Footprint, resource

The quantity of energy or materials required to bring a product or processes to its present state (also called “emergy” or embodied energy by H. T. Odum). Sometimes it’s only the current energy or materials used by a process.

The most popular version of this is the carbon footprint, which is only part of any total resource footprint. (See life cycle analysis.)

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