The concept of Ecological Footprint was developed by William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel in 1990 and it means the amount of productive land and water that people in a particular part of the world need to provide them with an indefinite supply of renewable resources while also recycling all the waste and pollution related to their use of this resources. In other words, it tracks the demands placed by humans living of the Earth’s natural supplies by region, country and individual person. The Global
collectively combined and represented by a particular land area. But what is the connection between a land area and your annual production of carbon dioxide (via driving) or your yearly dietary needs? Well it is pretty simple, according to Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees, authors of the must-read entitled, Our Ecological Footprint. All humans require land area for two fundamental purposes. First, land (or ocean) provides the materials that people need to live, such as food, wood, aluminum, etc
their children and often search for skills to achieve best parenting strategies. Such a trending issue is gender creativity, which journalist Sabrina Erderly presents in her article named “About a Girl: Coy Mathis’ Fight to Change Gender” which was published in Rolling Stones magazine. Coy Mathis is a gender creative child who struggles to part from her biological identity to establish herself as a girl in an embracing community. This real story portrays the issue of gender creativity, the role of
In order for us to maintain our lives, we need to consume food to supply nutrient-needs for our bodies. As the global population increased, the demand for food also increased. Increased population led to mass production of foods. However, even with this mass production, in under-developed countries, people are still undernourished. On other hand, in developed and developing countries, people are overfed and suffering from obesity. In addition, the current methods of industrial farming destroy the
The ecological footprint is a mathematical tool that was developed by Doctor Mathis Wackernagel and Professor William Rees in 1992 to calculate how many hectares of land or acres of land are required to support one human being. Humans use up the planets’ natural resources to survive on a daily basis. These resources include fish, forests, land, water, and other agricultural products. In an aspect, we can think of humans as parasites to the planet Earth because it is our host and we need its resources
Edited by Julia Martin. India: Tibet House 1997. pages 42-59. Trizin, H.H. Kyabgon Sakya. “Exchanging Self for Others”. Ecological Responsibility: A dialogue with Buddhism. Edited by Julia Martin. India: Tibet House 1997. pages 20-30. Wackernagel, Mathis and William Rees. Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth. New Society Publishers.