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biocapacity: a standalone construct

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Sustainability science

the capacity of ecosystems to produce resources and absorb wastes, compared with human demand in footprint accounting.

In sustainability science, biocapacity refers to the capacity of ecosystems to produce resources and absorb wastes, compared with human demand in footprint accounting. This meaning comes from Wackernagel (2002) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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References

Wackernagel, M., Schulz, N. B., Deumling, D., Linares, A. C., Jenkins, M., Kapos, V., Monfreda, C., Loh, J., Myers, N., Norgaard, R., & Randers, J. (2002). Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99(14), 9266-9271. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.142033699

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