3.1.3 Ecological footprints

Content

• Geographic inquiry and concept(s)
  • How global development processes affect resource availability and consumption
• Geographic knowledge and understanding
  • Measuring trends in resource consumption, including individual, national and global ecological footprints
• Case study or detailed examples
  • Neither required by the syllabus
• Aims of this lesson
  • Be able to explain how resource consumption can be measured
  • Be able to evaluate ecological footprints as a measure of resource consumption
  • Be able to describe trends in individual, national and global ecological footprints
  • Be able to link ‘development’ to changes in ecological footprint

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