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Material footprint is the total amount of raw material required for the production of a good (product or service). In other words, it is the total amount of natural resources demanded to sustain activities of our economic and social systems.
Material Footprint
Introduction
The Needs for Environmental Indicators
The concept of material footprint (MF) was born as a result of several events. With the rise of the environmental movement in the second half of the twentieth century, our attention has steered toward urgent issues of human survival. The environmental movement mentions the rise of discussions about ecologic affairs, in face of the concerns regarding ecological imbalances and their reflexes in human livelihoods. These problems were not new: environmental issues have always been present in our lives, but at that moment the rising intensity caught the public eye (Muller 2007; Galli et al. 2013)....
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Dall’Orsoletta, F., Matthews, B. (2020). Material Footprint and its Role in Agenda 2030. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Decent Work and Economic Growth. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71058-7_73-1
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