Ecological Footprint Analysis

The ecological footprint is the measurement of human consumption of natural assets such as plant-based food, livestock and fish products, forest resources and space for urban infrastructure. In recent years, the growth in Earth’s population has led to the increasing demand for these resources, which causes the ecological footprint exceeds the biocapacity (the productive area that can renew resources and absorb generated wastes such as carbon emissions). To prevent negative effects from excessive use of natural resources, it is important for people and authorities to understand the trends in the ecological footprint.

This project aims to visualize the ecological footprint data by different countries and regions in order to figure out the areas with the greatest ecological deficits and identify the relationship between HDI and the ecological consumption.

The data for this project was downloaded from the Global Footprint Network API.

The brief analysis and visualization for this project can be found here.