| Description |
xii, 423 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Note |
"Based on a conference held at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1-3 February 1989." |
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"Population and development review. A supplement to volume 16, 1990." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Population and resources : fact and interpretation / Kingsley Davis -- Sustainable development : from concept and theory to operational principles / Herman E. Daly -- Long-run global population forecasts : a critical appraisal / Ronald D. Lee -- Comment : on the uncertainty of population projections / Griffith Feeney -- Comment : reflections on "time left us" / Kenneth W. Wachter -- Rapid population growth and water scarcity : the predicament of tomorrow's Africa / Malin Falkenmark --Energy, people, and industrialization / Amory B. Lovins -- Land use, migration, and natural resource deterioration : the experience of Guatemala and the Sudan / Richard E. Bilsborrow, Pamela F. DeLargy. |
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World urbanization in perspective / Ira S. Lowry -- On the interactions between climate and society / Michael H. Glantz -- Comment : environmental risk and policy response / Richard Elliot Benedick -- Acid rain and other airborne pollutants : their human causes and consequences / Ellis B. Cowling -- Ocean space : use and protection / Edward D. Goldberg - - The world's forests and human populations : the environmental interconnections / Norman Myers -- Comment : on the medicinal value of tropical ecosystems / Eugene Zavarin -- Comment : population effects on deforestation and soil erosion in China / Jing-Neng Li -- Winners and losers in the twentieth-century struggle to survive / Peter H. Raven. |
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Biomass burning in the tropics : impact on environmental quality and global climate / Meinrat O. Andreae -- Toward a theory of population-development interaction / Nathan Keyfitz -- Comment : the second tragedy of the commons / Ronald D. Lee -- Comment : the "one world" thesis as an obstacle to environmental preservation / Virginia Abernethy -- Comment : adverse environmental consequences of the Green Revolution / David Pimentel, Marcia Pimentel -- The wealth of nations and the environment / Mikhail S. Bernstam -- Population and resources under the socialist economic system / Elwood Carlson, Mikhail S. Bernstam -- Tradeoffs between human numbers and material standards of living / Paul Demeny. |
| Subject |
Population -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.
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Population -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses.
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Natural resources -- Congresses.
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses.
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| Indexed Term |
Environment Effects of Humans |
| Added Author |
Davis, Kingsley, 1908-1997.
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Bernstam, Mikhail S.
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| Added Title |
Population and development review. Vol. 16 (Supplement)
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| ISBN |
0195070496 cloth |
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019507050X paper |
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001950750X paper |
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