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The pattern of growing ecological foot-prints is uneven in nature. Analyze with reference to land resources in India.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Resources

The ecological footprint, developed by Mathis Wackernagel and William E. Rees, converts consumption into the biologically productive area required to supply it and absorb its waste, measured in global hectares. Its counterpart is biocapacity, the area actually available.

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  • The concept and its measure
  • The unevenness within India, read through land
  • 1. Between the resource base and the demand upon it
  • 2. Between regions of consumption and regions of extraction
  • 3. Between land types in their capacity to absorb it
  • 4. Between what the accounts record and what the land does
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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