What do we call the environmental impact of an individual or population in terms of the total amount of land and water required (1) to provide the raw materials and the individual or population consumes and (2) to dispose of or recycle the waste the individual or population produces?

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

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A	Environmental ethics
B	Global warming
C	environmental science
D	Ecological footprint

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -An environmental footprint (also known as ecological footprint) takes into account the entirety of supply and demand of goods and services for the planet. In doing so, it is assumed that the entire population follows a certain lifestyle characterized by a known person or a group of people.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

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