Achieving Sustainability

Sustainable Development‘Meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability

of future generations to meet their own needs’.

What Is An Ecological Footprint?

‘It is way of expressing an individuals impact on the planet, usually expressed as the number of planets needed to support the individuals needs if everyone on the planet

lived in the same way.’

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Which Countries Have The Biggest Ecological Footprints?Can We Identify Any Patterns?

Rank City Planets Consumed

1 = Newport 2.78

1 = Plymouth 2.78

3 = Salisbury 2.79

3 = Kingston Upon Hull 2.79

3 = Stoke on Trent 2.79

6 = Gloucester 2.81

6 = Wakefield 2.81

8 Sunderland 2.83

9 = Truro 2.84

9 = Wolverhampton 2.84

Rank City Planets Consumed

51 Portsmouth 3.21

52 Cambridge 3.22

53 Durham 3.24

54 Southampton 3.27

55 = Oxford 3.40

55 = Canterbury 3.40

57 Brighton 3.47

58 Chichester 3.49

59 St. Albans 3.51

60 Winchester 3.52

Use an atlas to identify the location of the cities/towns shown in the tables below. Use two different colours to identify those places with the lowest/highest ecological footprints.

Humanity’s Ecological Footprint

Quick Skills Test1.What was the ecological footprint of the world’s population in 1970? (approx)2.Which year did the ecological footprint reach 1 planet?3.What are the consequences of continually living beyond the Earth’s capacity?

What Does The Future

Hold?

What can be done to achieve a Sustainable Future?Use the information on pages 163 and 164 to complete the diagram

Use the textbook to write a definition of sustainable development here:

Education Use the textbook to write a definition of ecological footprint here:

Conservation

Recycling Will technology save the day?

One planet future