Town-planning development of territories: ecological restrictions
The modern data are given in the article on the mankind approaching the consumption of resources of the Earth's biological productive limits. For this purpose a new concept «ecological footprint» (the author - M. Wackernagel) is used. The ecological footprint is a territory of the earth and water eco-systems which produces resources consumed by one individual (or town, country, mankind) and assimilates the wastes produced by him. The analysis of the «ecological footprint» shows an unacceptable rapid growth of its global boarders which already exceed the planet square. Relatively rich people, towns and developed countries impose a larger loading on the earth than the inhabitants of poor countries. In some areas of the Earth the ecological footprint is sufficiently exceeded, there is needed an immediate ecologization of territories and towns