Applying the Sustainable Consumption Corridor (SCC) Framework: An Analysis of Social and Ecological Sustainability in Icelandic Food Provisioning Systems

Existing evaluations of sustainability within food systems tend to focus on either ecological or social components of sustainability, but rarely both, indicating the need for combined frameworks that account for the environmental impacts associated with meeting human needs with regard to food provisioning. This work targets this gap by showcasing a sustainable consumption corridor (SCC) indicator framework through a case study evaluating the social and ecological sustainability performance of Icelandic food provisioning systems. It does so by measuring Iceland's sustainability across a set of threshold‐linked sustainability indicators designed to gauge Iceland's proximity to a state of sustainable consumption in food provisioning. The indicator thresholds are used to set boundaries for the ecological ceiling and social foundation, which define the upper and lower limits of the SCC. The results demonstrate how the methodology can be used to measure sustainability performance and show that food provisioning within Iceland remains in a just but not safe space, where social needs are met, but not within ecologically sustainable limits.