%0 Journal Article
%T Sustainable Economy of Ecological Footprint in Africa: An Economic Analysis and Impacts
%J World Environment
%@ 2163-1581
%D 2013
%I 
%R 10.5923/j.env.20130301.02
%X Ecological footprint is an important measure in calculating the human demands and impacts on our global environment. In this respect the ecological footprint is a function of all the parameters that interact between the power of ecosystem productivity and human interactions and activities on a particular ecosystem or the demand from that ecosystem. The present paper will cover and analyze the ecosystems productivity and the human demand from the ecosystems of African continent. It will produce comprehensive analyses in measuring the possibility of capabilities of the ecosystems in Africa to provide goods and services to the human beings who are living on African continent. Further, the paper will discuss the models that can be used in measuring the sustainability of ecosystem and what we should be doing to maintain the African healthy ecosystems. In this respect, the paper will assess and introduce a comprehensive model that can describe the status of African ecosystems productivities and the impacts of human population on the African continent. Furthermore, the paper will provide some answers to the human issues in Africa, further warning to the current trend in use and abuse of our natural ecosystems in Africa and what will be expecting from these ecosystems to provide the human needs in response to the current use of our global ecosystems. Finally, it will conclude and setup several recommendations to save the African Continent ecosystems from the irreversible impacts of human beings on these ecosystems and also for global environment.
%K Economic Analysis
%K Ecological Footprint (EF)
%K Impacts
%K African Global Biological Capacity (AGBC)
%K African Global Biological Demand (AGBD)
%K African Global Deficit Capacity (AGDC)
%K African Global Ecological Capacity (AGEC)
%K African Sustainability Index or African Maintenance Index (AMI)
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