Readings from Global Footprint Network (1 hour)
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/footprint_basics_overview/ from which you can reach these other required readings (in the table of contents along the left margin)
- http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/footprint_science_introduction/
- http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/living_planet_report2/
- Read INTRODUCTION of Living Planet Report 2014 and scan the rest http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/living_planet_report2/
- http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/footprint_data_and_results/
- http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/methodology/ and
- Scan Section 3 of “Accounting for demand and supply of the Biosphere’s regenerative capacity: the National Footprint Accounts’ underlying methodology and framework” http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X12002968 (you will need to familiarize yourself with and exercise this methodology, at least in part, on your projects in the second half of the semester — so read more thoroughly as time allows before then)
- http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/application_standards/
- See the remaining sections (Licenses, Academic References, Glossary, and FAQ as necessary)