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Local authorities compared
The Stockholm
Environment Institute at York University has published reports on the
economic footprints of all the local authorities in Britain (counties,
boroughs etc). The data is from 2002, as published in the 2005
National Footprint Accounts, and includes food, energy, capital
investment, travel, consumables, government and other, services, housing
and holiday activities.
 The
average for the UK is 5.6 hectares per person*. There is
a clear correlation between the wealth of the inhabitants of each local
authority and the size of the ecological footprint: in general,
richer areas have larger footprints and poorer areas have smaller
footprints.
For details on how the footprint is made
up, and for the figures for other areas, please click
here, then register (free) and look for your county or borough.
The total figures for more areas will be added below shortly.
London:
Kensington & Chelsea (6.58)
Ham & Fulham (6.36)
Westminster (6.15)
Camden (6.13)
City of London (6.05)
Wandsworth (6.01)
Richmond u Thames (5.86)
Islington (5.78)
Lambeth (5.78)
Haringey (5.77)
Barnet (5.73)
Kingston u Thames (5.64)
Merton (5.61)
Ealing (5.57)
Bromley (5.55)
Hackney (5.54)
Lewisham (5.54)
Croydon (5.49)
Harrow (5.44)
Brent (5.41)
Redbridge (5.40)
Greenwich (5.39)
Sutton (5.38)
Tower Hamlets (5.37)
Havering (5.35)
Enfield (5.35)
Hounslow (5.32)
Waltham Forest (5.29)
Bexley (5.22)
Hillingdon (5.22)
Newham (5.16)
Barking & Dagenham (5.02) |
England:
St Albans (6.74)
Guildford (6.50)
Epsom & Ewell (6.50)
Windsor & Maidenhead (6.49)
Wigan (5.35)
Easington (5.08)Wales:
Ceredigion/Cardiganshire (5.58)
Cardiff (5.31)
Wrexham ( 5.10)
Bridgend ( 5.07)
Neath Port Talbot ( 5.01)
Rhondda Cynon Taff (4.99)
Torfaen ( 4.96)
Blaenau Gwent (4.80)
Merthyr Tydil (4.70)
Scotland:
City of Edinburgh (5.83)
City of Glasgow (5.29)
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Data:
Local authorities: Stockholm Environment Institute York, REAP website
- free but requires registration
* UK average: 2005
National Footprint Accounts published on the Global
Footprint Network website.
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