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How Many People Can the Earth Support?

by Joel E. Cohen

Pages: 532

Contributors: Joel E. Cohen

Publisher: Norton

Place of Publication: New York

Publication Year: 1995

Subjects: Population Forecasting,Population Density,Population--Economic Aspects

Table of Contents

Title Page

Contents

Part 1: Introduction

1: Between Choices and Constraints

Part 2: Past Human Population Growth

2: Four Evolutions in Population Growth

3: People Control the Growth of Nonhuman Populations

4: People Control the Growth of Human Populations

5: Human Population History in Numbers and Graphs

6: The Uniqueness of the Present Relative to the Past

Part 3: Future Human Population Growth

7: Projection Methods: the Hazy Crystal Ball

8: Scenarios of Future Population

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

Part 4: The Human Carrying Capacity of the Earth

10: Eight Estimates of Human Carrying Capacity

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

12: Carrying Capacity in Ecology and Applied Ecology

13: Human Choices

14: Water: a Case Study of Natural Constraints

15: Natural Constraints and Time

16: Human Carrying Capacity: an Overview

Part 5: Conclusion: Human Caring Capacity

17: Entering the Zone

18: Looking beyond the Next Hill: Some Suggestions

Appendix 1: Conversion Ratios

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

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