Ecological footprint, 2019 essentiality , estimation, and how to reduce ecological footprints

1. Hanumanthagouda Patil
PALB 8239
Dept, Of F&ES

2. Contents.,
•Introduction
•Components of Ecological Footprints
•Different Countries Ecological Footprints
•Estimation Of Ecological Footprints
•Purpose Of Ecological Footprints
•How to reduce Ecological Footprints

3. WE ALL DEPEND ON NATURE
Through activities such Drinking, Eating, Breathing ,we exchange energy
as well as matter with the environment.
Basically we use
• Energy for heat and mobility
• Wood and timber for housing and paper
• Food and water for living organism
INTRODUCTION

4. WE ALL DEPEND ON NATURE
• Absorbs our waste
• Climate stability
• Protect us from ultraviolet radiation
• Sources of our lives as well as our well being
 Ecological Footprints is The amount of productive land and
water required to support the lifestyle of an Individual, a city,
region or Country and also mitigate the associated waste. It
expressed in global hectares.
 Ecological Footprint = The space required to support all the
inputs and outputs.
 Eco-footprint helps us understand that a small proportion of the
population is consuming a large amount of the resources

5. Components of Ecological Footprint

6. Countries With The Ecological Footprints
Rank Country
Ecological
Footprint In
Global Hectares
Per Capita
Bio
capacity(gha
/person)
Bio capacity
Deficit/Reserved
1 Luxemburg(Europe) 15.82 1.68 -14.14
2 Aruba(Island country) 11.88 0.57 -11.31
3 Qatar 10.8 1.24 -9.56
4 Australia 9.31 16.57 7.26
5 United States 8.22 3.76 -4.46
164 India 1.16 0.45 -0.71
184 Pakistan 0.79 0.35 -0.44
185 Bangladesh 0.72 0.38 -0.35
Source : (National Footprint Accounts edition 2016) ., http://data.footprintnetwork.org

7. Global Average
• The world-average ecological footprint in 2012 was 2.84 global
hectares per person (22.1 billion in total).
• With a world-average biocapacity of 1.73 global hectares (gha)
per person (9.2 billion in total), this leads to a
global ecological deficit of 1.1 global hectares per person (7.8
billion in total).

8. ESTIMATION OF ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT
 The ecological footprint is a measure of human demand on the
Earth's ecosystems. it is possible to estimate how much of
the Earth (or how many planet Earths) it would take to support
humanity if everybody followed a given lifestyle.
 humanity's total ecological footprint was estimated at 1.4 planet
Earths – in other words, humanity uses ecological
services 1.4 times as fast as Earth can renew them.
Source : Global Footprint Network

9. ESTIMATION OF ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT
 Ecological footprint (EF) is a means of comparing consumption
and lifestyles, and checking this against nature's ability to provide
for this consumption.
 Footprint values categorized for Carbon, Food, Housing, and
Goods and Services as well as the total footprint number of
Earths needed to sustain the world's population at that level of
consumption.
 Ecological Footprints can be calculated for individual people,
groups of people (such as a nation), and activities (such as
manufacturing a product).
 It was unfortunately calculated in different ways by different
groups of people, which was a problem. Thankfully there are
standards in place now for its calculation.

10. ECOLOGICAL FOOT PRINT STANDARDS 2009(GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK STANDARDS
COMMITTEE)

11. CONT,,
 The Ecological Footprint of a person is calculated by adding up
all of people’s demands that compete for biologically productive
space, such as cropland to grow crops, or forest to produce timber
or to sequester carbon dioxide emissions translated into an
equivalent number of global hectares
 The Ecological Footprint of a group of people, such as a city or
nation, is simply the sum of the Ecological Footprint of all the
residents of that city or nation.
 calculating the Footprint of a business or organization, the
organization’s activities to be included within the assessment
must be clearly defined.

12. WHAT PURPOSE IS THE ECOLOGICAL
FOOTPRINT USED FOR?
Comparing lifestyle to sustainability and thus influence
government policy.
 Educating people about over-consumption, sustainability and
carrying capacity and therefore altering their behaviour.
 In order to preserve our remaining resources by understanding
how can reduce our impact on environment.

13. HOW TO REDUCE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS ?,
 Switch to Renewable Energy.
 Recycle Responsibly.
 Reduce Your Use of Single-Use, Disposable Plastics.
 Reduce your Waste.
 Drive Less.
 Reduce Your Water Use
 Support Local.
 Practice sustainable agriculture and forestry.

14. Time to calculate your ecological footprint,,,
www.ecologicalfootprintcalculator.com

16. “LIVE SIMPLY SO OTHERS MAY SIMPLY LIVE”-
GANDHI

17. References:
• https://www.footprintnetwork.org/our-work/ecological-footprint/
• http://ecologicalfootprint.com
• https://wwf.panda.org/knowledge_ecological_balance/eco_footprint
• https://www.footprintcalculator.org/