The Concept of Carrying Capacity in the Study of Culture Process

Ecologia política e estratégias de sustentabilidade: uma reflexão teórica

“…A categoria capacidade de suporte, porém deve inserir em seu modelo de análise outras variáveis como sugere Glassow (1978). O modelo de pressão populacional sobre os recursos que incorpora a análise da capacidade de suporte deve ser utilizado em circunstâncias de rápido crescimento populacional e modificação ambiental.…”

Conceptual issues in environmental archaeology

“…Glassow 1978), and the resulting ideas were so far from the original population concepts that they required to be embedded in a rather different theoretical background (e.g. Cohen 1977).…”

“…A hierarchy of population concepts (based on data in Glassow 1978). Glassow (1978) is less helpful in distinguishing two different uses the term 'carrying capacity': (1) an abstract concept in theoretical instructs, and (2} a measure of snecific asnects of a relationshio of the term carrying capacity : (1) an abstract concept m theoretical constructs, and (2) a measure of specific aspects of a relationship between a population and its environment. Such a distinction corresponds to no more than the difference between a concept and its operationalisation.…”

“…Glassow's main contribution lies in formulating a formal relationship between the concepts of population pressure and carrying capacity, as well as other economic concepts (Glassow 1978). Fig.…”

Archaeological Investigations of The Little Cypress Bayou Site (3CT50) Crittenden County, Arkansas. Volume 1

“…Recently, there has been a profuse number of anthropological studies refuting the Malthusian theory that population grows inherently until checked by the limits of the subsistence base (Glassow 1977(Glassow , 1978Cowgill et al n.d.).…”