Policy review on decoupling : development of indicators to assess decoupling of economic development and environmental pressure in the EU-25 and AC-3 countries

摘要: Summary The figure below shows the GALU for EU-15 and ACC-13 in comparison with world’s availability of agricultural land total arable plus permanent crops particular. From this picture, it seems that global use EU ACC is line available each human being world. However, several arguments (as discussed before) speak rather an orientation towards instead area. With reference, EU’s ACC’s GALUs would exceed limits on a per capita basis. Furthermore, both, land, declining more rapidly than ACC. Also, intensity (in terms fertilizer pesticides etc.) should be taken into consideration as well. This may put different perspective mere hectares show.