ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVViewpointNEXTMaking Sense of the Minefield of Footprint IndicatorsBradley Ridoutt*†, Peter Fantke‡, Stephan Pfister§, Jane Bare∥, Anne-Marie Boulay⊥, Francesco Cherubini#, Rolf Frischknecht∇, Michael Hauschild‡, Stefanie Hellweg§, Andrew Henderson○, Olivier Jolliet◆, Annie Levasseur⊥, Manuele Margni⊥, Thomas McKone¶, Ottar Michelsen∞, Llorenç Milà i Canals◒, Girija Page⊙, Rana Pant◨, Marco Raugei⊞, Serenella Sala◨, Erwan Saouter◨, Francesca Verones#, and Thomas Wiedmann∫View Author Information† Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Clayton, Victoria 3169, Australia‡ Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Department for Management Engineering, Division for Quantitative Sustainability Assessment, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark§ ETH Zurich, Institute of Environmental Engineering, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland∥ United States Environmental Protection Agency, Sustainable Technology Division, Systems Analysis Branch, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Cincinnati, Ohio 45268, United States⊥ CIRAIG, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Montreal, Canada# Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Industrial Ecology Programme, Department of Energy and Process Engineering, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway∇ treeze Ltd., Uster, Switzerland○ University of Texas Health Science Center, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, Houston, Texas 77030, United States◆ University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States¶ University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and School of Public Health, Berkeley, California 94720, United States∞ Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Division for Finance and Property, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway◒ United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Division for Technology, Industry and Economics, 15 Rue de Milan, 75009 Paris, France⊙ University of Western Sydney, School of Science and Health, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia◨ European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Via Enrico Fermi 2749, Ispra, I-21027, Italy⊞ Oxford Brookes University, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Oxford OX33 1HX, United Kingdom∫ UNSW Australia, Sustainability Assessment Program, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia*E-mail: [email protected]Cite this: Environ. Sci. Technol. 2015, 49, 5, 2601–2603Publication Date (Web):February 12, 2015Publication History Received11 January 2015Published online12 February 2015Published inissue 3 March 2015https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5b00163Copyright © 2015 American Chemical SocietyRIGHTS & PERMISSIONSArticle Views3444Altmetric-Citations36LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InReddit PDF (642 KB) Get e-AlertsSUBJECTS:Beverages,Carbohydrates,Climate change,Environmental modeling Get e-Alerts