期刊名称：Journal of Environmental Science and Natural Resources
印刷版ISSN：2408-8633
出版年度：2019
卷号：12
期号：1-2
页码：143-149
DOI：10.3329/jesnr.v12i1-2.52010
出版社：Bangladesh Society for Conservation of Environment and Natural Resources
摘要：Ecological Footprint (EF) assessment helps to identify what activities are having the biggest impact on nature and opens up possibilities to reduce our impact and live within the means of one planet. The introduction of EF has been very necessary for the context of Bangladesh especially in the industrial areas such Gazipur as the endless demand and the unplanned consumption pattern of the population here have been producing a very unsustainable situation. Thus this study intends to initiate it by calculating the Ecological Footprint of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), one of the important residential area of Gazipur and major consuming areas of that city as a sustainability indicator. Basic equation for assessing EF has been done according to Nunes et al. (2013). EF has been calculated for these components: energy, food, waste and building material consumption. Questionnaire survey has been conducted to gather information about consumption pattern for different components in the households of BARI residential area. The study also identified consumption of natural gas for household purpose as the most contributing factor in the footprint of BARI residential area followed by waste, building materials and electricity consumption.
关键词：BARI; Ecological footprint; Energy; Food; Natural gas
