Ecosystem footprints: Land Use Impacts and their Socioeconomic Determinants
Informations
- Funding country
Norway- Acronym
- -
- URL
- -
- Start date
- 1/1/2016
- End date
- 12/31/2019
- Budget
- 802,698 EUR
Fundings
| Name | Role | Start | End | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MILJØFORSK - Environmental Research for a Green Transition | Grant | - | - | 802,694 EUR |
Abstract
Environmental footprints allow consumers, governments and business to understand the pressure they put on the environment through their supply chain. Current models calculate footprints by following resource from primary producers to final consumers through billions of global supply chains. The goal of this project is to explore how to connect these resource accounts, as well as the economic models built on top of them, to spatially explicit environmental data. Layering in environmental impact maps makes it possible to do combined assessments that consider both resource use/production activity and observed environmental impacts. The results of this project can help power tools allowing households, businesses, and policymakers will be able to see where environmental impacts of their decisions occur. Opportunities thus become available to involve actors all along the supply chain to participate in remediating their environmental impact. This way we allow consumers in Norway to link the environmental impact of their product all the way back to the farmer in Brazil. This project pioneered new research methods on linking spatial environmental impact data to databases of global supply chains (MRIO tables). The project resulted in 16 peer-reviewed scientific articles, 14 lectures and presentations, and research results were featured in mass media including being heighted in Science and Nature Climate Change, and written about in National Geographic, Scientific American, TIME, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Discover Magazine, AFP (in several languages), Le Monde, FAZ, El Mundo, and other international press. The research begun in this project is continuing in the FRIPRO-funded BYMARKA project. Where this project aimed to link Spatial databases to the origin point of supply chains, the new project aims to detail in higher resolution where those supply chains and and what consumers in cities can do to reduce their total footprint.