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, presently 7.2 billion, is predicted to upward thrust at a fast price over the following forty years. present projections nation that the Earth might want to aid 9.6 billion humans via the 12 months 2050, a determine that climbs to just about eleven billion by means of the yr 2100. whilst, most folk envision a destiny Earth with a better common way of life than we presently have - and, hence, higher intake of our planetary assets. How will we organize our planet for a destiny inhabitants of 10 billion? How can this inhabitants progress be completed in a fashion that's sustainable from an fiscal, social, and environmental perspective?
Can Earth's and Society's structures Meet the wishes of 10 Billion People? is the precis of a multi-disciplinary workshop convened by means of the nationwide Academies in October 2013 to discover tips on how to raise the world's inhabitants to ten billion in a sustainable means whereas concurrently expanding the future health and conventional of residing for that inhabitants. This document examines key matters within the technological know-how of sustainability which are with regards to total human inhabitants dimension, inhabitants development, getting older populations, migration towards towns, differential intake, and land use switch, by way of various subpopulations, as considered during the lenses of either social and traditional science.
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