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The ecosystem—defined as a complex web of interrelating circular flows such as oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, hydrogen, and carbon cycles—constitutes the third major constraint to the functioning of related systems. A brief general-theoretical exposition of the basic relationships constituting the phenomenon has been given in Appendix 4, ‘Major causal linkages between ecosystem and related systems’. In the following, a specific account of the pollution effects and constraints to the ecological carrying capacity in both the sectors of agriculture and industry shall be given.
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Shigeru Ishikawa, Agricultural Development Strategies in Asia: Case Studies of the Philippines and Thailand (Manila: 1970) Asian Development Bank, pp. 30–8. For further discussion on farm-scale size and agricultural ecosystem see Ch. 15.
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Dopfer, K. (1979). Carrying Capacity of the Ecosystem. In: The New Political Economy of Development. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04784-0_11
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