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ecological footprint
UK/ˌiːkəˈlɒdʒɪkəl ˈfʊtprɪnt/US/ˌiːkoʊˈlɑːdʒɪkəl ˈfʊtprɪnt/e·co·LOG·i·cal FOOT·print
The area of productive land and water required to support a person's or population's consumption and absorb its wastes.
Examples
“Reducing meat consumption is one way to lower your ecological footprint.”
“Urban planners assess ecological footprints to design sustainable cities.”
“Students calculated the ecological footprint of their campus and proposed changes.”
Band 8 sentence
“Transitioning to plant-based diets and improving public transport could substantially lower a country's ecological footprint.”
Collocations
- reduce one's ecological footprint
- calculate ecological footprint
Word family
Common mistakes
carbon footprint→ecological footprint
dấu chân sinh thái (literal translation used inconsistently)→ecological footprint
Say it for a higher band
5ecological impact→6environmental impact→7+ecological footprint
Synonyms
environmental footprint
Easily confused
environmental footprint
“Reducing our environmental footprint is crucial to mitigating climate change.”
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