Population Politics - The Choices That Shape Our Future

List of contents

I: Framing the Issues; 1: Growth; 2: A Global Dilemma; II: Why Growth Flies out of Control; 3: Belief as Part of the Problem; 4: Cultural Brakes; 5: Where to Look for Balance; 6: Which Incentives?; 7: Development Alone May Spur Population Growth; 8: Culture: Make or Break; III: The Big Picture; 9: One-World; 10: Potlatching Twentieth-Century Style; 11: Helping While Not Harming; 12: Conservation, Incentives, and Ethics; 13: Limiting Factors; IV: America; 14: Kissing the Blarney Stone and Other Tales; 15: History Does Not Stop; 16: The Path to Poverty; 17: All Our People; 18: The Carrying Capacity of the United States; 19: And Away We Go; 20: Let Freedom Ring; 21: Taking Hold

About the author

Virginia Abernethy, Garrett Hardin

Summary

Why, after several decades of helping poor countries improve their standard of living, is poverty still the rule? This is a provocative examination of international efforts to regulate fertility rates, and of the influence of aid and liberal policies on world population growth.

Product details

• Authors: Virginia Abernethy, Virginia D. Abernethy, Virginia Hardin Abernethy, Abernethy Virginia, Garrett Hardin, Garrett Abernethy Hardin, Hardin Garrett
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781138530508
• ISBN: 978-1-138-53050-8
• No. of pages: 396
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Population & demography, Population and Demography, Development Studies