Biocapacity—Premise of Sustainable Development in the European Space

Rodica-Manuela Gogonea, Simona Ghita () and Andreea Simona Saseanu
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Rodica-Manuela Gogonea: Department of Statistics and Econometrics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 010552 Bucharest, Romania
Andreea Simona Saseanu: Department of Business, Consumer Sciences and Quality Management, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 010374 Bucharest, Romania

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 3, 1-26

Abstract: The contemporary lifestyle, based on unsustainable consumption patterns, leads to an orientation of the society towards the development and application of sustainable development strategies and policies. The comparative analysis of the ecological footprint and biocapacity allows one to study the interaction between human activities and environment, through the biocapacity reserve or deficit. In this context, this article carries out a complex analysis of the biocapacity reserve/deficit, as a latent variable that quantifies sustainability, viewed through a selection of determinants, from which three main components have been extracted: A component of education and social exclusion, a component of economic development, innovation, and environment, and a demographic component. These were transformed—through a multiple linear regression model—into exogenous variables with high explanatory power over the variation of the biocapacity reserve/deficit and constituted the tools in identifying behavioral patterns of the European countries and a set of measures leading to the sustainability of the ecological reserve.

Keywords: ecological footprint; biocapacity; biocapacity reserve/deficit; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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