ECOLOGY
HUMANS AND THE BIOSPHERE
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Pollutant
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Acid Rain
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Ecological Footprint
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Detailed explanation-1: -The ‘ecological footprint’ is based on carrying capacity and the idea of ‘biocapacity’ (short for ‘biological capacity’). This refers to the capacity of a given biologically productive area to generate an ongoing supply of renewable resources and to absorb the population’s spillover wastes (GFN, 2015).
Detailed explanation-2: -The Ecological Footprint of a biological resource represents the amount of biologically productive land and water area required to produce that material.
Detailed explanation-3: -The biocapacity of a particular surface represents its ability to regenerate what people demand. Biocapacity is therefore the ecosystems’ capacity to produce biological materials used by people and to absorb waste material generated by humans, under current management schemes and extraction technologies.