Dennis MeadowsPublisher: Chelsea Green Publishing CompanyPublication date: May, 2004At the very beginning, I would like to comment on this book with one sentence - "It's a game of idealism, but full of wisdom."IntroductionThe "Limits to Growth: 30-year update" is the third edition of the...
The only thing that could nothappen was for world society to remain forever in unsustainable territory, using more of nature every year than nature produces during that year. Irrespective of what it really said, "growth will come to an end" was the imprecise summary that stuck with the book...
Two of the factors, shear erosion and diffusive mass transfer, which limit the growth of heterogeneous biofilms are considered. For permeable beds of particulates, with a regulated throughflow, equating shear induced erosion and biofilm growth, leads to estimates of biofilm thickness and activity which...
Minorities: Limits to Growth(Season 1, Episode 3) TV Episode|25 min|Drama Edit pageAdd to list No summary details listed.Contribute to this page Status EditReleased Updated1976-10-4 Release date 十月4, 1976(United Kingdom) Try IMDbPro Premium for free ...
To overshoot means to go too far, to grow so large so quickly that limits are exceeded. When an overshoot occurs, it induces stresses—in this case in both natural and social processes—that begin to work to slow and stop growth. If humanity does not correct its condition of overshoot, ...
Technical summary How does GDP per person relate to the achievement of well-being as targeted by the 2030 Agenda? The 2030 Agenda includes global ambitions to meet human needs and aspirations. However, these need to be met within planetary boundaries. In nascent world-earth modelling, human ...
An article called, “Recalibration of limits to growth: An update of the World3 model” by Arjuna Nebel and others was published earlier this year in the Journal of Industrial Ecology. The summary exhibit of their findings is shown here as Figure 8. Figure 8. Output of recalibrated Limits ...
Widely recognized as a significant carbon sink, North American forests have experienced a history of recovery and are facing an uncertain future. This growing carbon sink is dictated by recovery from land-use change, with growth trajectory modified by en
Taken together, reproductive responses to fertility might be positive or negative, depending on allocation to growth and reproduction. As mentioned above in the context of current model assumptions, the implications of fecundity for landscape recruitment has to combine ISP with the turnover of species...
To those contemplating the use of such methods we say: “hands-off. Leave countries to find their own road to a fuller life of their citizens””. "For most of the last century, economic growth was fuelled by what seemed to be a certain truth: the abundance of natural resources. We ...