What is the advantage of aggregating different environmental impacts into one indicator?
With an aggregate indicator, such as the ecological footprint, it is easier to explore the connection between various ecological functions and how the various pressures on nature, such as biodiversity loss, erosion, water scarcity, CO2 accumulation interact. Alleviating the pressure on one ecosystem can merely shift the strain to another or, worse still, one impact may start to exacerbate another one.
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