National Ecological Footprint and GDP Growth

Tracking Absolute Decoupling in 36 Countries Worldwide

By IBM Watson AI XPRIZE - Environment [source]

About this dataset

This dataset, National Footprint Accounts (NFAs): 2009-2013, provides incredible insights into the relationship between GDP growth and natural resource consumption. It allows us to gain a clearer understanding of how economic growth is coupled with consumptions of ecological resources over this five year period. This data was obtained from the Worldbank’s World Development Indicators and the United Nations data sets.

It reveals valuable metrics including Ecological Footprint per capita for countries from 1961-2013 in global hectares (gha). Furthermore, it encompasses comprehensive figures such as total ecological footprint, carbon footprint and areas used for crop production, grazing land, forestry and fishing grounds along with built up land purposes as well. The degree of decoupling – defined by percent growth in GDP minus percent growth in EF – helps us ascertain which countries achieved absolute decoupling by having an increased GDP rate while simultaneously reducing their Ecological Footprint thus encouraging a more sustainable existence and development through their economy’s capabilities

In addition to visualizing our data through scatterplots that plot the relationship between these metrics over time; we highlight through maps nations ranking of total EF, GDP & EF Growth in both directions (both negative & positive values), Percentage change in each metric with respect to 2009 i.e., DDelta_P ,EFDelta_P ,GDPDelta_P etc; Quality Scores and much more! This intriguing set offers an ample opportunity for profound exploration into relations among nations based on resource management practices - something that will surely have reverberating effects even further out into generations ahead if utilized appropriately enough!

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Research Ideas

• Using this dataset, governments can assess the efficiency of their economic growth and analyze whether it is coupled with an increase or decrease in the Ecological Footprint left by them. This will allow them to identify areas that need improvement and help implement policies to put their economic development on a sustainable path.
• Businesses can use this dataset to measure its supply chain’s sustainability performance in terms of their Ecological Footprint relative to their economic growth, thereby helping make optimal decisions related both short-term profitability and long-term sustainability goals.
• By comparing various countries’ data points, researchers could develop insights into which strategies work best at achieving absolute decoupling (economic growth alongside decreased environmental impact). They could look for potential indicators that are associated with success or lack thereof for different types of countries/regions and share those insights to influence policy decision makers

Acknowledgements

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License

License: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) - You are free to: - Share - copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially. - Adapt - remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. - You must: - Give appropriate credit - Provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. - ShareAlike - You must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

Columns

File: EF_GDP(constant2010USD).csv | Column name | Description | |:------------------|:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Country | The name of the country. (String) | | EF2013 | The ecological footprint in 2013. (Float) | | EF2009 | The ecological footprint in 2009. (Float) | | GDP2013 | The GDP in 2013. (Float) | | GDP2009 | The GDP in 2009. (Float) | | **...