Carrying capacity
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The carrying capacity of an ecosystem is the maximum population size of a living biological species that can be sustained by that specific environment, given the food, habitat, water, and other resour
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Sustainable population
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The concept of sustainable population concerns how human numbers interact with environmental limits, economic systems, and social equity. While human population size contributes to ecological impact,
Carrying capacity
…the past before finally being applied to human population limits in the 1950s. The notion of carrying capacity for humans is covered by the notion of sustainable population. An early detailed examination of global limits on human population was published in the 1972 book Limits to Growth, which has prompted follow-up…
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