How Many People Can the Earth Support?

By: Joel E. Cohen

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Hardcover | 1 March 1996

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Past attempts to answer this question have ranged widelyfrom less than 1 billion to more than 1,000 billion - one sign that there is no single right answer. More than half of the estimates, however, fall within a much narrower range: between 4 billion and 16 billion. In any case, with the world population now at 5.7 billion, and increasing by approximately 90 million per year, we have clearly entered a zone where limits on the human carrying capacity of the Earth have been anticipated, and may well be encountered.
In this penetrating analysis of one of the most crucial questions of our time, a leading scholar in the field reviews the history of world population growth and gives a refreshingly frank appraisal of what little can be known about its future. In the process, he offers the most comprehensive account yet available of how various people have tried to estimate the planet's human carrying capacity. Few contemporary writers have addressed the issue of world population growth in such a balanced, objective way, without using it as a pretext to advance a prior political agenda.

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Population & Demography Politics & Government Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning The Environment Environmental Management Engineering & Technology Environmental Science Social Impact of Environmental Issues Economics

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Introduction	p. 3
Between Choices and Constraints	p. 5
Past Human Population Growth	p. 23
Four Evolutions in Population Growth	p. 25
People Control the Growth of Nonhuman Populations	p. 32
People Control the Growth of Human Populations	p. 46
Human Population History in Numbers and Graphs	p. 76
The Uniqueness of the Present Relative to the Past	p. 97
Future Human Population Growth	p. 107
Projection Methods: the Hazy Crystal Ball	p. 109
Scenarios of Future Population	p. 136
What Do We Know for Sure about the Future of Global Population?	p. 153
The Human Carrying Capacity of the Earth	p. 159
Eight Estimates of Human Carrying Capacity	p. 161
Estimates of Human Carrying Capacity: a Survey: of Four Centuries	p. 212
Carrying Capacity in Ecology and Applied Ecology	p. 237
Human Choices	p. 261
Water: a Case Study of Natural Constraints	p. 297
Natural Constraints and Time	p. 329
Human Carrying Capacity: an Overview	p. 356
Conclusion: Human Caring Capacity	p. 365
Entering the Zone	p. 367
Looking beyond the Next Hill: Some Suggestions	p. 380
Conversion Ratios	p. 399
Notes	p. 447
Bibliography	p. 481
Acknowledgments	p. 505
Index	p. 507
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