SCIENCE
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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the land that a person lives on.
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the amount of carbon dioxide a person contributes to climate change.
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the land required to produce a person’s food.
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the land needed to support all of a person’s activities.
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the amount of fossil fuel a person uses.
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Detailed explanation-1: -3 Ecological footprint. The EF is a measure of the area of biologically productive land and water that is required for an individual or an activity to produce all the resources it consumes and to absorb the waste it generates, using prevailing technology and resource management practices (Wackernagel and Rees, 1997).
Detailed explanation-2: -The Ecological Footprint of a person is calculated by adding up all of people’s demands that compete for biologically productive space, such as cropland to grow potatoes or cotton, or forest to produce timber or to sequester carbon dioxide emissions.
Detailed explanation-3: -A person’s ecological footprint is the total amount of land required to offset a person’s carbon emissions. The table below shows ecological footprint data for five different students. Each value is a measure of the number of hectares per land required.
Detailed explanation-4: -The impact of a person on the environment.
Detailed explanation-5: -It is a measure that indicates how much resources from the environment are required to support a specific way of life or business. In simpler words, the ecological footprint simply indicates the amount of pressure that humans put on the natural resources available to them in their surroundings.