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Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity: what urban economics leaves out

William E. ReesSchool of Community and Regional Planning, UBC, 6333 Memorial Road, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z2
1992en
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Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity: what urban economics leaves out uses the concepts of human carrying capacity and natural capital to develop a framework to evaluate each city's "ecological footprint". It also argues that prevailing economic assumptions regarding urbanization and the sustainability of cities must be revised in light of global ecological change.

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