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Global Ecological Footprint, Climate Change Impacts and Assessment
Titolo Rivista: RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA' 
Autori/Curatori: Hanna Safwat H. Shakir, Kendall T. Harris, Irvin W. Osborne-Lee, Gian Paolo Cesaretti, Rosa Misso, Magdy T. Khalil 
Anno di pubblicazione:  2013 Fascicolo: 2  Lingua: Inglese 
Numero pagine:  30 P. 9-38 Dimensione file:  1391 KB
DOI:  10.3280/RISS2013-002002
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Ecological footprint (EF) is an important measure in calculating the human demands and impacts on our global environment. In this respect, the ecological footprint is a function of all the parameters that interact between the power of ecosystem productivity and human interactions and activities on a particular ecosystem or the demand from that ecosystem. The present paper will cover and analyses the ecosystems’ productivity and the human demand from the ecosystems. It will produce comprehensive analyses in measuring the possibility of capabilities of the ecosystems to provide goods and services to the human beings on our planet Earth. Further, the paper will discuss the models that can be used in measuring the sustainability of ecosystem, climate changes and what we should be doing to maintain the Earth healthy ecosystems. In this respect, the paper will assess and introduce a comprehensive model called Global Ecological Footprint and climate change (GEF-CH) that can describe the status of our ecosystems’ productivities and the impacts of climate change and global human population Earth boundaries. Furthermore, the paper will provide some answers to the human issues globally; Climate change impacts as the results of human activities. Further, warning to the current trend in use and abuse of our natural ecosystems and what will be expecting from these ecosystems to provide the human needs in response to the current use of global ecosystems' existence.

L’impronta ecologica è una misura importante per il calcolo delle esigenze umane e per valutare l’impatto sul nostro ambiente globale. Il presente lavoro analizza la produttività degli ecosistemi e ciò che l’umanità richiede dagli ecosistemi; esso tratta dei modelli che possono essere utilizzati per misurare la sostenibilità degli ecosistemi, i cambiamenti climatici e di ciò che occorre fare per mantenere la salute degli ecosistemi terrestri. In particolare, il documento propone un modello globale chiamato "Global Ecological Footprint and climate change" (GEF-CH) in grado di descrivere lo stato della produttività dei nostri ecosistemi, gli impatti del cambiamento climatico ed i limiti della popolazione umana globale della Terra. Il lavoro propone diverse spunti di riflessione per evitare impatti irreversibili degli esseri umani sugli ecosistemi e sul nostro ambiente globale, tra cui l’impatto del cambiamento climatico.
Keywords: Cambiamento climatico globale, impronta ecologica produttività ecosistemi, popolazione umana globale, sostenibilità, Modello cambiamento climatico e impronta ecologica (GEF-CH)

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