Carrying capacity of U.S. agricultural land: Ten diet scenarios

Abstract Strategies for environmental sustainability and global food security must account for dietary change. Using a biophysical simulation model we calculated human carrying capacity under ten diet scenarios. The scenarios included two reference diets based on actual consumption and eight “Health...

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Main Authors: Christian J. Peters, Jamie Picardy, Amelia F. Darrouzet-Nardi, Jennifer L. Wilkins, Timothy S. Griffin, Gary W. Fick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioOne 2016-07-01
Series:Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
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Online Access:http://elementascience.org/article/info:doi/10.12952/journal.elementa.000116