Explanation The ecological footprint is used to measure the area of biologically productive land and water that is required by an individual, a population, or an activity to produce all the resources it consumes. It is also important to absorb the waste it generates using the prevailing technology and resource management practices. Biological capacity is the measurement of the ability of an area’s ecosystem to regenerate the renewable resources used by a population, city, region, country, or the world in a given time period and to absorb the resulting waste and pollution. If the total ecological footprint in a defined area is lesser than its biological capacity, then the area is said to have ecological credit. The ecological footprint of the countries is given in the following table: Place Per Capita Ecological Footprint (hectares per person) Per Capita Biological Capacity (hectares per person) Ecological Credit (+) or Deficit (-) (hectares per person) World 2.6 1.8 -0.8 United States 6.8 3.8 -3 Canada 7.0 13 6 Mexico 2.4 1.3 -1.1 Brazil 2.5 9 6...

The ranking of the countries on the basis of the highest to lowest ecological credit, and the reason behind the countries to have the ecological credit.

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