Confronting a surfeit of people: Reducing global human numbers to sustainable levels: An essay on population two centuries after Malthus

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 21-50

  Smail, J Kenneth ^a  

^a KENYON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carrying capacity; Environmental limits; Global population optimums; Human demography

Indexed keywords

CARRYING CAPACITY; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; MALTHUSIAN THEORY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION POLICY; POPULATION SIZE;

EID: 0036346764     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016327316754     Document Type: Article

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