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Investigating the overall ecological footprint of the University of British Columbia Point Grey Campus Food System

University of British Columbia. Sustainability Office

The following report explores the rationale, methodologies and assumptions to conduct an Ecological Footprint Analysis (EFA) of the UBC Point Grey campus which will aid future Land, Food, and Community III (LFC III) colleagues to perform an actual EFA at UBC. Our group explored the idea of performing an EFA of the UBC food system, but instead chose to focus on the entire UBC campus in the hopes that our work would help later groups identify and ameliorate the areas of largest contribution to UBC’s ecological footprint (EF). We saw that across the world, the universities that chose to conduct EFAs also focused on the entire campus and that the food system was a relatively small contributor to a campus’ EFA. We recommend that Rees and Wackernagel’s Consumption Land Use Matrix methodology be used to perform the EFA using the data collected from a variety of sources across campus. It is our belief that an EFA can become an important educational tool and a cornerstone of creating future sustainability programs and policies at UBC. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”

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University of British Columbia. AGSC 450; UBC Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (SEEDS) Student Report

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0132806

Land and Food Systems, Faculty of

Unreviewed

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