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Population growth and environmental issues

edited by Shridath Ramphal and Steven W. Sinding ; foreword by Nafis Sadik

(Environmental literacy series / Ruth A. Eblen, William R. Eblen, series editors)

Praeger, 1996

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"René Dubos Center for Human Environments"

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Scholars, political leaders, and experts in international development issues offer their responses to the need for up-to-date information about the linkages between population growth and three significant environmental issues: global warming, land use, and natural resource management. Collectively, the chapters in this volume look at the demographic facts and their interpretations, and beyond these facts to theories about consumption, technological development, and collective behavior. Of particular concern throughout are the issues of poverty and the implications for the health and welfare of the poor people whose very lives are at stake in the global discussion about population growth and environment.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Nafis Sadik Series Foreword by Ruth A. Eblen and William R. Eblen Preface by Sir Shridath Ramphal and Steven W. Sinding Abbreviations and Acronyms Population and Global Warming Global Energy and Electricity Futures by Chauncey Starr Climate Change Projections by Robert Coppock The Developing Countries: The China Example by Vaclav Smil Potential Impacts of Climate Change on World Food Supply: A Summary of A Recent International Study by Cynthia Rosenszweig and Martin L. Parry Population and Land Use Future Global Population Growth by Carl Haub Population Growth and Land-Use Changes in the Philippines by Maria Concepcion J. Cruz Population, Aquaculture, and Environmental Destruction: The Gulf of Fonseca, Honduras by Billie R. DeWalt, Philippe Vergne, and Mark Hardin Population and Land-Use Change in the Brazilian Amazon by Charles H. Wood and Stephen G. Perz Who Is Changing the Land? Lifestyles, Population, and Global Use Change by Gerhard Heilig International Migration and Environmental Refugees by Evan Vlachos Understanding the Relationship Between Human Population, Wildlife, and the Environment by Patricia Waak Population and Air/Water Resource Management Air/Water Pollution Issues in the Mega-Cities by Ellen M. Brennan Linkage Between Population Growth and Air/Water Pollution in China by Zhang Zhirong Conclusions by Sir Shridath Ramphal and Steven W. Sinding References Index

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