Ecological Footprint

Anup Ghimire

Environmental Sustainability of urban or rural area can be measured with

ecological footprint

Ecological footprint is the amount of bio productive land and sea required

supporting a person’s lifestyle.

WWF(2007)

Ecological footprint of a city can be calculated using individual’s

requirement of productive land and sea using their current expenses in housing, transport, food, consumer

items, private services, public services, capital investment and

miscellaneous sectors.

WWF(2007)

Human consumption of resources equivalent to average productivity of

global hectares is expressed in ecological footprint. 

Sage Publication(2006)

Urbanization has been identified as a triggering factor for larger ecological

footprint as it increases resource consumption

WWF(2014)

British City Ranks: Ecological Footprint

1. Newport and Plymouth15. Glasgow and Cardiff

17. Birmingham21. Liverpool44. London

60. WinchesterWWF(2007)

Ecological Footprint: England

Plymouth: 2.78 PlanetsSalisbury: 2.79 Planets Oxford: 3.4 PlanetsPortsmouth: 3.21 Planets

WWF(2007)

Ecological Footprint of World in 1997 was 2.3 hectares per

capita.

ucl.ac.uk (1997)

Ecological Footprint: Nations (1997)hectares per capita

Bangladesh: 0.7China : 1.2

Indonesia: 1.6S. Korea: 2.0

Peru: 1.7

ucl.ac.uk (1997)

Ecological Footprint: Nations (1997)hectares per capita

Australia : 8.1Iceland: 9.9New Zealand: 9.8United States: 8.4

ucl.ac.uk(1997)