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Uncharted territory - environment and population beyond six billion

Unbekanntes Territorium - Umwelt und Bevölkerung jenseits sechs Milliarden
[working paper]

Benedick, Richard Elliot

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Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH

Abstract

"That human populations can exert strains upon their natural surrounding is nothing new. However, from the dawn of history until about thirty years ago, the impacts of human activities were primarily localized. Early regional civilizations – Mesopotamia in the Near East, Mohenjo Daro in Southwest As... view more

"That human populations can exert strains upon their natural surrounding is nothing new. However, from the dawn of history until about thirty years ago, the impacts of human activities were primarily localized. Early regional civilizations – Mesopotamia in the Near East, Mohenjo Daro in Southwest Asia, the Mayans of Central America, possibly the Anasazi in the southwest of what is now the United States – collapsed due to a likely combination of overpopulation and scarcity or depletion of arable land and water supply. In some places, archaeologists have found evidence of adverse environmental effects caused by deforestation and by gradual salinization of irrigated land. The final blow may have been a regional climate change: a succession of unusual dry years, probably ascribed by local spiritual leaders to angry or capricious gods. Many centuries before the Aswan High Dam, Herodotus wrote of salinization in the Nile Delta. Much later, rapid industrialization in Europe and North America was accompanied by severe local pollution of air and water." (excerpt)... view less


"Im Verlaufe dieses Jahrhunderts wird sich die Weltbevölkerung irgendwo in der Größenordnung zwischen acht und zwölf Milliarden Menschen einpendeln. Viele Analytiker sehen angesichts dieser Dynamik die Tragfähigkeit des ökologischen Systems Erde überschritten. Die Ansprüche an die Waldbestände, die ... view more

"Im Verlaufe dieses Jahrhunderts wird sich die Weltbevölkerung irgendwo in der Größenordnung zwischen acht und zwölf Milliarden Menschen einpendeln. Viele Analytiker sehen angesichts dieser Dynamik die Tragfähigkeit des ökologischen Systems Erde überschritten. Die Ansprüche an die Waldbestände, die Wasservorräte, das Klimasystem sind jedenfalls enorm, wie in diesem Beitrag im Detail festgestellt wird. Ob es jedoch zur erfolgreichen Umsetzung der auf der Bevölkerungskonferenz von 1994 in Kairo beschlossenen Maßnahmen und Ziele (Konzept der reproductive health) kommen wird, ist trotz dieser bedrohlichen Trends fraglich. Der Autor geht daher der Frage nach, unter welchen Bedingungen die Kairo-Ziele trotz aller gegenteiligen Evidenz doch noch realisiert werden könnten." (Autorenreferat)... view less

Keywords
area; population density; growth; underdevelopment; population; international agreement; climate change; ecology

Classification
Ecology, Environment
Population Studies, Sociology of Population

Method
empirical; quantitative empirical

Document language
English

Publication Year
2000

City
Berlin

Page/Pages
26 p.

Series
Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Technik - Arbeit - Umwelt, Forschungsprofessur Umweltpolitik, 00-406

Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications

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