York-produced data helps to tell impactful stories

Fifty years ago the Club of Rome called for a transition from growth to equilibrium, as they demonstrated through The Limits to Growth that humanity could not sustain another hundred  years of growth in material consumption, pollution, and population.  Since then, humanity’s Ecological Footprint has doubled and overshot the planet’s carrying capacity. York University’s Ecological

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Measuring and managing Canada's use of the Earth's regenerative carrying capacity

The Canadian and global challenge of living within the Earth's carrying capacity requires robust measures of this capacity and its use by humans to meaningfully inform policy. Currently, Canada does not employ any such accounting system to monitor transition towards a carbon neutral future. Various measures and measurement systems are used to quantify carrying capacity

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Developing the Ecological Footprint Research Initiative

Co-Principal Investigators: Martin Bunch and Peter Victor. Funding: SSHRC Insight Development Grant/SSHRC Partnership Grant. Term: 2020-. The Ecological Footprint Initiative is a partnership between the Global Footprint Network and York researchers who are working to enhance the accounting methodology and improve data on which the concept of ecological footprint is based. The goal is for

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Poetic musings on life during pandemic

Between 2009 and 2015, FES/DIGHR postdoctoral  fellow, Mark Terry, produced feature films for the United Nations (UN) reporting on the climate research in the polar regions: The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning and The Polar Explorer, both films back-to-back winners of the Audience Choice Award at the American Conservation Film Festival. The films broke new

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Developing the Ecological Footprint Research Initiative

The Ecological Footprint Initiative is a partnership between the Global Footprint Network and York researchers who are working to enhance the accounting methodology and improve data on which the concept of ecological footprint is based. The goal is for York to become the global data center for the National Ecological Footprint Accounts, starting in 2019,

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Assessment of Ecological Footprint Methodology

Statistics Canada The workshop examined the conceptual basis, methodology, data requirements and availability for estimating Canada ecological footprint. It aimed to critically review the conceptual foundation, assumption and methodology of Canadian ecological footprint. Researcher: PI: Peter Victor Project Theme: Resource Management