National responsibility for ecological breakdown: a fair-shares assessment of resource use, 1970–2017
Hickel, Jason ; O'Neill, Daniel W. ; Fanning, Andrew L. ; Zoomkawala, Huzaifa
2022
6
4
E342-E349
natural resources ; ecology ; sustainable development ; responsibility
Environment
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00044-4
English
Bibliogr.
"Human impacts on earth-system processes are overshooting several planetary boundaries, driving a crisis of ecological breakdown. This crisis is being caused in large part by global resource extraction, which has increased dramatically over the past half century. We propose a novel method for quantifying national responsibility for ecological breakdown by assessing nations' cumulative material use in excess of equitable and sustainable boundaries."
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