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Ecological Footprint Report

   

Added on  2020-06-04

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ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1PART 1: Calculating Ecological Footprint......................................................................................1Part 2: Manipulating Your Ecological Footprint.............................................................................2PART 3: Reflecting on Ecological Footprint..................................................................................3REFERNCES...................................................................................................................................5
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INTRODUCTIONEvery person living on the earth wants to have the flexible high class lifestyle where theywant to have whatever they want. Through technologies these might also achieved but there isrequirement of resources which are received from the earth. The more we impact on earth, morewe get affected (Li, Liu, and Sun, Z., 2016). There is relation required between the resourcesutilization and their prevention so that future demands can be fulfilled. Ecological footprint isway by which individual can understand the ways they are impacting the healthy environment. Itis used measure the unhealthy consumption pattern. It is the method by which load of populationon the environment can be understood. Further, it suggest the ways by which it can be preventedand waste can be handled. The objective of this report is to calculate the Ecological footprint,then manipulate it and at last righting critical reflection on same. PART 1: Calculating Ecological FootprintAfter calculation of the ecological footprint following things can be identified, The personal earth overshoot day is mentioned as Feb 14. Number of earth required by me was 0.9. As there is requirement of more services and mobility so there would be more carbonfootprint (Ozturk, Al-Mulali and Saboori, 2016). Ecological footprint was 1.5, Carbon footprint was 2.6 (CO2 emission/tonne) and Carbonfootprint is 59 (% of ecological footprint).For every humans there are basic requirement of food, shelter, lifestyle and many morethings. It is basically the biological need of individual to live. It mainly requires the resourceswhich are produce, generated, extracted and recycled (Collins and Cooper, 2017). Biologicaldemands of the people can be evaluated through bio-diversity which is based on the utilization ofland and water. It can be calculated through the ways by which people are consuming theresources. Ecological Footprint Standards helps to clearly calculate the ways by which peopleconsume different resources and the way they would continue to use those resources. Myecological footprint data was only 1.5. This means that there is more utilization of the resourcesthen my needs. As per the given data, I have not considered certain aspects such as fishinggrounds and grazing lands which will eliminate most of the living creatures from earth (Fu,Turner, Zhao and Du, 2015). Further, There are more Carbon footprint so there would be moreutilization of the resources and advancement in the technologies.0.9 earth would be required by
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