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The ecological footprint is a measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems. It is a standardized measure of demand for natural capital that may be contrasted with the planet's ecological capacity to regenerate. It represents the amount of biologically productive land and sea area necessary to supply the resources a human population consumes, and to assimilate associated waste. Using this assessment, 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. For 2007, humanity's total ecological footprint was estimated at 1.5 planet Earths; that is, humanity uses ecological services 1.5 times as quickly as Earth can renew them. Every year, this number is recalculated to incorporate the three-year lag due to the time it takes for the UN to collect and publish statistics and relevant research.
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- Related: Carbon footprint, Water footprint, Dependency theory, Ecological economics, Ecosystem valuation, Greenhouse debt, Life cycle assessment, Netherlands fallacy, Simon–Ehrlich wager
| Global Footprint Network Ecological Footprint : Ov... Global Footprint Network Ecological Footprint : Overview www.footprintnetwork.org/gfn_sub.php?content=footprint_overview - Web |
| Earth Overshoot Day Earth Overshoot Day www.footprintnetwork.org/gfn_sub.php?content=overshoot - Web |
| Footprintcalculator.org Footprintcalculator.org www.footprintcalculator.org - Web |
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| WWF "Living Planet Report" WWF "Living Planet Report" www.panda.org/livingplanet/ - Web |
| Answers to common Footprint questions Answers to common Footprint questions www.footprintnetwork.org/faq - Web |
| GTZ's conservation and development series "Sustain... GTZ's conservation and development series "Sustainability Has Many Faces" www.conservation-development.net/index.php?L=2&ds=313 - Web |
| Ecological Footprint Ecological Footprint www.eoearth.org/article/Ecological_footprint - Web |
| Life Cycle Assessment, introduction Life Cycle Assessment, introduction lca.jrc.ec.europa.eu/lcainfohub/introduction.vm - Web |
| Independent directory of service providers, databa... Independent directory of service providers, databases, tools for LCA/Carbon footprint and related lca.jrc.ec.europa.eu/lcainfohub/directory.vm - Web |
| Best Foot Forward Ecological Footprint experts Best Foot Forward Ecological Footprint experts www.bestfootforward.com - Web |
| Ecological Footprint 2.0 Ecological Footprint 2.0 www.worldchanging.com/archives/006904.html - Web |
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| Ecological Footprint Cartogram Ecological Footprint Cartogram pthbb.org/natural/footprint/ - Web |
| UK charity specifically dedicated to sustainable d... UK charity specifically dedicated to sustainable development linked to ecological footprinting www.footprint-trust.co.uk - Web |
| 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership www.twentyten.net - Web |
| US Environmental Footprint Factsheet US Environmental Footprint Factsheet css.snre.umich.edu/css_doc/CSS08-08.pdf - Web |
| Interview with Bill Rees Interview with Bill Rees www.2020vancouver.com/node/3 - Web |
