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A ‘One Planet Fair Share’ Community? NZ Footprint Project: The Ecological Footprint of Kiwi Lifestyles and Urban Form
Ella Susanne Lawton Robert Vale Brenda Vale Maggie Lawton
The Project How will New Zealand cope in a future world with increasingly scarce resources?
‘One Planet’ Urban Form ‘Fair Share’ Lifestyle
• WWF. (2008). Living Planet Report 2008. Switzerland: World Wildlife Foundation International. • Boisvert, A., Leung, P., Mackrael, K., Park, C., & Purcell, M. (2009). Planning Guide for Sustainability ‐ A Starter Guide (New Zealand). In L. Roberts & S. Henry (Eds.). Christchurch.
‘Fair Earth Share’
Project Framework
NOW ‐ community and individual footprints
‘Fair share ‘One Planet Fair share’ Footprint Footprint Footprint
The Project Aim: Provide knowledge on how to lower the Ecological Footprints that make up human living patterns, in order to guide policies and practices for robust future settlement development. Outcomes: Tools for use by local communities Community engagement and education Long term community strategies towards sustainability Three year initial FRST funding Collaborative, engaging, purposeful – >4 communities
Ecological Footprint: Supply “[a] measure of how much productive land and water an individual, a city, a country, or humanity requires to produce the resources it consumes and to absorb the waste it generates
Demand
Footprint Breakdown Category
Components
Food and Drink Food at home and eating out Travel
Car, bus, train and air travel
Consumer Goods
Clothes, computers , tvs, books, furniture, appliances
Holidays
Holidays at home and abroad
Energy
Energy used in the home
Housing
House building, maintenance and repairs
Infrastructure
Motorways, bridges, railways, stadia
Government
Consumables and durables for local and central government
Services
Water, phone, post, hospitals, education, finance, police etc
(Collins, Flynn & Netherwood, 2005; Vale and Vale, 2009)
Household Footprint related to behaviour and lifestyles Household Footprint related to the Household Environment Collective Footprint related to local and central govt and services
Welsh Case Study “The challenge is for the people of Wales to lead happy, healthy, prosperous lives within their fair share of Earth’s resources.”
Drivers of Footprints Results of community footprints Dense urban Urban Urban – rural Rural
8 Tribes profiling Caldwell, J., & Brown, C. (2007). 8 Tribes ‐ The Hidden Classes of New Zealand (First ed.). Wellington: Wicked Little Books.
Footprint Breakdown Category
Components
Food and Drink Food at home and eating out Travel
Car, bus, train and air travel
Consumer Goods
Clothes, computers , tvs, books, furniture, appliances
Holidays
Holidays at home and abroad
Energy
Energy used in the home
Housing
House building, maintenance and repairs
Infrastructure
Motorways, bridges, railways, stadia
Government
Consumables and durables for local and central government
Services
Water, phone, post, hospitals, education, finance, police etc
(Collins, Flynn & Netherwood, 2005)
Household Footprint related to behaviour and lifestyles Household Footprint related to the Household Environment Collective Footprint related to local and central govt and services
Your ‘Share’
Vale, R., & Vale, B. (2010). Your (Carbon?) Ration Book. Paper presented at the Sustainable Building 2010 (SB10). Retrieved from http://www.sb10presentations.co.nz/
Passenger Transport
Vale, R., & Vale, B. (2010). Your (Carbon?) Ration Book. Paper presented at the Sustainable Building 2010 (SB10). Retrieved from http://www.sb10presentations.co.nz/
Fair Share Wellington Travel
Vale, R., & Vale, B. (2010). Your (Carbon?) Ration Book. Paper presented at the Sustainable Building 2010 (SB10). Retrieved from http://www.sb10presentations.co.nz/
Discussion EF Methodology limitations Scenario Development Use in local govt policy and planning Community engagement
Ella Susanne Lawton
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QUESTIONS?
