Advancing the Ecological Footprint for Application to Policy Development

促进生态可持续发展（ESD）的政策必须在多个层面上发挥作用。例如，如果个人消费者被授权实现更大的可持续性，但公司和政府这样做的能力仍然有限，则后果不大。我们精心挑选的行业合作将确保在全球、国家、州和企业层面上实施有效的环境政策制定。这将使我们作为一个国家，能够更好地保护环境和经济所依赖的资源。这项研究还将使澳大利亚成为实施可持续发展的世界领先者。

To be effective, policies that promote Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) must operate at many levels. For example, it is of little consequence if individual consumers are empowered to achieve greater sustainability but the capability of corporations and governments to do so remains limited. Our carefully chosen industry collaborations will ensure that effective environmental policy development can be implemented at the global, national, state and corporate level. This will allow us, as a nation, to better protect the resources upon which the environment and the economy rely. This research will also allow Australia to be a world leader in the implementation of sustainable development.