Balancing Act: A triple bottom line analysis of the Australian economy The Balancing Act report is divided into four volumes available for download as separate Adobe Acrobat pdf files. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the files. Each volume is a large file and may be slow to download across low bandwidth Internet connections. If you have problems downloading or accessing the files, please request the report on a CD ROM by emailing the Resource Futures Program cse.resfutures@csiro.au at CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems.
	The Ecological Footprint of Victoria – Assessing Victoria's Demand on Nature EPA Victoria commissioned Global Footprint Network and the University of Sydney to jointly produce a robust assessment of the State of Victoria’s Ecological Footprint. The purpose of this study was two-fold: 1. Calculate Victoria’s Footprint using two different methods; 2. Assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of both approaches, with the ultimate goal of making the two methods compatible and consistent.
	Ecological Footprint Issues and Trends The ecological footprint was originally conceived as a simple and elegant method for comparing the sustainability of resource use among different populations, and has since considerably enriched the sustainability debate. Since the formulation of the ecological footprint, a number of researchers have mentioned the oversimplification in ecological footprints of the complex task of measuring sustainability of consumption. In particular, aggregated forms of the final ecological footprint make it difficult to understand the specific reasons for the unsustainability of the consumption of a given population, and to formulate appropriate policy responses. In response to the issues highlighted, the Ecological Footprint has undergone significant modification. Comprehensive input-output-based ecological footprints are now calculated in many countries, and applied to populations, companies, cities, regions and nations.
	A Novel TBL Initiative Researchers of the University of Sydney and the CSIRO Resource Futures have elaborated the structure and function of the Australian economy from a social, environmental, and economic perspective, taking on issues such as energy, water, employment, greenhouse, economic surplus, and land disturbance. The resulting whole-economy model describes the interdependence of the physical economy with the monetary economy, complementing standard models that are central to the development of public policy issues in Australia.
	A novel Ecological Footprint and an example "The calculation of Sydney Water's Ecological Footprint by a team of researchers at the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales has enabled the organisation to better understand and communicate its environmental performance in the provision of water, wastewater and stormwater services. It has also permitted greater transparency into some of its less observable impacts. Through subsequent calculations, the Ecological Footprint will allow Sydney Water and our customers and stakeholders to gain a greater understanding in how it is progressing towards environmental sustainability through the determination of trends and changes across a number of different aspects of its environmental performance."