Box 14. The Personal Footprint Calculator
The food category of final demand includes all food and beverages purchased for consumption at home. With additional information, food can be broken down into plant-based, which only places demand on cropland, and animal-based, which places demand on both cropland and grazing land.
Shelter The shelter category includes both the rental and ownership of land and structures for housing. This category also includes maintenance of the dwelling, water and sanitation services, and electricity, gas, and other fuels used in the home.
Transport The transport category includes the purchase of private transport vehicles (motor cars, motorcycles, bicycles), maintenance and repair of these vehicles, and the fuels used to operate them. This category also includes the fares for public transportation, such as trains, buses, and aircraft.
Japan’s Ecological Footprint: Household demand
In short, the main contributor for Japan’s Ecological Footprint is daily Footprint of household; this means that lifestyle choices actually have great potential to moderate Japan’s Ecological Footprint. Indeed, household decisions can catalyze large scale shifts in production process in business sectors, driving them towards high production efficiency and environmentally sound products.
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JAPAN’S ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT
Ecological Footprints of household consumption category vary widely depending on economic efficiency and life style. For example, 61.1 percent of India’s Ecological Footprint is from food demand. Poland and the United States have higher housing Footprints (22.1 percent, and 21.9 percent, respectively).
Goods The Personal Footprint Calculator allows individuals to determine the area of land required to support their demands, and to highlight areas where they could reduce their Footprint. Developed with the aid of in-country experts and national statistical data, each calculator is unique for the country. Japan is a recent addition to the suite of calculators1, which have attracted over one million visitors so far.
The goods category covers a broad range of purchased physical items not covered in the other categories. These include clothing and footwear, home furnishings and appliances, communications and entertainment equipment, and tobacco.
Services The services category covers purchased services not included in the other categories, such as medical services, education, catering services, insurance, and personal care.
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More detail on the categories used to disaggregate household consumption can be found through the United Nations Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose (COICOP) notes2.