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  2. Carrying capacity - Wikipedia

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    The carrying capacity of an environment is the maximum population size of a biological species that can be sustained by that specific environment, given the food, ...

  3. Tourism carrying capacity - Wikipedia

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    Tourism carrying capacity (TCC) is an imperfect [1] but useful approach to managing visitors in vulnerable areas. [2]

  4. Maximum sustainable yield - Wikipedia

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    At intermediate population densities, also represented by half the carrying capacity, individuals are able to breed to their maximum rate. At this point, called the maximum sustainable yield, there is a surplus of individuals that can be harvested because growth of the population is at its maximum point due to the large number of reproducing ...

  5. Deadweight tonnage - Wikipedia

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    Deadweight tonnage is a measure of a vessel's weight carrying capacity, not including the empty weight of the ship. It is distinct from the displacement (weight of water displaced), which includes the ship's own weight, or the volumetric measures of gross tonnage or net tonnage (and the legacy measures gross register tonnage and net register tonnage).

  6. Talk:Carrying capacity - Wikipedia

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    RBlew 16:29, 3 February 2018 (UTC) Carrying Capacity is a multivocalic concept [] – which itself has a carrying capacity of how many different meaning a word can have. Depending on context carrying capacity can be in a closed system where a number can be applied as in engineering with the load bearing capacity of a bridge, the time till ...

  7. Containerization - Wikipedia

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    The size and capacity of the Conex were about the same as the Transporter, [nb 1] but the system was made modular, by the addition of a smaller, half-size unit of 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) long, 4 ft 3 in (1.30 m) wide and 6 ft 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (2.10 m) high.

  8. Human overpopulation - Wikipedia

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    Attempts have been made to estimate the world's carrying capacity for humans; the maximum population the world can host. [131] A 2004 meta-analysis of 69 such studies from 1694 until 2001 found the average predicted maximum number of people the Earth would ever have was 7.7 billion people, with lower and upper meta-bounds at 0.65 and 98 billion ...

  9. Feasibility study - Wikipedia

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    A feasibility study is an assessment of the practicality of a project or system. A feasibility study aims to objectively and rationally uncover the strengths and weaknesses of an existing business or proposed venture, opportunities and threats present in the natural environment, the resources required to carry through, and ultimately the prospects for success.