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Global change and carrying capacity: Implications for life on EarthDetermining the long-term number of people that the planet can support without irreversibly reducing its ability to support people in the future, i.e., the carrying capacity of the Earth, is an exceedingly complex problem. About all that is known for certain is that, with present and foreseeable technologies, the human population has already exceeded the capacity. The reduction in carrying capacity that can be expected to result from direct human impacts on resources and the environment and from our indirect impacts of the climate system is discussed. Global warming and modeling global change and food security are also discussed with respect to carrying capacity.
Document ID
19910008141
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Ehrlich, Paul R.
(Stanford Univ. CA., United States)
Daily, Gretchen C.
(Stanford Univ. CA., United States)
Ehrlich, Anne H.
(Stanford Univ. CA., United States)
Matson, Pamela
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Vitousek, Peter
(Stanford Univ. CA., United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1989
Publication Information
Publication: National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Global Change and Our Common Future. Papers from a Forum
Subject Category
Environment Pollution
Accession Number
91N17454
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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