Browsing Serials by Subject "POPULATION GROWTH"
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One Planet, How Many People? A Review of Earth’s Carrying Capacity - A Discussion Paper for the Year of RIO+20 - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) June 2012
(2012-06)It is estimated that global population reached seven billion in late 2011 or early 2012. As global population has doubled since the 1960s, per capita GDP has grown to more than ten times what it was then. The human impact ... -
One Small Planet, Seven Billion People by Year's End and 10.1 Billion by Century's End - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) June 2011
(2011-06)Even though the global growth rate peaked more than 40 years ago, it is estimated that there will be another billion added over the next 15 years and yet another billion before mid-century.