ecological footprint

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — 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.

词形变化

ecological footprints plural

词源

First used by William E. Rees in 1992 and further refined by Mathis Wackernagel in his PhD thesis.
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