Fig. 1: Planetary boundary footprints (excluding materials use) comparing capital city and regional areas vs global averages for Australia’s major states.
From: Exploring the safe and just space for urban and regional Australia
Values show per-capita footprint relative to global average per-capita footprint, e.g. 12 indicates 12 x higher impact than the global average person. Outer circles show state of boundary exceedance – red is exceeded, yellow is in zone of risk. Global average is 1 in all cases. Where footprints are more than 7 times higher they are truncated to 7 for readability, and similarly when less than -2. See Figs. 3, 4 for a detailed breakdown.
