Analyzing ecological footprint of residential building construction in Adama City, Ethiopia

Environmental Systems Research

Table 2 Ecological footprint of buildings on sampled plots (gha)

	C1	C2	C3	C4	C5	C6	C7	C8	C9	C10	C11	Total
Forest
Material	6.557	6.755	2.381	7.140	2.079	5.916	7.311	7.525	26.045	4.070	30.418	106.197
Fuel	0.282	0.187	0.122	0.201	0.122	0.273	0.354	0.215	0.400	0.171	0.600	2.927
C and DW	5.913	6.593	1.985	6.998	1.985	5.744	7.232	7.403	21.298	3.973	25.579	94.703
CO₂ emission	0.034	0.035	0.013	0.037	0.013	0.033	0.043	0.040	0.094	0.024	0.120	0.486
Cropland
Plot of land	0.071	0.071	0.089	0.080	0.071	0.089	0.089	0.089	0.089	0.178	0.089	1.005
Labor food	0.106	0.114	0.065	0.117	0.065	0.104	0.120	0.120	0.178	0.088	0.219	1.296
Total EF/plot	12.964	13.756	4.655	14.574	4.336	12.159	15.150	15.391	48.103	8.505	57.024	206.6
EF/capita	2.161	1.965	1.164	2.429	1.084	2.027	1.683	2.199	6.872	1.215	8.146
EF/m² (floor area)	0.11	0.13	0.10	0.09	0.09	0.12	0.08	0.11	0.18	0.09	0.18
EF/m² (plot area)	0.07	0.09	0.02	0.07	0.03	0.06	0.05	0.08	0.24	0.02	0.29

Overall computed ecological footprint: EF/capita = 2.952, EF/m² of floor area = 0.130, EF/m² of plot area = 0.083