Hagamos los Centros Educativos más verdesla huella ecológica del Instituto "Vega del Táder" de Molina de Segura en el curso 2004
- Hernández Laguna, Enrique
- Orenes, Esteban
- Ayuso Fernández, Gabriel Enrique
ISSN: 1132-9157
Year of publication: 2005
Volume: 13
Issue: 2
Pages: 185-189
Type: Article
More publications in: Enseñanza de las ciencias de la tierra: Revista de la Asociación Española para la Enseñanza de las Ciencias de la Tierra
Abstract
The ecological footprint was proposed by Wackernagel and Rees in 1996 as an indicator that measures the ecologically productive soil surface that is necessary to support the activities and garbage production of human activities on a territory. It analyses sustainability in ecological terms but in an understandable fashion, using scientific data. It allows analysts, planners, politics and governments to evaluate the impact of an economical subsystem taking into account its use of natural resources. It is also an efficient tool to assign a sustainable development value to a territory that is threatened by the degradation of its resources. This work describes the classroom experience of students in the Earth Science and Environment class, in the calculation of the ecological footprint of their school.