Scalar considerations in carrying capacity assessment: an Australian example

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• 作者：Murray Lane (1)
  Les Dawes (1)
  Peter Grace (1)
  
  1. Queensland University of Technology ; GPO Box 2434 ; Brisbane ; QLD ; 4001 ; Australia
  
• 关键词：Carrying capacity ; Population ; Geographic scale ; Dashboard model ; Self ; sufficiency
• 刊名：Population and Environment
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：March 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：36
• 期：3
• 页码：356-371
• 全文大小：550 KB
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• 刊物主题：Demography; Environment, general; Population Economics; Public Health; Sociology, general;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-7810

文摘

Regional resource self-sufficiency has been proposed as a way to improve food security by lessening the demand on long-distance transport. An online tool, the Carrying Capacity Dashboard, was developed for Australian conditions in order to gauge self-sufficiency at three different scales: regional, state and national. It allows users to test a variety of societal behaviours such as diet, biofuel production, farming systems and ecological protection practices. Analysis developed from the Dashboard tests the effects of various resource consumption patterns on land carrying capacity. Findings reveal that Australia鈥檚 current carrying capacity is estimated to be over 40 million, but if calculated on a regional basis, this is reduced by almost half.