SCIENCE
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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Question
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resource debt to use ratio
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ecological footprint
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nonrenewable/renewable data
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use / nonuse data
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ecological Footprint accounting measures the extent to which the ecological demand of human economies stays within or exceeds the capacity of the biosphere to supply goods and services.
Detailed explanation-2: -The impact of a person on the environment.
Detailed explanation-3: -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 and their economies. It tracks this demand through an ecological accounting system.
Detailed explanation-4: -The simplest way to define ecological footprint would be to call it the impact of human activities measured in terms of the area of biologically productive land and water required to produce the goods consumed and to assimilate the wastes generated.