Carrying capacity: the tradition and policy implications of limits
ABSTRACT: Within just the last few centuries, science and technology have enlarged human capabilities and population size until humans now take, for their own use, nearly half of the Earth's net terrestrial primary production. An ethical perspective suggests that potentials to alter, or further...
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| Language: | English |
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Inter-Research
2001-01-01
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| Series: | Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics |
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| Online Access: | http://www.int-res.com/articles/esep/2001/article1.pdf |