Thursday, April 16, 2015


ECHOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT
Muhammad Reza Fahlevi
Ankara University

 


In this opportunity I will discuss about Ecological Footprint. You’ve probably heard of the Ecological Footprint. In international issues Ecological Footprint is the issue that very often discussed by the people.
What is The Ecological Footprint? The Ecological Footprint is a system that measures how much water and land required to produce a source for human population. The function of Ecological Footprint for nations is a resource accounting tool that help countries understand their ecological balance sheet and gives them the data necessary to manage their resources and secure their future. The concept of Ecological Footprint is introduced by William Race and Mathis Wackernagel in 1990.
In Ecological Footprint is represent two side of balance sheet. Specifically, Biocapacity and Footprint. Biocapacity is the capacity of the earth to fulfill human needs and Footprint is the demand of human to the earth’s ecosystems. As I know there is some footprint in this earth :
-          Forest Footprint: Human always cut down trees to produce timber (furniture and something like that)  and paper.
-         Carbon Footprint : Vehicles which always use gasoline or diesel as a fuel and also can damaging ozone.
-         Built-up Land Footprint : Vacant land always use for make building, like home, mall, store and others.
-         Cropland and Pasture Footprint : human always take a food and flore from the earth.
-         Fisheries Footprint : Human always fishing fish from the sea
After we use natural resources certainly we have to recycling it in order to keep the balance of the earth by Ecological Footprint. But, our current global situation since 1970s, humanity has been ecological overshoot with annual demand of natural resources exceeding what earth can regenerate each year.
Description: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/images/uploads/Number_of_Planet_Scenarios_2008.JPG
Today the condition of our earth humanity uses the equivalent of 1.5 planets to provide the resources we use and absorb our waste. This means it now takes the Earth one year and six months to regenerate what we use in a year.
In Moderate UN scenarios suggest if our current population and consumption is continue perhaps in 2030s we need 2 earth to support us. And of course this should not occur because we just have one.
In country’s scope footprint is influenced by individuals. The size of person’s ecological footprint depends on development level and wealth, because if they life in the development level and wealth its mean they life with high lifestyle and if they life with high lifestyle its needs a lot of natural resources to fulfill their needs. For example, individuals generally have no direct control over the size of the built-up land footprint until that region become very overshoot like United State of America. For more detail example we will discuss it in our meeting.
     How to solve it ? This is a globalized problem so to solve this problem everyone needs to contribute to a solution. This is a prosperity problem everyone wants a better lifestyle which often involves increased consumption. Developing country want to consume more and developed country don’t want to consume less.
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