Table 2 Conversions from minimum per capita access requirements to per capita pressures on critical Earth systems for 2018
From: Impacts of meeting minimum access on critical earth systems amidst the Great Inequality
Per capita pressure on Earth system domains | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Access domain | Access level | Value | Climate (tCO2e cap−1 yr−1) | Water—blue (m3 cap−1 yr−1) | Land (ha cap−1) | Nutrients—P (kgP2O5 cap−1 yr−1) | Nutrients—N (kgN cap−1 yr−1) |
Energy (kWh cap−1 yr−1) | 1 | 74.5 | 0.04 | 0.16 | 4.57 × 10−8 | ||
2 | 255 | 0.13 | 0.54 | 1.57 × 10−7 | |||
Water (l cap−1 d−1) | 1 | 50 | 0.15 | 18.25 | 1.82 × 10−6 | ||
2 | 100 | 0.31 | 36.50 | 3.96 × 10−6 | |||
Food (kcal cap−1 d−1) | 1 | 2,100 | 1.60 | 82.51 | 1.42 × 10−1 | 1.1 | 3.1 |
2 | 2,500 | 1.91 | 98.23 | 1.69 × 10−1 | 1.4 | 3.7 | |
Infrastructure—housing (m2 cap−1) | 1 | 7 | 0.30 | 5.97 | 2.69 × 10−4 | ||
2 | 15 | 0.65 | 12.80 | 5.77 × 10−4 | |||
Infrastructure—transport (pkm cap−1 yr−1) | 1 | 3,500 | 0.36 | ||||
2 | 4,500 | 0.46 | |||||
Total pressure | 1 | 2.45 | 106.89 | 1.42 × 10−1 | 1.1 | 3.1 | |
2 | 3.45 | 148.07 | 1.70 × 10−1 | 1.4 | 3.7 | ||
Average current pressure | 4.87 | 550.80 | 7.50 × 10−1 | 6.4 | 15 | ||
