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Human population reduction is not a quick fix for environmental problems

Corey J. A. Bradshaw and Barry W. Brook
PNAS November 18, 2014 111 (46) 16610-16615; first published October 27, 2014; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1410465111
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The Environment Institute and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
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  1. Edited by Paul R. Ehrlich, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, and approved September 15, 2014 (received for review June 5, 2014)

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vol. 111 no. 46 16610-16615
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1410465111
PubMed: 
25349398

Published By: 
National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in issue November 18, 2014.
  • Published first October 27, 2014.


Author Information

  1. Corey J. A. Bradshaw1 and
  2. Barry W. Brook
  1. The Environment Institute and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
  1. Edited by Paul R. Ehrlich, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, and approved September 15, 2014 (received for review June 5, 2014)

Footnotes

  • ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: corey.bradshaw{at}adelaide.edu.au.
  • Author contributions: C.J.A.B. and B.W.B. designed research; C.J.A.B. and B.W.B. performed research; B.W.B. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; C.J.A.B. analyzed data; and C.J.A.B. and B.W.B. wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no conflict of interest.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

  • Data deposition: Data available from the Aekos Data Portal, www.aekos.org.au (dx.doi.org/10.4227/05/53869A9434A46).

  • This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1410465111/-/DCSupplemental.

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