Measurement of Ecological Footprint and Sustainable Development

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Part 1: Organic Footprint
Abstract
The study focuses on the measurement of ecological footprint with the world food fund.
It tends to establish the relationship between ecological footprint and a sustainable development
by considering several indicators like a forest, greenhouse gases, injustices, human rights,
extreme effects of weather conditions, rising sea level and ways of recycling reusing renewable
energy sources and non-renewable sources. It shows the effects of human activities on the
environment.
a) Measure of Ecological footprint with World Food Fund Calculator
The planet Earth supports life and therefore is the dwelling place of human beings. It also
supports the life of various ecosystems too. Due to its nature, humans can identify their
sustainable wants and establish a better means of survival. This, therefore, affects the ecological
ecosystem and it's surrounding forming the basis of ecological footprint. In the previous years,

the ecological footprint was solely established to measure the usage of resources produced and
consumption-cycle internationally (Fang, Heijungs, & de Snoo, 2014).
There has been a growing demand for goods and services generated from earth’s
resources which have surpassed what can be recycled from planet’s ecosystems. For instance,
Land is an important natural resource that is used for food production hence influences
humanity’s consumption cycle. Activities carried out by humans have a bigger influence on how
they consume the earth's resources and production of wastes as a result. It is from this
perspective that ecological footprint calculation is founded and used extensively for global
assessment on the impacts of the environment. Ecological footprint, therefore, measures the
quantity usage of biologically-productive earth’s resources like land, water etc. and its available
space. The study of the ecological footprint is globally useful in the assessment of sustainability
and development goals. It is a better tool for measuring and managing earth’s resources for
various global economies (Al-Mulali, et al 2015). The ecological footprint is measured in world's
scales, country's scales, city's scales, and individual scales.
Ecological footprint calculation plays a pivotal role in the consumer-based sector. By
calculation, total quantity demanded by a country is given by the function; C=P+I-X. Where,
P=production, I=imports, and X=exports. This principle is applicable to several established
countries. Developed nations do have a stable population hence high index of well-being. This
makes them consume a lot of resources which in the end has a corresponding increase in their
ecological footprint (Galli et al., 2014).