Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production: From a Planet to a Pixel
| Autor: | Suman Paudel, Christopher L. Lant, Gustavo A. Ovando-Montejo |
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| Přispěvatelé: | MDPI AG |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Natural resource economics Geography Planning and Development Population TJ807-830 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law TD194-195 01 natural sciences Renewable energy sources Ecosystem services GE1-350 education 0105 earth and related environmental sciences education.field_of_study Ecological footprint Environmental effects of industries and plants Land use Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Primary production Metropolitan area Environmental sciences Geography ecological footprint Sustainability Spatial ecology human appropriation of net primary production planetary limits |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 8606, p 8606 (2021) UAES Publications Sustainability Volume 13 Issue 15 |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su13158606 |
| Popis: | Human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) is a substantial improvement upon 20th century attempts at developing an ecological footprint indicator because of its measurability in relation to net primary production, its close relationship to other key footprint measures, such as carbon and water, and its spatial specificity. This paper explores HANPP across four geographical scales: through literature review, the planet through reanalysis of existing data, variations among the world’s countries and through novel analyses, U.S. counties and the 30 m pixel scale for one U.S. county. Results show that HANPP informs different sustainability narratives at different scales. At the planetary scale, HANPP is a critical planetary limit that improves upon areal land use indicators. At the country macroscale, HANPP indicates the degree to which meeting the needs of the domestic population for provisioning ecosystem services (food, feed, biofiber, biofuel) presses against the domestic ecological endowment of net primary production. At the county mesoscale, HANPP reveals the dependency of metropolitan areas upon regional specialized rural forestry and agroecosystems to which they are teleconnected through trade and transport infrastructures. At the pixel microscale, HANPP provides the basis for deriving spatial patterns of remaining net primary production upon which biodiversity and regulatory and cultural ecosystem services are dependent. HANPP is thus a sustainability indicator that can fulfill similar needs as carbon, water and other footprints. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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