ENV200H1- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 39 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Environmental sustainability: ecological footprint, ipat, sustainable development. Footprint: definition, amount of land you need to consume the water you produced with all the resources you used to sustain your lifestyle (measured in hectares, current data: Usa: 25% of global resources consumption, 9. 7 hectares per person. China: 18% of global resources consumption, 1. 6 hectares per person. Canada: 2. 5% of global ecological capacity, 8. 1 hectares per person. Uk: 18% of global resources consumption, 4. 7 hectares per person. Japan: 5% of global resources consumption, 4. 8 hectares per person, notes: Note how the the global resources consumption is not totally dependent of the size of the country (ex: usa way bigger than uk but both have similar percentages 25% & Important (may appear on a test) : what footprint do we need to consume not more than the earth"s ecological capacity, divide area of the earth available to support us by the size of the global population:
