ecological footprint en · NOUN
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Etymology
First used by William E. Rees in 1992 and further refined by Mathis Wackernagel in his PhD thesis.
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A measure of how much biologically productive land and water area an individual, population or activity requires to produce all the resources it consumes and to absorb the waste it generates using prevailing technology and resource management practices.
Cities are graphically represented as a human foot to make a straightforward connection between the ecological footprint metaphor and the impact of urban life on local and distant environments.
2017, Luca Marazzi, Our Ecological Footprint, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 44:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| ecological footprints | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (17)
ca petjada ecològica (measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems) · eo ekologia piedsigno (measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems) · fi ekojalanjälki (measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems) · pt pegada ecológica (measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems) · cmn 生態足跡 /生态足迹 (measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems) · fr empreinte écologique (measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems) · vi dấu chân sinh thái (measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems) · es huella ecológica (measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems) · fi ekologinen jalanjälki (measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems) · hu ökológiai lábnyom (measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems) · de Ökologischer Fußabdruck (measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems) · it impronta ecologica (measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems) · ru экологи́ческий след (measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems) · ko 생태발자국 (measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems) · eo ekologia premsigno (measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems) · nl ecologische voetafdruk (measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems) · pl ślad ekologiczny (measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems)