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 ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT
Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute said:

"It would take 1.5 earths to sustain our present level of

consumption. Environmentally, the world is in an
overshoot mode."

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Ecological Footprint
The Ecological Footprint measures

it consumes and
absorbs the
carbon dioxide
emissions
amount of biologically
productive land and sea area
an individual, a region, all of
humanity or a human activity compares this
requires to produce the measurement to
resources how much land
and sea area is
available

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Definition
Ecological Footprint is the amount of resources needed by an individual to survive by inputting a
wide range of data. Scientists have calculated the current human population’s ecological
footprint as equal to 1.5 earths.

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Ecological Deficit
An area’s ecological footprint is larger than the biological capacity to replenish its resources, and
absorb the resulting waste and pollution, it is called ‘Ecological Deficit’.

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Components of Ecological Footprint

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Component
1

Biologically Productive
Land Area

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Component
2

Bio-capacity

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Component
3

Global Hectare

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Component
4

Ecological Overshoot

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Measuring of Ecological Footprint
Country Population Footprint Available Deficit Total Total
1997 (ha/cap) capacity (ha/cap) footprint capacity
(ha/cap) (km2) (km2)

India 970,230,000 0.8 0.5 -0.3 7,761,840 4,851,150

China 1,247,315,000 1.2 0.8 -0.4 14,967,780 9,978,520

Peru 24,791,000 1.6 7.7 6.1 395,056 1,901,207

France 58,433,000 4.1 4.2 0.1 2,395,753 2,454,186

Germany 81,845,000 5.3 1.9 -3.4 4,337,785 1,555,055

Canada 30,101,000 7.7 9.6 1.9 2,317,777 2,889,696

United States 268,198,000 10.3 6.7 -3.6 27,623,467 17,968,663

World 5,892,480,000 2.8 2.1 -0.7

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Measuring of Ecological Footprint
WWF’s Living Planet Report 2014:
Global ecological footprint 18.1 billion gha
Earth’s total bio-capacity 12 billion gha
This means that the Earth’s people needed 18 billion hectares of productive land in
order to provide each and every person with the resources they required to
support their lifestyle and to absorb the wastes they produced.

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Calculating Ecological Footprint

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1. The Ecological Footprint of a Person

Amount of material consumed by that person (tonnes per year)

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Yield of the specific land or sea area (annual tonnes per hectare)

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2. The Ecological Footprint of an Activity

Calculated by summing the Ecological Footprint of all of the material consumed and CO 2 emitted
during that activity

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3. Ecological Footprint and Carrying Capacity
Carrying capacity a technical term refers to the maximum population of a species
Ecological Footprint accounts approach the carrying capacity question from a different angle

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Benefits of Ecological Footprint
1. The Footprint tracks current human demand on nature
2. The Ecological Footprint neither pro- nor anti-trade
3. The Footprint and bio-capacity results shows how the technology impacts resource
flows
4. Footprint assessments are historical rather than predictive, and make no judgement
about the value of technologies

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Ways to Reduce the Ecological Footprint

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