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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2014. Can Earth's and Society's Systems Meet the Needs of 10 Billion People?: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18817.
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Appendix C

Acronyms

BMI

body mass index

EPA

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

FAO

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

GCAM

Global Change Assessment Model

GDP

gross domestic product

HANPP

Human Appropriation of Net Primary Productivity

IDA

International Development Association

IIASA

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

IPAT

impact, population, affluence, and technology model

IPCC

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

iPETS

integrated Population-Economy-Technology-Science Model

NCAR

National Center for Atmospheric Research

NRC

National Research Council

PIES

Population-Inequality-Environmental and Economic Sustainability Model

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2014. Can Earth's and Society's Systems Meet the Needs of 10 Billion People?: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18817.
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RCP

representative concentration pathway

SRES

Special Report Emissions Scenarios

SSP

shared socioeconomic pathway

STIRPAT

Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence, and Technology Model

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2014. Can Earth's and Society's Systems Meet the Needs of 10 Billion People?: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18817.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2014. Can Earth's and Society's Systems Meet the Needs of 10 Billion People?: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18817.
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The Earth's population, currently 7.2 billion, is expected to rise at a rapid rate over the next 40 years. Current projections state that the Earth will need to support 9.6 billion people by the year 2050, a figure that climbs to nearly 11 billion by the year 2100. At the same time, most people envision a future Earth with a greater average standard of living than we currently have - and, as a result, greater consumption of our planetary resources. How do we prepare our planet for a future population of 10 billion? How can this population growth be achieved in a manner that is sustainable from an economic, social, and environmental perspective?

Can Earth's and Society's Systems Meet the Needs of 10 Billion People? is the summary of a multi-disciplinary workshop convened by the National Academies in October 2013 to explore how to increase the world's population to 10 billion in a sustainable way while simultaneously increasing the well-being and standard of living for that population. This report examines key issues in the science of sustainability that are related to overall human population size, population growth, aging populations, migration toward cities, differential consumption, and land use change, by different subpopulations, as viewed through the lenses of both social and natural science.

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