By Maureen Mellody,Board on Environmental Change and Society,Committee on Population,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Life Sciences,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council
The Earth's inhabitants, at the moment 7.2 billion, is predicted to upward push at a quick cost over the following forty years. present projections nation that the Earth might want to aid 9.6 billion humans by way of the yr 2050, a determine that climbs to almost eleven billion through the 12 months 2100. even as, most folks envision a destiny Earth with a better usual way of life than we at present have - and, consequently, larger intake of our planetary assets. How can we organize our planet for a destiny inhabitants of 10 billion? How can this inhabitants progress be accomplished in a fashion that's sustainable from an financial, social, and environmental perspective?
Can Earth's and Society's platforms Meet the desires of 10 Billion People? is the precis of a multi-disciplinary workshop convened by way of the nationwide Academies in October 2013 to discover how you can raise the world's inhabitants to ten billion in a sustainable manner whereas at the same time expanding the health and wellbeing and traditional of dwelling for that inhabitants. This file examines key matters within the technology of sustainability which are with regards to total human inhabitants dimension, inhabitants progress, getting older populations, migration towards towns, differential intake, and land use swap, by way of diverse subpopulations, as considered in the course of the lenses of either social and usual science.
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Can Earth's and Society's Systems Meet the Needs of 10 Billion People?: Summary of a Workshop by Maureen Mellody,Board on Environmental Change and Society,Committee on Population,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Life Sciences,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council
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