The theory of Ecology is the study of relationships between organisms and the environment within an ecosystem. Ecology is everything to the human population. It covers a broad field including speciation and population dynamics. It is the study of biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) that depend and interact with each in the environment. Meaning it focuses on plants, animals, bacteria, rivers, mountains and even humans. With both abiotic and biotic factors in the same area ecologist call that an ecosystem. A small pond acts as an ecosystem as it hold both abiotic and biotic factors whilst a glass of drinking water would be a abiotic factor and could not be classed as an ecosystem just by itself because you need both abiotic factors and biotic factors for something to be classed as an ecosystem. There’s special types of people that study ecosystems and there known as ecologists. A population is another type of grouping ecologists came up with, it means specific types of animal or plant group. While a community is multiple population groups. Within ecosystems there is multiple species, and all have certain niches (jobs). It could be bee’s and there maintenance on flowers to produce honey or dung beetles and their job to feed each other. All of this is impacted by humans every day and a measure to calculate the damage is called an ecological footprint. A countries ecological footprint is the sum of all the land/places that’s required to deliver and produce food plus, all waste and timber and fibre used. What this means is that a global ecological footprint can be calculated and it has been with humanity needed at least 1.5 planets to sustain and resource us humans. What they have now worked out is that it takes the earth at least... ... middle of paper ... ...nce (Adventure Lab, 2012). But not only did I have an excessively high ecological footprint it was also higher than most of my peers. Discovering this is important for understanding the impact on the environment I have. The bio capacity of the planet depends on global population, therefor at the moment the bio capacity is 1.9 hectares per person (Expanding Eco Footprint). Though at the moment on a global spectrum we all use up to 2.2 hectares meaning that the earth bio capacity alone cannot sustain us. This is becoming noticeable as ice caps are melting, forests are dying and ecosystems are failing. Bio capacity alone is the capacity of ecosystems and for them to be able to produce and sustain useful biological materials and its ability to absorb waste material generated globally by humans, incorporating help from new technology. (Natures Regenerative Capacity)
One starting point to reducing the amount of greenhouse gases that you release is to find your carbon footprint. The carbon
The ecological footprint is a mathematical tool that was developed by Doctor Mathis Wackernagel and Professor William Rees in 1992 to calculate how many hectares of land or acres of land are required to support one human being. Humans use up the planets’ natural resources to survive on a daily basis. These resources include fish, forests, land, water, and other agricultural products. In an aspect, we can think of humans as parasites to the planet Earth because it is our host and we need its resources to survive. Within the means of the ecological footprint, we want to look closely as the production of Earth’s resources, against the consumption rate of the human race. We can think of the ecological foot print analysis as an approach to a global
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Environmental sustainability is when a person, community or area is able to meet the needs of the present, without compromising the needs of the future. Overconsumption will lead to hardship in the future, and possibly to the destruction of the planet’s finite resources; and if we continue using our resources as at current rates, which have been estimated to be 4 planets worth of resources, this will be inevitable. Populations are all the inhabitants of a specific area/country and this population can be controlled in various methods such as population policies, like the ones in China, Kerala and France; as well as control via migration by putting on limits.
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A personal ecological footprint, also known as an eco-footprint, is the demand that an individual person puts on the Earth’s natural resources; such as land, ocean, and the waste that the individual produces. A person’s consumption of the Earth’s resources and how that individual impacts the earth help to create a personal eco-footprint calculation. At http://myfootprint.org/, I calculated my personal ecological footprint and discovered my impact on the Earth’s resources and its ecosystem. The ecological footprint quiz results were that if everyone on the planet lived my lifestyle we would need 3.86 Earth’s to sustain the world’s population.
The Center for Sustainable Economy, ecological footprint quiz was very informative to partake in and the results were impartial to my thoughts based on questions of what I expected in each of the four consumption and ecosystem biomes categories except for one. What I found surprising was the overall results of my lifestyle, that equate to 4.83 Earths, if everyone on the planet lived my lifestyle. Wow!
Carbon footprints: “the total amount of greenhouse gasses produced to directly and indirectly support human activities, usually expressed in equivalent tons of CO2(carbon dioxide)” (n.d, 2007).
...se of the Earth’s photosynthetic capacity, and the impact per person on the environment is increasing. (Diamond, Collapse, p. 300-406)
There is no hesitation when it comes to whether humans impact the global environment. However, it is questioned in whether human’s ecological footprint is either negatively or positively impacting. In clear perspective, humans share from both sides and their ecological footprint is noted towards whether it will benefit or harm the environment around them. Topics such as overpopulation, pollution, biomagnification, and deforestation are all human impacted and can harm the environment, but some include benefits into helping the world around us with solutions to their problems.
Every day the world around us is changing ever so slightly in many different ways. Humans can affect the environment through our day to day lifestyle without even noticing the change. An ecological footprint is a measurement of how much a person uses the environment around them to live their life. This given measurement can help one to see their impact on the earth. It is an important tool to understand what actually a human does to change the habitat near them. My ecological footprint results gave me a perspective of how my daily life can impact the world I live in, as well as, how I as an individual can change my actions to make less waste on earth. It is also useful for each person to know their own ecological footprint since no one live
Today talking about environmental issues lately to be like a common topic discussion until people take it for granted. However, the world facing a complex environmental problems related to each trouble that connected to one another and come out with greater impacts to the environment and humans. This is because the effects of environmental only can be seen in long term period rather than immediately result show up. Environmental issues must become one of the controversial matters in the society in order to make people know the truth what the world currently facing. There were a lot of environmental disaster happened such as climate change, global warming, various of pollutions, earthquake and etc. the rise of environmental issues begin with this urban development occur through several countries following with the technologies equip along. For sure, development will cause a huge negative impact to the environment if it deals without a care. Besides, the environment is the place in the ecosystem to hold and use in finding resources to continuously survive in this world. Thus, the finding and digging for the resources which happening extensively without preservation will not restore the surrounding similar with before. But then, the change cannot be refuse and people need to take an action to save the threaten the world and the ecosystem from being extinct. If each country has own output in causing an environmental problem, then consider the world to hold all the damage occurred. Exposing the effects of environmental issues throughout the world, make people realize the important to take care the environment.
In 1927, for the first time in history, the world’s population reached two billion people. In 2011, less than one hundred years later, it passed seven billion (Worldometers). Some may think that this is a positive increase, creating economic growth and significant innovations in fields such as agriculture, industry and medicine. However, the amount of difficulties our species will encounter over the next century because of this population increase, will greatly outweigh those few optimistic beliefs. For example, twelve to fifteen million hectares of forest are lost every year, the equivalent of thirty six football fields per minute (World Wildlife Fund). In 2011, there were an estimated nine and a half billion metric tonnes of carbon emissions put into our atmosphere (CO₂ Now). The list could go on and on, but ultimately, these are all just contributors to what might be humanity’s most challenging problem yet: climate change.
People have been relying for their daily needs and well-being on nature. The natural ecosystem provides varieties of goods and services to us, for instance, fresh water, fisheries, timber, water purification etc. The benefits that people directly get from the natural systems are called ecosystem services (ES).