Population-Supporting Capacities A Case Study in the Central Himalayas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11936211 |
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| Authors | Paul J Martins (University of Toronto, corresponding author), Jagdish C Nautiyal |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 312-330 |
| Publication date | 1988-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-0188 • E-ISSN: 1743-2790 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/030801888791320255 |
| OpenAlex | W4232654659 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
A methodology incorporating an integrated basic-needs approach has been introduced to determine the population-supporting capacity (PSC) of a forest-dependent region. The linear programming technique was employed to model six different scenarios. Each model is a mathematical representation of the many physical, biological, ecological, socio-economic, administrative and political constraints of what constitutes a realistically attainable and improved future version of the present hill farming system. The population specified by PSC represents the maximum number of people which can be sustained in perpetuity without degrading the environment or depleting the resource base – given some acceptable and desired levels of welfare and environmental quality.In these impoverished rural areas, any definition of improved welfare must necessarily mean the provision of increased supplies of the basic material needs of the population. The determination of PSC allows the quantification of many hitherto unsolved problems relating to issues of overpopulation and allows the determination of optimum population levels to proceed with greater insight and on a more realistic basis. Measures to avert or escape problems associated with overpopulation must be initiated as soon as possible if the required effort to do so is to be minimised and if the welfare of society is expected to rise. These efforts include the immediate initiation of aggressive population control policies as well as the rehabilitation of degraded forest lands
Agriculture · Business · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Natural resource economics · Overpopulation · Perpetuity · Population · Population control · Population growth · Public economics · Resource (disambiguation · Sociology · Welfare · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Computer Science · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
| Highly cited | No |
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