1. Perspectives on Sustainability: Renewable Resources, Trade, and WTO Governance
Measuring resource security with the Ecological Footprint

2. Services from the biosphere
Human Activities
Resource
Provision
Waste
Absorption

3. Sustainable Levels of Activity
Resource
Extraction
Resource
Regeneration r r ≤
Ecological Footprint
Biocapacity
Waste
Production
Waste
Absorption r r

4. Impacts of Unsustainability
Happens local to production
Directly contributes to reduced ability to produce resources
Resource degradation
Waste accumulation
(and corresponding impacts)

5. } { Resource Flows Production Consumption Imports Exports
Country X
Consumption
Economic Activity
Country Y
Country Z } {
Imports
Exports

6. Resource Security Production Imports Sustainability
For each nation, it is a function of:
Production
Imports
Sustainability
Domestic Production
Foreign Production
Domestic Supply
Foreign Supply

7. Global Footprint Network
Offer multiple products, including:
Traditional
Extended
National Footprint Accounts
Consumption Activity Footprints
Commodity Footprint Intensities
Sector-level Output Footprints
Embodied Biocapacity in Trade

8. Resource Security
Resource insecure
Resource secure

9. Conclusions
Assessments of resource security require examination of both domestic policies and trade policies
Global Footprint Network offers quantified data on exposure to biological resource degradation
Work is underway to provide tools with which to assess policy impacts on resource security
Partnership between resource accountants and trade experts to provide multilateral policy solutions to resource security