Food Production, Population Growth, and the Environment

Gretchen Daily; Partha Dasgupta; Bert Bolin; Pierre Crosson; Jacques du Guerny; Paul Ehrlich; Carl Folke; Ann Mari Jansson; Bengt-Owe Jansson; Nils Kautsky; Ann Kinzig; Simon Levin; Karl-Göran Mäler; Per Pinstrup-Andersen; Domenico Siniscalco; Brian Walker

doi:10.1126/science.281.5381.1291

Policy ForumGLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY

Food Production, Population Growth, and the Environment

Gretchen Daily,
Partha Dasgupta,
Bert Bolin,
Pierre Crosson,
Jacques du Guerny,
Paul Ehrlich,
Carl Folke,
Ann Mari Jansson,
Bengt-Owe Jansson,
Nils Kautsky,
Ann Kinzig,
Simon Levin,
Karl-Göran Mäler,
Per Pinstrup-Andersen,
Domenico Siniscalco,
Brian Walker

Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge, Austin Robinson Building, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DD, UK (E-mail: Partha.Dasgupta{at}econ.cam.ac.uk); at the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm, Sweden; and at Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, USA.
Department of Meteorology, University of Stockholm.
Resources for the Future.
Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy.
Department of Systems Ecology, University of Stockholm, and the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm.
Department of Systems Ecology, University of Stockholm.
Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University.
Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm, and the Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm.
International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC. D. Siniscalco is at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milan, Italy.
CSIRO, Lyneham, ACT, Australia.

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Science 28 Aug 1998:
Vol. 281, Issue 5381, pp. 1291-1292
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5381.1291

Gretchen Daily

Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

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Partha Dasgupta

Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge, Austin Robinson Building, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DD, UK (E-mail: Partha.Dasgupta@econ.cam.ac.uk); at the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm, Sweden; and at Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, USA.

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Bert Bolin

Department of Meteorology, University of Stockholm.

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Pierre Crosson

Resources for the Future.

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Jacques du Guerny

Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy.

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Paul Ehrlich

Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

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Carl Folke

Department of Systems Ecology, University of Stockholm, and the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm.

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Ann Mari Jansson

Department of Systems Ecology, University of Stockholm, and the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm.

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Bengt-Owe Jansson

Department of Systems Ecology, University of Stockholm.

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Nils Kautsky

Department of Systems Ecology, University of Stockholm, and the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm.

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Ann Kinzig

Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

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Simon Levin

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University.

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Karl-Göran Mäler

Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm, and the Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm.

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Per Pinstrup-Andersen

International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC. D. Siniscalco is at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milan, Italy.

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Domenico Siniscalco

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Brian Walker

CSIRO, Lyneham, ACT, Australia.

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This Policy Forum is based on the report of a 2-day meeting held on the island of AskÃ¶ in the Stockholm archipelago in September 1997. The meeting was convened by the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. Its aim was to encourage a substantive dialogue among a group of natural and social scientists so as to assess whether an interdisciplinary consensus exists on the issue of food production, population growth, and environmental security.

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