Increasing sustainability in cities as interface
point between human and resource results in consolidation of this relationship.
Measuring ecological footprint of surrounding cities and metropolises specifies
the effects of human resources community on natural resources and with periodic
reviews of these effects in the future, sources and fate will be determined. One of the most important objectives in managing the urban environment
is maintaining city sustainability that reducing the degree of ecological
footprint can be useful. Ecological footprint is an index of sustainability
that assesses the amount of human consumption and the effect of the use on the
environment. Several programs have been presented against population density in
metropolis that establishment of new cities surrounding metropolis is one of
important factors to attract overflow crowd.
But, unfortunately, satellite cities have been dealt with significant
infrastructure problems. This study aims to measure one of sustainable
development indicators (ecological
footprint) in Pardis city. The amount of ecological footprint in transport
sector was obtained using component method and through calculating the three main
products including gasoline, petrol and CNG. The amount of footprint equaled to
0.0042 hectares per person in the transport sector that can be compared to
rates of per capita ecological footprint of
the city that equals to 0.311. It can be concluded that Pardis city has
acceptable ecological footprint in transport sector.
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