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Perspectives on Sustainability: Renewable Resources, Trade, and WTO Governance Measuring resource security with the Ecological Footprint.

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1 Perspectives on Sustainability: Renewable Resources, Trade, and WTO Governance Measuring resource security with the Ecological Footprint

2 Services from the biosphere Human Activities Resource Provision Waste Absorption

3 Sustainable Levels of Activity Resource Extraction Waste Production Resource Regeneration Waste Absorption r r r r ≤ Ecological FootprintBiocapacity

4 Impacts of Unsustainability Resource degradationWaste accumulation (and corresponding impacts) Happens local to production Directly contributes to reduced ability to produce resources

5 Resource Flows Production Country X Consumption Economic Activity Country Y Country Z Country X Country Y Country Z }{ ImportsExports

6 Resource Security For each nation, it is a function of: Production Imports Sustainability Domestic Production Foreign Production Domestic Supply Foreign Supply

7 Global Footprint Network Offer multiple products, including: National Footprint Accounts Commodity Footprint Intensities Consumption Activity Footprints Sector-level Output Footprints Embodied Biocapacity in Trade TraditionalExtended

8 Resource insecure Resource secure Resource Security

9 Conclusions Assessments of resource security require examination of both domestic policies and trade policies Global Footprint Network offers quantified data on exposure to biological resource degradation Work is underway to provide tools with which to assess policy impacts on resource security Partnership between resource accountants and trade experts to provide multilateral policy solutions to resource security


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