Q92 (CGS/2026) Environment & Ecology › Ecology & Ecosystem Basics

The measure of area of biologically productive land or sea required to produce food, material and energy for human population is known as

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The ecological footprint is a resource accounting tool that measures the amount of biologically productive land and sea area required to produce the resources a human population consumes and to absorb the waste it generates. It is typically expressed in global hectares (gha).

Living Planet Index: Tracks the state of global biodiversity based on population trends of vertebrate species.
Carbon footprint: A subset of the ecological footprint that measures the total amount of greenhouse gases (expressed as CO2 equivalent) emitted by an entity.
Carrying capacity: The maximum population size of a species that a specific environment can sustain indefinitely without depleting its resources.

The definition in the question specifically describes the spatial requirement for resource production and waste assimilation, which is the core concept of the ecological footprint.

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