Paper Title
Evaluatıng Ecological Footprint in Turkey; School of Tobacco Expertise Students Case Study
Abstract
Human beings have an enormous impact on the natural environment, and ultimately on each other. These impacts
are closely related with the consumption patterns, habits and also economic conditions of our own. For the last tree decades
researchers developed many methods to evaluate the impact of humans on environment. One of the methods is calculating
ecological footprint. The Ecological Footprint (EF) is defined as "the area of productive land and water ecosystems required
producing the resources that the population consumes and assimilate the wastes that the population produces, wherever on
Earth the land and water is located. The Ecological Footprint is derived by tracking how much biologically productive area it
takes to absorb a population’s carbon dioxide emissions and to generate all the resources it consumes. The main objective of
the study is to find out EF of university students who are studying at School of Tobacco Expertise in Manisa Celal Bayar
University, Turkey. The data were collected via a survey study which was conducted to all active students. The derived data
was analyzed online EF calculator. The result of the survey was compared to the recent EF report of Turkey to evaluate the
variations.
Keywords - Ecological footprint, environment, university students, Turkey