Population, Economic Development, and the Environment

Zusatztext ...the book is still valuable. - Professor R H Cassen. Population Studies. Klappentext Prompted by growing concern about the environmental impact of high consumption levels and population growth! these interdisciplinary essays explore in depth the connections between population size and growth! environmental destruction! and poverty. The contributors--including suchdistinguished scholars as P. Dasgupta! C. S. Holling! Robert Fogel! Geoffrey McNicoll! Caroline Bledsoe! Robert Willis! Amartya Sen! and Nancy Birdsall--represent the different fields most concerned with this vital topic. They examine three main themes: the Malthusian conflict! factors underlyingfertility changes! and global development issues. The writers take into account the effects of increasing competition for natural resources on social structures! and look at the evolution of the household unit! gender inequality! and the growing gap between children! adults! and the elderly.Because the rapidly increasing stress on the world's natural resource base can give rise to social tension and conflicts! especially in overpopulated areas! this book will be seen as an essential contribution to a critically important international debate. Zusammenfassung Prompted by the growing concern about the environmental impact of high consumption levels and population growth, and by fears of major ecological breakdown, this book looks at the links between demographic trends, economic development, and the environment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Bengtsson and Gunnarsson: Population, Development and Institutional Change: Summary and Analysis 2: Dasgupta, Foke, and Maler: The Environmental Resource Base and Human Welfare 3: Amartya Sen: Population and Reasoned Agency: Food Fertility and Economic Development 4: Holling: An Ecolotist View of the Malthusian Conflice 5: Bledsoe: `Children are like young bamboo trees': Potentiality and Reproduction in Sub-Saharan Africa 6: Willis: Economic Analysis of Fertility: Micro Founcations and Aggregate Implications 7: Birdsall: Government, Population and Poverty 8: McNicoll: Institutional Analysis of Fertility 9: Fogel: The Relevance of Malthus for the Study of Mortality Today ...

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• Authors: CH, Kerstin Lindahl Kiessling, Kerstin Lindahl (Professor Emeritus Kiessling, Kerstin Lindahl Landberg Kiessling, Kiessling Landberg
• Assisted by: Kerstin Lindahl Kiessling (Editor), Kiessling Kerstin Lindahl (Editor), Hans Landberg (Editor), Landberg Hans (Editor), Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.1997
• EAN: 9780198292425
• ISBN: 978-0-19-829242-5
• No. of pages: 306
• Series: Clarendon Paperbacks
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Applied ecology, Pollution & threats to the environment, Population & demography, Population and Demography, Development economics & emerging economies, Pollution and threats to the environment, Development economics and emerging economies