POPULATION GROWTH AND EARTH'S HUMAN CARRYING CAPACITY

被引：304

作者：

COHEN, JE

机构：

[1] Laboratory of Populations, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021

来源：

SCIENCE | 1995年 / 269卷 / 5222期

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D O I：

10.1126/science.7618100

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Earth's capacity to support people is determined both by natural constraints and by human choices concerning economics, environment, culture (including values and politics), and demography. Human carrying capacity is therefore dynamic and uncertain. Human choice is not captured by ecological notions of carrying capacity that are appropriate for nonhuman populations. Simple mathematical models of the relation between human population growth and human carrying capacity can account for faster-than-exponential population growth followed by a slowing population growth rate, as observed in recent human history.

引用

页码：341 / 346

页数：6

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