Living within a Fair Share Ecological Footprint

Robert and Brenda Vale are Professorial Research Fellows in the School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. They share common research interests in ecological footprinting and sustainable building design, and are both currently working on the new Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (FRST) project to deliver ecological footprinting and systems approaches to sustainable development of communities.

• Part 1: Introduction 1. Footprints and Fair Earth Share Part 2: What does Living within a Fair Earth Share Mean? 2.1: Personal Footprint 2. Food 3. Domestic Travel 4. Consumer Goods 5. The Dwelling 6. Tourism 2.2: Collective Footprint 7. Infrastructure 8. Government 9. Services Part 3: Footprints in the Past 10. A Study of Wellington in the 1950s Part 4: Footprints in the Present 11. A Study of China 12. A Study of Suberban Thailand 13. Kampung Naga, Indonesia 14. A Study of Hanoi, Vietnam 15. A Study of Suburban New Zealand 16. The Hockerton Housing Project, England 17. Education for Lower Footprints 18. Footprints and Income 19. Sustainable Urban Form Part 5: Conclusions 20. "I wouldn't Start from Here..."

"Informed, informative, scholarly, insightful, thoughtful, and thought-provoking... [A] vitally necessary addition to professional, academic, corporate, and governmental library Environmental Studies reference collections." - The Midwest Book Review, June 2013"‘Sustainability’ is a term that is bandied about all the time, casually applied to anything that is slightly better than the usual, however marginal the improvement might be. This is a book that corrects that mis-use, setting out exactly what a sustainable lifestyle actually entails." – Jeremy Williams, Make Wealth History"The key contribution of this collection is the provision of extensive, detailed comparative assessments of the relative ecological footprint associated with different dimensions of our resource consumption, providing at times surprising insights into the comparative impact of, for example, automobile versus air travel, or the ecological footprint reduction that could be achieved with a lowering of meat consumption." – Canadian Studies in Population, Debra J. Davidson, University of Alberta