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- Daily Sustainable Life -
SISUM Workshop
-Student Initiative for a SustainableUniversity Maastricht
-stimulate environmental and social responsibility on both the university and the student side
-incorporate sustainability into daily life
www.studver.unimaas.nl/ump/
Ecological Footprint
• metaphor used to depict the amount of land and water area a human population needs – to provide the resources required to support itself – and to absorb its wastes
• used to explore the sustainability of individual lifestyles, goods and services, organisations, industry sectors, neighbourhoods, cities, regions and nations
> an indicator of environmental sustainability
Total Biocapacity
Total Biocapacity
Industrial countries
Developing countries
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Sustainability level
today future
Contraction & Convergence
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