ECOLOGY
HUMANS AND THE BIOSPHERE
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Question
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The impact of walking in the sand
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The impact of a barefoot person walking through the woods
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The impact of a person or community expressed as the amount of land needed to sustain their natural resource use.
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Detailed explanation-1: -An ecological footprint is the impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land and sea required to support their use of natural resources. It is a measure of the demand for natural resources in relation to the earth’s ability to restore or replenish the resources consumed.
Detailed explanation-2: -This is what the Ecological Footprint does: It measures the biologically productive area needed to provide for everything that people demand from nature: fruits and vegetables, meat, fish, wood, cotton and other fibres, as well as absorption of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning and space for buildings and roads.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Ecological Footprint of a biological resource represents the amount of biologically productive land and water area required to produce that material.
Detailed explanation-4: -The ecological footprint is a method promoted by the Global Footprint Network to measure human demand on natural capital, i.e. the quantity of nature it takes to support people or an economy. It tracks this demand through an ecological accounting system.