Maharashtra State PSC Model Paper 3

The correct answer is Both 1 and 2.

• The ecological footprint is the biologically productive area needed to provide for everything used by people. It is a tool that measures how much biologically productive land and the sea is used by a given population. Hence statement 1 is correct.
• It is measured by Global Footprint Network at the global level. Hence statement 2 is also correct.
• Measurement of Ecological Footprint-
  • An amount of material consumed by that person (tons per year) is divided by the yield of the specific land or sea area (annual tons per hectare) from which it was harvested, or where its waste material was absorbed.

Ecological Overshoot

It occurs when a when a population’s demand on an ecosystem exceeds the capacity of that ecosystem to regenerate the resources it consumes and absorb its wastes.