After determining the yield factors which are calculated based on the global ecological productive average, the national or regional water resources ECC can be calculated.
The theory is used for estimating the need of ecological productive space area sizes which sustain human natural resource consumption and assimilate the wastes arising from the human, and comparing with the ECC of a given area, through the ecological surplus and deficit (S&D) to measure the sustainable development.
Global Footprint Network includes settlements because they believe once land has been developed, its basic ecological functions have essentially been made "non-productive". While sustainable design practices can help make even developed land restore some its original ecological productivity, the group is largely correct because these practices are still not widespread.
The world's extensive and often remote arid landscapes are receiving increasing attention to maintain their ecological and productive values.
The primary question motivating his research is: How can reliance on ecological processes create productive, resilient, and healthy agricultural systems?
Our design strategy harnesses the potential of current agricultural tools to expand the ecological potential of productive landscapes on a regional scale by designing precise planting / management patterns that produce 4-dimensional spatial experiences.
The organization says that "ecological agriculture is highly productive and the only lasting solution to hunger and poverty".
The frequent use of fire is replacing native species with exotic, aggressive ones and favors grasses over woody species, creating treeless landscapes that are of minimal productive and ecological value.
Results from our workshops suggest that children value forests for a range of reasons that can be categorised as ecological, environmental, social, emotional, productive or economic.
Thus low-output, high-input chemical, industrial monocultures, which in fact have a negative productivity, are artificially rendered more productive than small, biodiverse, ecological farms.
Permaculture (which is portmanteau word – PERMAnent + agriCULTURE) is ecologically balanced agriculture or ecological engineering and architecture of artificial super- productive ecosystem, which requires minimum of human interference and create minimum of negative environmental impact.
