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Humanity’s unsustainable environmental footprint

Science, 2014
Within the context of Earth’s limited natural resources and assimilation capacity, the current environmental footprint of humankind is not sustainable. Assessing land, water, energy, material, and other footprints along supply chains is paramount in understanding the sustainability, efficiency, and equity of resource use from the perspective of ...
Hoekstra, Arjen Ysbert   +1 more
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The Individuality of Human Footprints

Journal of Forensic Sciences, 1978
Abstract An aspect of human identification that has received scant attention from forensic anthropologists is the study of human feet and the footprints made by the feet. During the last ten years, I have worked with archaeologists from Washington University (St.
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Activity-footprints, pressures-footprints and effects-footprints – Walking the pathway to determining and managing human impacts in the sea

Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2020
Determining the overall effects of human activities on the estuaries, seas and coasts, as a precursor to marine management, requires quantifying three aspects. These are: (a) the area in which the human activities take place, (b) the area covered by the pressures generated by the activities on the prevailing habitats and species, in which pressures are
Elliott, Michael   +2 more
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Human footprint restricts ranges

Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2018
Human development is restricting animal movement within anthropogenic landscapes, with consequences for population- and ecosystem-level processes.
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Humanity's Ecological Footprint

Mediterranean Quarterly, 2006
Evaggelos G. Vallianatos, a former analyst with the US Environmental Protection Agency and a former visiting college professor, is the author of This Land Is Their Land: How Corporate Farms Threaten the World (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2006).
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A growing human footprint in the highlands

2017
Chapter 9 reviews the threats imposed by human activities to aquatic life at high altitude. High altitude regions of the inter-tropical belt are generally much more densely populated than their temperate counterparts. Therefore, they are directly affected by a number of human-related disturbances such as land use changes, water contamination, use and ...
Dean Jacobsen, Olivier Dangles
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Predictive value of human footprints in a forensic context

Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine, 1998
Previous work from the United States has shown close correlation between an individual's size and weight and predetermined measurements taken from his or her footprints. This study investigated the situation in a group of United Kingdom subjects, for which there is at present little data.
S L, Barker, J L, Scheuer
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