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Waikato Region Ecological Footprint 2004

TR 2006/50
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Report: TR 2006/50

Author: Market Economics

Abstract

This report estimates the ecological footprint of the Waikato region for the year ending March 2004. The ecological footprint measures the total amount of productive land (in hectares) required to support a given population. It is increasingly being used as an indicator of sustainability performance after being developed by Mathias Wackernagel and William Rees in the early 1990s.

An input-output framework based on Bicknell et al. (1998) and extended by McDonald (2000, 2001, 2001a), McDonald and Patterson (2003, 2004), and Patterson and McDonald (2002) is used in this report to calculate Waikato region’s ecological footprint.

Waikato Region Ecological Footprint 2004 [PDF, 249 KB]