THE RECENT TREND OF CALCULATIONAL STANDARDS OF ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT: BASED ON “ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT STANDARDS 2009”

Sustainability of environmental management in Iran: An ecological footprint analysis

ABSTRACT- Sustainability and environmental management are the most cited ideas linking the environment and development. The sustainability of natural resources depends upon our paradigm and related approaches to the relationship between society and the environment. Efficient management is a primary task due to the pressure on nature. Ecological footprint analysis has been intro...

The Ecological Footprint of Higher Education

Ecological footprint of university students: Does gender matter?

To determine if there is a gender difference in the resource consumption activities of students in Central Mindanao University, a Philippine state university, an ecological foot printing study was conducted in August 2014. Consumption data from 380 student respondents were gathered using a survey questionnaire. A web-based software created by the Global Footprint Network was used to convert the...

Atmospheric footprint of the recent warming slowdown

Growing body of literature has developed to detect the role of ocean heat uptake and transport in the recent warming slowdown between 1998-2013; however, the atmospheric footprint of the slowdown in dynamical and physical processes remains unclear. Here, we divided recent decades into the recent hiatus period and the preceding warming period (1983-1998) to investigate the atmospheric footprint....

Evaluation of the Regional Ecological Environment in Central China Based on the Ecological Footprint Model

The ecological footprint is a quantitative biophysical method commonly used to evaluate the status of regional ecological environment and the degree of sustainable development. In this paper, the concept and calculation process of the ecological footprint are introduced by taking a county located in central China as example. Computational analysis and empirical research of the region’s ecologic...