Measuring what matters: Biocapacity and ecological footprint
![Participants of the joint Global Footprint Network and York University workshop (Photo courtesy of Martin J. Bunch, PhD)](https://www.natureconservancy.ca/assets/images/blog/oct-workshop-global-footprint-network-thumb.jpg)
Participants of the joint Global Footprint Network and York University workshop (Photo courtesy of Martin J. Bunch, PhD)
The most-used measure of a country’s progress is its gross domestic product (GDP) — the value of the goods and services produced over a period of time, such as a year. A huge drawback of GDP, however, is that it does not fully reflect...