ENVS 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Ecological Footprint, Ecological Debt, Biocapacity
6 Sep 2018
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Understanding how our uses of ecosystem services leaves an impact when it comes to our footprint: ecological deficit or ecological reserve. If they exceed the region"s biocapacity they are running an ecological deficit: the demand is more than the living space can provide them. Measuring ecological deficit in terms of earths: we are pulling down resources, using more than one earth"s resources, climate change, we have exceeded the capacity to regulate. Multiple visual ways of representing ecological footprint data and different biocapacities of each nation: ecological footprint per capita, 10 largest and smallest footprint nations, usa, one of the biggest ecological footprints in the world. Biocapacity and consumption: australia v. us, aus has an ecological reserve, not using all of their biocapacity, us is using much more. Ef analysis: estimate earth"s biocapacity, compile resources consumption data, determine average footprint/population, institutional, governing & personal application, goals, account for natural asses to meet demand, advance sustainable development.
