Human population dynamics revisited with the logistic model: How much can be modeled and predicted?

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-30

  Marchetti, Cesare ^a   Ausubel, Jesse H ^b   Meyer, Perrin S ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOGISTIC MODEL; MODELLING APPROACH; POPULATION DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ESTIMATION TECHNICS; FERTILITY; FORECASTING; LENGTH OF LIFE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NATURAL RESOURCES; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION FORECAST; RESEARCH; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; WORLD;

DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; ENVIRONMENT; ESTIMATION TECHNICS; FERTILITY; LENGTH OF LIFE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; NATURAL RESOURCES; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION FORECAST; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; WORLD;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; FERTILITY; FORECASTING; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; STATISTICS;

EID: 0030472493     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1625(96)00001-7     Document Type: Article

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