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ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT

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Topic : Ecological footprints
Ecological footprint measures the ecological assets which are required to produce natural
resources to consume it includes the plant based fibre products, Livestock, Fish products , timber
and forest products. Moreover, it includes the space for cities and roads and other infrastructure.
Moreover, it absorbs the carbon emission. Ecological footprints is tracked using the six
categories which include grazing, fishing grounds, built upwind, forest area and carbon demand
(Ecological Footprint, 2016). Furthermore, It measures the demand and supply on nature. The
society is getting aware of the effect of their daily action son the global environment which can
be measured by determining the ecological footprint of a person, household or business.
It measures at what extent the activity uses the productive land and sea resources with
how much land and sea is available. The larger the footprint , the less ecological or sustainably
responsible is activity (Mancini and et.al., 2016). The foundation of ecological footprint
accounting at the national level is national footprint accounts which tracks the human demand on
nature and the capacity of the nature to meet the demand for more than 200 countries. National
Footprints accounts measure the ecological resource usage and their capacity of the countries
from 1961 to 2014. The consumption of the country is calculated by adding import to national
production and subtracting export from national production. It uses the yield of primary
products which consist of cropland, forest, grazing land and fisheries.
Bio capacity is measured through determining the biologically productive land and sea
available in order to provide resources which can be consumed by the population and absorption
of waste. To make bio capacity comparable across space and time, areas are adjusted
proportionally to their biological productivity which are expressed in terms of global hectares. It
is divided into ecological footprint of consumption, production and net ecological footprint of
Trade (Al-Mulali and et.al., 2015). The ecological reserve is present with the company when the
foot print is smaller than its bio-capacity. The calculation of national footprint account is based
on the United nations data sets. The information is gathered from agriculture organisation, UN
commodity trade statistics and UN statistics division. Moreover, the information for calculating
footprint is gathered from International; Energy agency & various other supplementary data
sources.
The Changes which are being made in the national afoot prints account 2018 edition.
The first change include the New data start ear in equality scoring system which is being