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Asked by: Reuben Eroshevsky
business and finance environmental services industryWhat does ecological footprint represent?
Ecological Footprint accounting measures the demand on and supply of nature. On the supply side, a city, state or nation's biocapacity represents the productivity of its ecological assets (including cropland, grazing land, forest land, fishing grounds, and built-up land).
Likewise, people ask, what does a person's ecological footprint represent?
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.
Hereof, what is the ecological footprint and what does it tell us?
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.
When left uninterrupted or unexploited these areas have the capacity to absorb almost all the waste produced by humans particularly carbon emissions. The ecological footprint represents the productive areas needed to provide renewable resources people are using and to also absorb the waste produced.