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Ecological Footprints in Changing Climate: An Overview

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Ecological Footprints of Climate Change

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Human exploitation on the natural resources is continuing in an overwhelming rate. Nonrenewable natural resources are expected to deplete in the near future; in addition, humans are consuming the nonrenewable resources at a rate which is far above the time required for regeneration. The exponential growing population and global economic competency drive the overexploitation of natural resources. Apart from this, the climate change also possesses boundless threat for the natural resources as well as human habitats. Overexploitation of the natural fuels and other resources also amplifies the climate change and can act as a positive cyclic feedback mechanism. These activities drastically decrease the biocapacity and efficiency of the Earth which leads to higher ecological footprint for the products industrialized from the natural resources. The carbon emission is the one of the major contributors of ecological footprint which contributes to global warming- and climate change-related disasters as well as natural resource degradations. This demands the sustainability for land or soil, forest, and aquatic ecosystems as well as for human habitats. Sustainability is the quintessential solution which can supply the remedies for the abovementioned issues. The integrated approach of climate resilience acquiring from the adaptation and mitigation strategies, nature-based solutions, and UN sustainable development goals can deliver minimum ecological footprint generations in milieu of changing climate.

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  2. Department of Environmental Management, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, (COOU), Anambra State, Nigeria

    Angela Oyilieze Akanwa

  3. Department of Space, Government of India, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

    Suresh Kumar

  4. K. Banerjee Centre of Atmospheric and Ocean Studies, IIDS, Nehru Science Centre, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Sudhir Kumar Singh

  5. Department of Geography, Bankura Zilla Saradamani Mahila Mahavidyapith, Bankura, West Bengal, India

    Abira Dutta Roy

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Kumar, S., Chatterjee, U., David Raj, A. (2022). Ecological Footprints in Changing Climate: An Overview. In: Chatterjee, U., Akanwa, A.O., Kumar, S., Singh, S.K., Dutta Roy, A. (eds) Ecological Footprints of Climate Change . Springer Climate. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15501-7_1

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