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  • The carrying capacity of an environment is the maximum population size of a biological species that can be sustained by that specific environment, given...
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    Tourism carrying capacity (TCC) is an imperfect but useful approach to managing visitors in vulnerable areas. The TCC concept evolved out of the fields...
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  • the resulting awareness of the importance of living within the ecological carrying capacity of the earth, is increasingly necessary. Whether ecoliteracy...
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    Ecological overshoot is the phenomenon which occurs when the demands made on a natural ecosystem exceed its regenerative capacity. Global ecological overshoot...
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    healthy proportion of animal populations within an environment's ecological carrying capacity when natural checks such as natural predators are absent or insufficient...
    156 KB (15,558 words) - 00:46, 30 April 2024
  • about ecological footprints was written by William Rees in 1992. Originally, Wackernagel and Rees called the concept "appropriated carrying capacity". To...
    60 KB (6,621 words) - 09:26, 28 April 2024
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    time led to population increases that push the limits of the ecological carrying capacity, and should a period of climatic instability ensue, collapsing...
    84 KB (9,796 words) - 14:46, 29 May 2024
  • Clem A (1999-12-01). "Carrying capacity reconsidered: from Malthus' population theory to cultural carrying capacity". Ecological Economics. 31 (3): 395–408...
    23 KB (2,582 words) - 17:21, 6 April 2024
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    drive to understand ecological systems and ecological limits — including the fundamental ecological principle of carrying capacity. Applying his national...
    27 KB (2,950 words) - 03:01, 18 October 2023
  • quality and future options by expanding the ‘ecological base’ (ecosystems, ecological carrying capacity, biodiversity) and the ‘public estate’ (universal...
    29 KB (3,856 words) - 02:55, 8 May 2024
  • ecological footprint Global Footprint Network Global Hectare Human population Carrying Capacity Ecological reserve Sustainable Development Ecological...
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    many protected areas. However, population densities are below ecological carrying capacity in many places due to hunting and competition with domestic livestock...
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    Earth's carrying capacity is a central issue in ecological economics. Early economists such as Thomas Malthus pointed out the finite carrying capacity of the...
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  • nitrogen cycle. By choosing sustainable food, we increase the ecological carrying capacity of the earth and deplete the available raw materials less quickly...
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    Ecology (redirect from Ecological)
    portal Carrying capacity Chemical ecology Climate justice Circles of Sustainability Cultural ecology Dialectical naturalism Ecological death Ecological empathy...
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    Ecosystem (redirect from Ecological systems)
    An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.: 458  The biotic and abiotic components...
    63 KB (6,905 words) - 18:22, 6 May 2024
  • can be both harvested and renewed—called renewable resources. The carrying capacity of an ecosystem is reduced over time if more than the amount which...
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  • landscapes or biome regions. In the context of coupled socio-ecological social systems, adaptive capacity is commonly associated with the following characteristics:...
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  • tendency to preserve and expand life. Fifth, they have capacity for behavioral variability. Social ecological models are thus applicable to the processes and...
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    heterodox schools of thought disagree with this as a matter of ideology. An ecological market failure exists when human activity in a market economy is exhausting...
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