How many light globes does it take to change a footprint?

Abstract

This work covers two key areas related to ecological footprint analysis. The first section covers issues related to the calculation of ecological footprints for the populations of two Statistical Subdivisions (SSDs) and Statistical Local Areas (SLAs) of Eastern Sydney, Australia. These were obtained by applying input-output analysis to population and expenditure data from the 1998-99 Household Expenditure Survey and the 1996 and 2001 Australian Census carried out by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The second section relates to linking results of the ecological footprint analysis to policy development, implementation and monitoring at a sub-regional level, namely the local government area of Randwick City in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia.