Carrying Capacity, as I perceive it, is an ecological concept indicating the amount of life supported by a given bioregion. It is a complex web of relationships that expresses, through ebb and flow, the limits and potential of each particular environmental setting. Carrying capacity can also be understood as a measure of tension between the needs of our species and the availability of resources and habitat - one in which the optimal equilibrium allows both humans and nature to thrive. Such an equilibrium can be situational or seasonal, but resides deeply in mutual reciprocity between the humans and their environment.

See also: ecology, complexity, systems theory, relationship, systems change