Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Pioneer and Contemporary Studies in Engineering, Enes YİĞİT,Umut ÖZKAYA, Editör, Duvar Publishing, İzmir, ss.75-98, 2023
Ecological footprint is an important concept as being a tool which reveals impacts of human beings on natural systems coming out from all types of vital
activities such as their own life, production and services, as based on concrete data. In this study, research was made about how Covid-19 pandemic affecting
the whole world and causing various changes in our daily lives, influenced part of people's consumption habits and ecological footprint values in accordance.
For this aim, a consumption habits change survey constituted of 30 questions has been prepared, and the study group was comprised of 500 people from
different age groups, education levels and income levels. As the outcome of research, the highest and lowest ecological footprint values of individuals
before the Covid-19 pandemic were determined as 11.9 global hectares and 6.3 global hectares, respectively, whereas during the Covid-19 pandemic, these
values were determined as 11.4 global hectares and 4.0 global hectares, respectively. While the average ecological footprint values of the participants
before the Covid-19 pandemic were 8.4 global hectares, it was found out that this value was 8.1 global hectares during the Covid-19 pandemic. During the
Covid-19 pandemic period, while the ecological footprint of 50.83% of individuals on a global hectare basis increased, 27.50% of them decreased and
21.67% of them had no change.