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A World in Balance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Arthur H. Westing
Arthur H. Westing
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Professor of Ecology and Dean of Natural Science, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002, U.S.A.
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The attempt is made here to provide an approximation of the number of people that the world can support in the light of three constraints: (a) provision for a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of everyone, (b) consideration for wildlife and Nature, and (c) reliance on existing levels of technology and politics. In fact, two alternative standards of living are suggested, ‘affluent’ (based on the standard of the 27 richest nations in the world) and ‘austere’ (based on the standard of the 43 next most wealthy nations in the world).

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1981 , pp. 177 - 183
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1981

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