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A case study of the university of toronto at mississauga. Tenley m. conway, chelsea dalton, jennifer loo and. Department of geography, university of toronto at mississauga, Purpose the ecological footprint represents a simple way to assess the amount of materials consumed and waste produced by a given entity. The approach has been applied to countries, towns, households, and more recently university campuses. One of the challenges of using the ecological footprint at a university is the dif culty of determining how large the footprint should be. The authors have developed a calculator speci c to the needs of a university campus, and applied it to the. Rather than focus on the overall size, the purpose of this paper is to instead create several scenarios to help communicate the relative impacts of alternative actions. Design/methodology/approach an ecological footprint calculator appropriate to the campus was developed and applied to utm.