Overview
Focuses on the Earth’s carrying capacity to service the needs of its human populations and preserve ecosystems
Provides a realistic assessment of where the world is now with respect to global populations and what can be done to adapt to changes
Discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the world’s societies and how they have reacted
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The purpose of the book is to provide those in decision-making roles and those that advise them with a sound set of facts and figures to think about to support their decisions/actions. A secondary purpose is to present data that stresses the need to act now, firmly and with investment to plan to adapt to changing conditions rather than wait until forced to do so. The book also discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the world’s societies and how they have reacted. The book will be of use to students in first/second year of college/university programs in Environmental Sciences/Studies, demographics, and ancillary fields such as agriculture science, urban/land use planners, political science, public health, and consultants at academic and professional levels.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Frederic R. Siegel is Professor Emeritus at The George Washington University. His books Applied Geochemistry (1974), Geoquimica Aplicada (1991), Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards in Development Planning (1996), Environmental Geochemistry of Potentially Toxic Metals (2001/2002), Demands of Expanding Populations and Development Planning (2008), Countering 21st Century Social-Environmental Threats to Growing Global Populations (2015), Mitigation of dangers from Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards (2016), Cities and Mega-Cities (2018), and Adaptations of Coastal Cities to Global Warming, Sea Level Rise, Climate Change and Endemic Hazards (2020) reflect Dr. Siegel’s cumulative teaching and research experience in theoretical and applied exploration and environmental geochemistry, and his work to alleviate or eliminate environmental problems related to physical, social, chemical, and economic conditions associated with planned development projects.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Earth’s Human Carrying Capacity
Book Subtitle: Limitations Assessed, Solutions Proposed
Authors: Frederic R. Siegel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73476-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73475-6Published: 03 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73478-7Published: 04 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73476-3Published: 02 August 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 154
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environment, general, Environmental Management, Sustainable Development, Food Science