The Malthus-Boserup explanatory framework is revisited from the point of view of viability theory. Instead of imposing a univocal relationship between population pressure and level of knowledge, the way technology will change is not determined, it is only constrained. This leads to regard any situation as associated to a set of reachable futures. When no possibility is left for systems to avoid extinction, systems are no longer viable. Hence, the control-phase space can be divided into regions corresponding to gradual danger or security. This point of view allows the introduction of ideas such as incentives to create or to use new knowledge, gives a role to the threatening power of Malthusian checks, and leaves space for a specific variety of behaviors. The Boserupian theme then appears indirectly, emerging from the constraints imposed by the inertia of technological change.

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马尔萨斯、boserup 和人口生存能力

从生存力理论的角度重新审视马尔萨斯-博塞鲁普的解释框架。与在人口压力和知识水平之间强加一种明确的关系，技术将改变的方式并不确定，它只是受到限制。这导致将任何情况视为与一组可到达的未来相关联。当系统没有避免灭绝的可能性时，系统就不再可行。因此，控制相空间可以划分为对应于逐渐危险或安全的区域。这种观点允许引入诸如创造或使用新知识的激励等思想，赋予马尔萨斯检查的威胁性力量以作用，并为特定的各种行为留出空间。Boserupian主题然后间接出现，