Comparison of two biophysical indicators under different landscape complexity

Ecological Footprint (EF) and Energy-Landscape Integrated Analysis (ELIA) estimate human societies' imprint on nature. Both methods aim to provide overviews regarding biophysical society-nature interactions. The purposes of this article are to compare how EF and ELIA conceptualize human-nature...

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Autores: Yousefi, Maryam, Darvishi, Asef, Tello, Enric, Barghjelveh, Shahindokht, Dinan, Naghmeh Mobarghaee, Marull, Joan
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Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
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Palabra clave:Petjada ecològica
Desenvolupament sostenible
Influència de l'home en la natura
Ecological footprint
Sustainable development
Effect of human beings on nature
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spelling Comparison of two biophysical indicators under different landscape complexityYousefi, MaryamDarvishi, AsefTello, EnricBarghjelveh, ShahindokhtDinan, Naghmeh MobarghaeeMarull, JoanPetjada ecològicaDesenvolupament sostenibleInfluència de l'home en la naturaEcological footprintSustainable developmentEffect of human beings on natureEcological Footprint (EF) and Energy-Landscape Integrated Analysis (ELIA) estimate human societies' imprint on nature. Both methods aim to provide overviews regarding biophysical society-nature interactions. The purposes of this article are to compare how EF and ELIA conceptualize human-nature relationships, and what results they produce when applied to the same landscape scale, in order to consider how their methodological similarities and differences can account for Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC). This conceptual comparison acknowledges the 'ecocentric' perspective of EF adopted to relate end consumption baskets of human populations with the land biocapacities, and the 'social metabolism' perspective of ELIA to take into account biophysical transformations and spatial distribution of matter-energy flows in different land uses. The two methods were applied to a case study of 46 municipalities in the Qazvin Province (Iran). These municipalities were grouped according to the values of the two methods by cluster analysis and correlated with landscape heterogeneity. The correlation analysis demonstrates that EF and ELIA indicators only overlap when landscape structure is highly simplified. However, lower accuracy of EF compared to ELIA as an indicator of socioecological impacts of different types of agricultural practices is confirmed. Although EF remains a useful indicator of unequal appropriation of Earth's biocapacity, it does so by taking average patterns of food production and consumption as given. To distinguish environmentally friendly from degrading practices, more precise indicators at the landscape level such as ELIA are required for farmers, consumers and policymakers to choose more sustainable options in their decisions.Elsevier B.V.2021info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/175337Articles publicats en revistes (Història Econòmica, Institucions, Política i Economia Mundial)reponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaInglésReproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107439Ecological Indicators, 2021, vol. 124, p. 107439https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107439cc-by (c) Yousefi et. al., 2021http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/1753372026-05-27T06:46:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Comparison of two biophysical indicators under different landscape complexity
title Comparison of two biophysical indicators under different landscape complexity
spellingShingle Comparison of two biophysical indicators under different landscape complexity
Yousefi, Maryam
Petjada ecològica
Desenvolupament sostenible
Influència de l'home en la natura
Ecological footprint
Sustainable development
Effect of human beings on nature
title_short Comparison of two biophysical indicators under different landscape complexity
title_full Comparison of two biophysical indicators under different landscape complexity
title_fullStr Comparison of two biophysical indicators under different landscape complexity
title_full_unstemmed Comparison of two biophysical indicators under different landscape complexity
title_sort Comparison of two biophysical indicators under different landscape complexity
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Yousefi, Maryam
Darvishi, Asef
Tello, Enric
Barghjelveh, Shahindokht
Dinan, Naghmeh Mobarghaee
Marull, Joan
author Yousefi, Maryam
author_facet Yousefi, Maryam
Darvishi, Asef
Tello, Enric
Barghjelveh, Shahindokht
Dinan, Naghmeh Mobarghaee
Marull, Joan
author_role author
author2 Darvishi, Asef
Tello, Enric
Barghjelveh, Shahindokht
Dinan, Naghmeh Mobarghaee
Marull, Joan
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author
author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Petjada ecològica
Desenvolupament sostenible
Influència de l'home en la natura
Ecological footprint
Sustainable development
Effect of human beings on nature
topic Petjada ecològica
Desenvolupament sostenible
Influència de l'home en la natura
Ecological footprint
Sustainable development
Effect of human beings on nature
description Ecological Footprint (EF) and Energy-Landscape Integrated Analysis (ELIA) estimate human societies' imprint on nature. Both methods aim to provide overviews regarding biophysical society-nature interactions. The purposes of this article are to compare how EF and ELIA conceptualize human-nature relationships, and what results they produce when applied to the same landscape scale, in order to consider how their methodological similarities and differences can account for Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC). This conceptual comparison acknowledges the 'ecocentric' perspective of EF adopted to relate end consumption baskets of human populations with the land biocapacities, and the 'social metabolism' perspective of ELIA to take into account biophysical transformations and spatial distribution of matter-energy flows in different land uses. The two methods were applied to a case study of 46 municipalities in the Qazvin Province (Iran). These municipalities were grouped according to the values of the two methods by cluster analysis and correlated with landscape heterogeneity. The correlation analysis demonstrates that EF and ELIA indicators only overlap when landscape structure is highly simplified. However, lower accuracy of EF compared to ELIA as an indicator of socioecological impacts of different types of agricultural practices is confirmed. Although EF remains a useful indicator of unequal appropriation of Earth's biocapacity, it does so by taking average patterns of food production and consumption as given. To distinguish environmentally friendly from degrading practices, more precise indicators at the landscape level such as ELIA are required for farmers, consumers and policymakers to choose more sustainable options in their decisions.
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