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1. • • In 2012, as the human population reached 7 billion, Robert Engelman, President of the Worldwatch Institute, advanced 9 strategies to halt global population growth. He suggested that humanity had to stop short of 9 billion to accomplish environmentally sustainable prosperity.
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   Are human numbers the key to long-term environmental sustainability?

   • The simple reality is that acting on both, consistently and simultaneously, is the key to long-term environmental sustainability. The sustainability benefits of level or falling human numbers are too powerful to ignore for long. In the U.S., this discussion remains muted all the same.

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   Does population size affect environmental sustainability?

   • Yet despite increasing scientific evidence demonstrating ways in which population size, growth, and distribution tend to undermine various aspects of environmental sustainability, and increasing public awareness and concern for environmental degradation, linking these issues remains a contested and polarised enterprise.

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   How do population dynamics affect environmental sustainability?

   • As such, climate change, the health of the seas and freshwater, soil fertility, food security, the maintenance of biological diversity, forests and fisheries, and more, are all indicators of environmental sustainability. While we acknowledge that population dynamics impact these indicators differently, we approach them as a whole.

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   What is environmental sustainability?

   • We abide by John Morelli’s definition of environmental sustainability as both ‘meeting the resource and services needs of current and future generations without compromising the health of the ecosystems that provide them’ ( Morelli, 2011, p. 6).

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3. www.scientificamerican.com › article › populationPopulation and Sustainability: Can We Avoid Limiting the ...

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   Jun 1, 2009 · Population and Sustainability: Can We Avoid Limiting the Number of People? Slowing the rise in human numbers is essential for the planet--but it doesn't require...

   • Author: Robert Engelman

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   Jun 1, 2009 · Engelman (2009) reminds us the general logical rejection of compulsory "population control" over families and the strategy that 179 nations signed onto at a United Nation conference in Cairo in...

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   Sep 8, 2023 · Population size is one of the variables that impact environmental sustainability, but hardly the only one. There is concern that addressing the linkage may divert attention from other important drivers of environmental impact ( Bradshaw & Brook, 2014 ; Delacroix, 2022 ; Roberts, 2017 ).

6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Robert_EngelmanRobert Engelman - Wikipedia

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   Robert Engelman is an American author and former journalist who writes about the environment and population and serves as Senior Fellow at the Worldwatch Institute. He was President of the institute from 2011 until 2014. His book More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want was published in 2008.

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     BSR Conference 2012 – An Interview with Robert Engelman, President of Worldwatch Institute

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   Robert Engelman . SCIENTIFIC UNCERTAINTY AND ITS POLICY IMPLICATIONS The rapid expansion of human activities in recent decades is the decisive factor in the alteration of the natural resource base that has been available to societies for millennia.

9. www.carnegiecouncil.org › media › articleSUSTAINABILITY FORUM: The Population and Sustainability ...

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   Sep 15, 2011 · A Non-Growing Population Is Necessary for True Sustainability. Robert Engelman Scale and change are fundamental determinants of environmental sustainability, and demographic trends are fundamental to human scale and change.

10. www.jstor.org › stable › 44319197Imagining a Stabilized Atmosphere: Population and ... - JSTOR

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    Robert Engelman is director of the population and environment program at Population Action International. He has written extensively on environmental communication,