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The document analyzes the ecological footprint and biological capacity of 13 countries. It finds that the United States, Canada, and Australia have the largest ecological deficits, due to their high per capita resource usage. Canada, Australia, Brazil, and Russia have ecological credits as their domestic biocapacity exceeds footprint. The countries are ranked from highest to lowest footprint, with the United States having the highest at 7.2 global hectares per person.

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Activity 1-BORRE

The document analyzes the ecological footprint and biological capacity of 13 countries. It finds that the United States, Canada, and Australia have the largest ecological deficits, due to their high per capita resource usage. Canada, Australia, Brazil, and Russia have ecological credits as their domestic biocapacity exceeds footprint. The countries are ranked from highest to lowest footprint, with the United States having the highest at 7.2 global hectares per person.

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Republic of the Philippines

CENTRAL BICOL STATE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE


San Jose, Pili, Camarines Sur 4418
ISO 9001:2015 www.cbsua.edu.ph
TÜV-R 01 100 1934918

Activity 1.1
Ecological Footprint Analysis

If the ecological footprint per person of a country or the world is larger than its
biological capacity per person to replenish its renewable resources and absorb
the resulting waste products and pollution, the country or the world is said to
have an ecological deficit. If the reverse is true, the country or the world has an
ecological credit or reserve. Use the data to the right to calculate the ecological
deficit or credit for the countries listed. (As an example, this value has been
calculated and filled in for World.)

1. Which three countries have the largest ecological deficits? For each of these
countries, why do you think it has a deficit?
2. Rank the four countries with ecological credits in order from highest to lowest
credit. For each of the four, why do you think it has an ecological credit?
3. Rank all of the countries in order from the largest to the smallest per capita
ecological footprint.
Per Capita Per Capita Ecological
Ecological Biological Credit (+)
Footprint Capacity or Deficit
Place (hectares per (hectares per (−)
person) person) (hectares
per
person)
World 2.7 1.8 -0.9
United States 7.2 3.9 -3.3
Canada 6.4 14.9 8.5
Mexico 3.3 1.4 -1.9
Brazil 2.9 9.6 6.7
South Africa 2.6 1.2 -1.4
Saudi Arabia 4.0 0.7 -3.3
Israel 4.0 0.3 -3.7
Germany 4.6 2.0 -2.6
Russia 4.4 6.6 2.2
India 0.9 0.5 -0.4
China 2.1 0.9 -1.2
Australia 6.7 14.6 7.9
Compiled by the authors using data from World Wide Fund for Nature Living Planet
Report 2012.
1. The three countries with largest ecological deficits are Canada, Australia, and Brazil.
It is mainly because these three countries are using more resources than what their
ecosystems can regenerate. Humanity uses more ecological resources and services
than nature can regenerate through overfishing, overharvesting forests, and emitting
more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than forests can sequester.

2.

Place Per Capita Per Capita Ecological


Ecologica Biological Credit (+) or
l Capacity Deficit (−)
Footprint (hectares per (hectares per
(hectares person) person)
per
perso
n)
Canada 6.4 14.9 8.5
Australia 6.7 14.6 7.9
Brazil 2.9 9.6 6.7
Russia 4.4 6.6 2.2

The four countries with ecological credits ranked in orderly are Canada, Australia,
Brazil, And Russia. These countries have an ecological footprint because they use
less global hectares to sustain their way of life than their own land mass provides.

3.

Place Per Capita


Footprint
Ecological
(hectares per
person)
United States 7.2
Australia 6.7
Canada 6.4
Germany 4.6
Russia 4.4
Saudi Arabia 4
Israel 4
Mexico 3.3
Brazil 2.9
South Africa 2.6
China 2.1
India 0.9

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