Ecological footprint
What Ecological footprint means in Geography GCSE, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: AQA
The overall goal of these features is to reduce the city's ecological footprint.
A measure of the impact of human activities, expressed as the area of productive land and water required to produce the goods consumed and assimilate the wastes generated.
Topics that use Ecological footprint
- Section A: Urban issues and challenges (AQA GCSE)
- The UK's resource consumption and environmental sustainability challenge (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Natural increase
- Biodiversity
- Conservation
- Counter-urbanisation
- Deindustrialisation and economic shift
- Economic insecurity
- Employment
- Energy conservation
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