Data and Results
Global Footprint Network’s 2008 Edition National Accounts provide comprehensive new data on humanity’s pressure on resources, how that compares across 201 nations, and how it relates to the planet’s capacity to meet these demands. Released every two years using internationally-approved methodology and data sources, the accounts seek to quantify the relationship between human affairs and the planet’s finite resources. They are produced by Global Footprint Network on behalf of its partners and others in the world community who wish to use these results.
2008 Data Tables contain the Ecological Footprint and the biocapacity results for the year 2005 for 150 nations with populations over one million as calculated in the 2008 Edition of the National Footprint Accounts.
National Footprint Accounts Licenses and the most recent National Footprint Accounts calculation files and source data are available for both commercial use and non-commercial review under license. Free Academic Editions are available for personal and research purposes. Click here to learn more about data licensing.
Ecological Footprint Atlas 2008
The full results of the 2008 National Accounts calculations are presented in The Ecological Footprint Atlas 2008. The Atlas presents Ecological Footprint and biocapacity results for 201 countries, including 150 whose populations exceed 1 million.
The Atlas explains the purpose behind Ecological Footprint Analysis, the research question it addresses, basic concepts and science underlying the Accounts, and the method used for calculating the results. It also describes ways Ecological Footprint Analysis is currently
being applied in a variety of domains. For the technical reader, the Atlas includes more detailed notes about calculation of the results, explains recent advances to enhance the consistency, reliability and resolution of the National Footprint Accounts, and reviews the evolution of the National Footprint Accounts methodology.
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Additional Resources
Calculation Methodology for the National Footprint Accounts, 2008 Edition presents a detailed description of the calculations used to derive the National Footprint Accounts. It serves as an introduction to Ecological Footprint accounting, with particular reference to the 2008 National Footprint Accounts.
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Guidebook to the 2008 National Footprint Accounts describes the implementation of the Ecological Footprint methodology in the 2008 edition of the National Footprint Accounts. It provides an in depth description of each part of the 2008 NFA workbook, along with detailed descriptions of calculations and data sources.
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Living Planet Report 2008
Every two years, Global Footprint Network, along with WWF and the Zoological Society of London produce the Living Planet Report, which uses complementary measures to explore the changing state of biodiversity and of human consumption. One of these measures is Ecological Footprint – the amount of productive land and sea area it takes to produce the resources a population consumes and absorb its waste, primarily carbon dioxide.
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