Focus on Environmental Footprint Tools for Sustainability
Guest Editors
Allison M Leach University of New Hampshire, USA
James N Galloway University of Virginia, USA
Jana Compton Environmental Protection Agency, USA
Scope
Understanding and reducing the environmental impact of consumers—who are key decision-makers and stakeholders—crucial to increasing the sustainability and resilience of our communities. Environmental footprint tools connect consumers’ everyday resource consumption with the environmental pressure from those choices. Tools have been developed for different issues of environmental concern (e.g. carbon emissions, nitrogen losses, freshwater consumption, land use, phosphorus losses) and for multiple levels of consumers (e.g. individuals, institutions, watersheds, communities). In this special issue, we will focus on nitrogen footprint tools but we welcome submissions on other footprint research as well.
· Sibeal McCourt and Graham K MacDonald 2021 Environ. Res. Lett. 16 095007
Calculation of a food consumption nitrogen footprint for Germany
· Laura Klement et al 2021 Environ. Res. Lett. 16 075005
Virtual nitrogen and virtual water transfers embedded in food trade networks across the US
· Tasnuva Mahjabin et al 2021 Environ. Res. Lett. 16 045015
· Junko Shindo et al 2021 Environ. Res. Lett. 16 045003
· Sarah Messenger et al 2021 Environ. Res. Lett. 16 035014
· Akinori Mori et al 2020 Environ. Res. Lett. 15 125007
The U.S. consumer phosphorus footprint: where do nitrogen and phosphorus diverge?
· Geneviève S Metson et al 2020 Environ. Res. Lett. 15 105022
· Qingmei Wang et al 2020 Environ. Res. Lett. 15 105008
· Graham K MacDonald et al 2020 Environ. Res. Lett. 15 045008
The nitrogen footprint of organic food in the United States
· Laura Cattell Noll et al 2020 Environ. Res. Lett. 15 045004
Concealed nitrogen footprint in protein-free foods: an empirical example using oil palm products
· Kentaro Hayashi et al 2020 Environ. Res. Lett. 15 035006
Living within a One Planet reality: the contribution of personal Footprint calculators
· Andrea Collins et al 2020 Environ. Res. Lett. 15 025008
The environmental footprint of academic and student mobility in a large research-oriented university
· Julien Arsenault et al 2019 Environ. Res. Lett. 14 095001