Sustainable Management Metropolia, Business Ethics IP week.
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Sustainable ManagementMetropolia, Business Ethics IP week.
4 Ecological Footprint; measuring human impact
The Big Question
• Can Human Development go hand in hand with Sustainable Lifestyle?
• For Human Development we need Economic Development
• Economic Development leads to higher Environmental Impact ( Ecological Footprint)
• From world values survey 1990, 1996
• Under 10k US$ per capita, more income is very effective in increasing Life Expectancy
Relation LE and Income
• From world values survey 1990, 1996
• Direct question: would you say you are:
• Very happy• Quite happy• Not very happy• Not at all happy• Don’t know
• Under 9K US$, increase in income adds a lot to subjective feeling of happiness
Relation EF and Income
Econ. Dev. needed to become Sustainable
• Poor countries more involved in survival, low level of well-being
• Rich countries are involved in life-styles (like sustainability), high well-being
Increase in footprint
Ecological Footprint per Country
Human Development Index (HDI)
• 3 dimensions of Human Development• Long, healthy life (life expectancy at birth)• Knowledge (literacy and education enrolment)• A decent standard of living (GDP in PPP)
1Norway 0,9712Australia 0,9703Iceland 0,9694Canada 0,9665Ireland 0,9656Netherlands 0,9647Sweden 0,9638France 0,9619Switzerland 0,960
10Japan 0,96012Finland 0,95913United States 0,95615Spain 0,95517Belgium 0,95322Germany 0,94771Russian Federation 0,81779Turkey 0,80692China 0,772
134India 0,612147Kenya 0,541151Tanzania 0,530164Zambia 0,481181Afghanistan 0,352182Niger 0,340
Human Development Index in 2007
Trends of HDI and Earth Capacity ratio for 93 Countries between 1975-2003
Conclusion
• Despite growing adoption of sustainable development as an explicit policy goal, most countries do not meet Human Development and Ecological Capacity minimum requirements