Scientific assessment and evaluation of the indicator “Ecological Footprint“ | Umweltbundesamt

The Ecological Footprint has proven one of the most successful indicators for communicating the concept of environmental sustainability and the physical limits of our planet. In the past decade the Ecological Footprint has developed into one of the most important measures for resource use in production and consumption at the international level and it is used by a large number of institutions for evaluating impacts of human activities on the environment.