For decades, wildlife managers have clung to the notion of carrying capacity as if it were a law of nature — a neat number representing how many elephants a reserve can sustain. It is time we call ...

The environmental devastation caused in the Himalayan States of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Sikkim has reinvigorated the debate on the “carrying capacity’ of the regions. The Supreme Court of ...

Carrying capacity came from livestock management in the US in the early twentieth century, where calculating how many cattle a pasture could support before overgrazing was a matter of profit. But ...