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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/123456789/4367| Title: | Carrying capacity: the tradition and policy implications of limits |
| Keywords: | Carrying capacity Population Environment Limits Ethics Worldviews |
| Issue Date: | 30-May-2013 |
| Publisher: | Inter-Research |
| Description: | 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 increase, humanity's use of global resources should be scrutinized through the lenses of self-interested foresightedness and respect for non-human life. Without overtly invoking ethics, studies of the carrying capacity achieve just this objective. Carrying capacity is an ecological concept that expresses the relationship between a population and the natural environment on which it depends for ongoing sustenance. Carrying capacity assumes limits on the number of individuals that can be supported at a given level of consumption without degrading the environment and, therefore, reducing future carrying capacity. That is, carrying capacity addresses long-term sustainability. Worldviews differ in the importance accorded to the carrying capacity concept. This paper addresses three worldviews - ecological, romantic, and entrepreneurial - and explores the ethics and the policy implications of their contrasting perspectives. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/4367 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://www.int-res.com/articles/esep/2001/article1.pdf http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&genre=article&issn=16118014&date=2001&volume=2001&issue=&spage=9 |
| Appears in Collections: | Science General |
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