ecological footprint
Noun
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Noun
ecological footprint (plural ecological footprints)
- 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.
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- 2017, Luca Marazzi, Our Ecological Footprint, CRC Press (ISBN 9781351350860), page 44:
- 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.
- French: empreinte écologique
- German: Ökologischer Fußabdruck
- Italian: impronta ecologica
- Portuguese: pegada ecológica
- Russian: экологи́ческий след
- Spanish: huella ecológica
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