How does population affect the ecological sustainable development?
The greater the population, the greater the burden upon available natural resources. Therefore, a smaller, more manageable population for a region shall allow for a more ecological sustainable development. You may be asking about the term, Carrying Capacity, or the ability an environment can support without significant negative impacts to the given organism and its environment. The carrying capacity of an environment may vary for different species and may change over time due to a variety of factors, including: food availability, water supply, environmental conditions and living space. As the environment is degraded, carrying capacity actually shrinks, leaving the environment no longer able to support even the number of people who could formerly have lived in the area on a sustainable basis. No population can live beyond the environment’s carrying capacity for very long. It is believed that we, humans, have already exceeded our carrying capacity to flourish upon the Earth at our curren
