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ecological footprints

ecological footprints is the plural of ecological footprint.

Meaning of ecological footprint

Noun

ecological footprint (plural ecological footprints)

  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.2017, Luca Marazzi, Our Ecological Footprint, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 44

Questions about ecological footprints

What is ecological footprints the plural of?
Ecological footprints is the plural of ecological footprint.

Words near ecological footprints in the dictionary

  1. ecolodge
  2. ecolodges
  3. ecologic
  4. ecological
  5. ecological footprint
  6. ecological footprints
  7. ecological grief
  8. ecological pyramid
  9. ecological pyramids
  10. ecological service
  11. ecological services

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