This document discusses ecological footprints and how to measure them. An ecological footprint calculates the amount of productive land and water required to support a population based on its consumption and waste production using current technology. The document notes that global footprints exceeded the Earth's carrying capacity in the mid-1980s. It provides ecological footprint sizes for various countries, with the highest footprints belonging to Qatar, the USA, and Australia.

1. An Introduction
Ecological Footprints

2. Syllabus Link
Measuring trends in resource consumption, including
individual, national and global ecological footprints

3. Ecological Footprint =
It calculates the amount of
productive land and water a given
population requires to produce all
the resources they consume and
take in all the waste they make
using existing technology.

4. • How many planets do you need?

5. • How many planets do you need?
• What are the components of measuring an
ecological footprint?

8. Ecological Footprint size by component
Living Planet report – WWF 2014
Which ones are the most
significant?

9. People started to
exceed nature's
ability to regenerate
– its ‘carrying
capacity’ - from the
mid-1980s onwards.

14. ‘The Bottom Line’
(recommended by the Bruntland Commission to protect biodiversity)
2.3 hectares of biologically productive land and
ocean per person minus 12%
= 2.0 hectares per person

15. USA 8.0
Australia 8.8
UK 5.1
Japan 5.2
Norway 5.6Brazil 3.0
China 3.6
Egypt 1.7
India 0.9
Kenya 1.1
Bangladesh 0.6
Qatar 12.5 Holland 5.8
Thailand 2.6
Global footprint network
data - 2010

16. The Global Pattern of Ecological Footprints …
WWF Living Planet report 2012

17. 2017 Rankings
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/content/documents/ecological_footprint_natio
ns/ecological_per_capita.html

18. 2017 Rankings
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/content/documents/ecological_footprint_natio
ns/ecological_per_capita.html

20. The Top 20 National
Ecological Footprints
Why?
http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/all_publications/living_planet_report/living_planet

21. Consider a country’s:
Biocapacity & ability to
fix C02
Industrialization
Population growth
Pollution/contamination
of resources
Affluence/level
of development
Meat versus veg
consumption
Relative
dependence on
fossil fuels

22. Describe trends

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29. Japan’s