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Environmental Health Resilience
| Content Provider | PubMed Central |
|---|---|
| Author | Kelley, Tim |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | The capacity of the Earth’s environment to support increasing and expanding human populations has been questioned at least for hundreds of years, but never more than in the mid to late 20th Century and early 21st Century. Global human population now exceeds seven billion and continues to increase at an unprecedented rate. Estimates of future (2050) human populations on Earth range from a low of about 7.4 billion to a high of 10.6 billion (“United Nations World Population to 2300”, 2004 accessed at http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/longrange2/WorldPop2300final.pdf). Current human populations already place an extreme burden on global environmental resources, including air, water and food quality as well as increasing challenges related to human waste management and disease prevention, control and treatment. In fact, some have proposed that humans have entered the “anthropocene”, an age in which the global environment is dominated by human activities (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121101131609.htm). |
| Related Links | http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/EHI.S11687 |
| Ending Page | 31 |
| Page Count | 3 |
| Starting Page | 29 |
| File Format | |
| ISSN | 11786302 |
| e-ISSN | 11786302 |
| Journal | Environmental Health Insights |
| Volume Number | 7 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Libertas Academica |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | Libertas Academica |
| Subject Keyword | Research in Higher Education |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Pollution Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law |
