Determination of Ecological Footprint of SIU-Faculty of Agriculture and Evaluation in Terms of Landscape Architecture

Authors : Arzu ALTUNTAŞ

Pages : 169-176

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Publication Date : 2020-06-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :In this study, ecological and carbon footprints of students who have undergraduate education in 8 different departments of Siirt University Faculty of Agriculture were calculated. In the research, web-based “Ecological Footprint Survey” was used as data collection tool. Descriptive statistics such as average and standard deviation were used in the analysis of the data. In this context, a survey was applied to 132 students. According to the results of the analysis of the questionnaires, the average ecological footprint of the students of the Faculty of Agriculture was 3.5 gha and the average of carbon footprint was 8.9 tons. The departments of the Faculty of Agriculture were analyzed among themselves and according to the parameters of gender, age, number of family members, but there was no statistically significant difference. According to the results, the ecological footprints of Faculty of Agriculture students was found on the average of Turkey and the world.
Keywords : Ecological footprint, carbon footprint, sustainability, landscape architecture, Siirt University