How Many People Can the Earth Support?

Name: How Many People Can the Earth Support?
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ISBN: 9780393314953

ISBN-10: 0393314952

ISBN-13: 9780393314953

Edition: 1996

Authors: Joel E. Cohen

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List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/17/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.93" long x 0.13" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Joel E. Cohen is Abby Rockefeller Mauzï¿½ Professor of Populations at Rockefeller University and Professor of Populations at Columbia University.




Introduction



Between Choices and Constraints



Past Human Population Growth



Four Evolutions in Population Growth



People Control the Growth of Nonhuman Populations



People Control the Growth of Human Populations



Human Population History in Numbers and Graphs



The Uniqueness of the Present Relative to the Past



Future Human Population Growth



Projection Methods: the Hazy Crystal Ball



Scenarios of Future Population



What Do We Know for Sure about the Future of Global Population?



The Human Carrying Capacity of the Earth



Eight Estimates of Human Carrying Capacity



Estimates of Human Carrying Capacity: a Survey: of Four Centuries



Carrying Capacity in Ecology and Applied Ecology



Human Choices



Water: a Case Study of Natural Constraints



Natural Constraints and Time



Human Carrying Capacity: an Overview



Conclusion: Human Caring Capacity



Entering the Zone



Looking beyond the Next Hill: Some Suggestions



Conversion Ratios


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index