https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index en-au 5 https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:50062 Wed 28 Feb 2024 14:46:39 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31947 2 emissions from the transport sector will increase the risks borne by society as a result of future global uncertainty, the uncertain timing of globally coordinated action on climate change and the timing of peak oil. We also find that the success of local policy is affected by the global future which prevails. The use of the Ecological Footprint allows policy to be informed by the consequences of both CO₂ emissions and increasing demand for land. The study provides a decision-making framework that allows local decision makers to make robust policy despite global uncertainty. This framework has wider applicability to other nations and/or subnational jurisdictions worldwide.]]> Wed 20 Jan 2021 17:16:01 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:32827 Wed 20 Jan 2021 16:41:45 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:51666 Wed 07 Feb 2024 15:19:52 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:8902 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:36:43 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:37808 (EF). Rather than depicting the current lack of sustainability that comes from estimating a footprint based on uptake of carbon emissions (the method used in EF accounting), our proposed "Renewable Energy Equivalent Footprint" (REEF) instead depicts a hypothetical world in which the electricity and fuel demands are met entirely from renewable energy. The analysis shows that current human energy demands could theoretically be met by renewable energy and remain within the biocapacity of one planet. However, with current technology there is no margin to leave any biocapacity for nature, leading to the investigation of two additional scenarios: (1) radical electrification of the energy supply, assuming 75% of final energy demand can be met with electricity, and (2) adopting technology in which electricity is used to convert atmospheric gases into synthetic fuel. The REEF demonstrates that a sustainable and desirable future powered by renewable energy: (i) may be possible, depending on the worldwide adoption of consumption patterns typical of several key exemplar countries; (ii) is highly dependent on major future technological development, namely electrification and synthetic fuels; and (iii) is still likely to require appropriation of a substantial, albeit hopefully sustainable, fraction of the world's forest area.]]> Fri 30 Apr 2021 10:04:36 AEST ]]>