EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -In short, an ecological footprint is the impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources.

Detailed explanation-3: -What does the Ecological Footprint measure? The Ecological Footprint measures the amount of biologically productive land and sea area an individual, a region, all of humanity, or a human activity that compete for biologically productive space.

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.