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- Title
Scalar considerations in carrying capacity assessment: an Australian example.
- Authors
Lane, Murray; Dawes, Les; Grace, Peter
- Abstract
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's current carrying capacity is estimated to be over 40 million, but if calculated on a regional basis, this is reduced by almost half.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; ECOLOGICAL carrying capacity; FOOD security; TRANSPORTATION; BIOMASS energy; CONSUMPTION (Economics); INTERNATIONAL trade
- Publication
Population & Environment, 2015, Vol 36, Issue 3, p356
- ISSN
0199-0039
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11111-014-0216-1