Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Carrying capacity


Carrying capacity is the capacity of an ecosystem to support healthy organism to maintain its productivity, adaptability and capability for renewal. There are limits to the carrying capacity of the earth’s
ecosystem and to the impacts that they can with stand without deteriorating dangerously. Policies that bring human numbers and life styles into balance with the earth’s carrying capacity that must be complemented by technologies that enhance that capacity by careful management.


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