Mainstream competitiveness and international development analyses pay little attention to the significance of a country’s resource security for its economic performance. This paper challenges this neglect, examining the economic implications of countries resource dynamics, particularly for low-income countries. It explores typologies of resource patterns in the context of those countries’ economic prospects. To begin, the paper explains why it uses Ecological Footprint and biocapacity acc...| MDPI
Biocapacity stands for the regenerative capacity of our planet’s ecosystems. The biocapacity metric, therefore, quantifies the renewal rate of ecosystems around the globe. It tracks ecosystem’s inherent ability to renew biomass. This amount then can be compared to the amount of human demand on biocapacity, which is called people’s ecological footprint. Biocapacity accounting allows researchers […]| Global Footprint Network
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