ABSTRACT
Ecology is the study of the relationships between organisms and their environment; the “economics” of the Earth and its totality of life forms. The human carrying capacity of a specific area may be a hundred people with a hunting and gathering economy but may be a thousand people if their subsistence system is agriculture. Carrying capacity can be defined in a number of ways but is commonly viewed as a measure of the maximum number of individuals of a species that can be supported within a specific ecosystem for a specific period of time. The number of organisms an environment can support is called its carrying capacity and is dependent on the availability of necessary resources, with population limited by the least-available resource. In human carrying capacity, the variables of culture must be factored into the determination.
