Sustainable development ecological footprint

Ferguson, A., 1999. The logical foundations of ecological footprints. Environment, Development and Sustainability 1, 149—156. 

Environmental chemistry needs to be distinguished from its later offshoot, green chemistry. As environmental chemistry developed, it tended to emphasize the detection and mitigation of pollutants, the study of the beneficial and adverse effects of various chemicals on the environment, and how the beneficial effects could be enhanced and the adverse eliminated or attenuated. Green chemistry, however, focuses on how to create sustainable, safe, and nonpolluting chemicals in ways that minimize the ecological footprint of the processes. Some scholars define this field simply as sustainable chemistry. 

With entire economies based on seUing oil and natural gas to fund massive, rapid growth and a per capita ecological footprint larger than the United States, the United Arab Emirates is currently one of the most unsustainable places in the world. Are Masdar City and the Masdar Initiative a first step toward genuine sustainable development in the Gulf, or a very clever... 

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