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Synopsis
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 such distinguished 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 underlying fertility changes, and global development issues. The writers take into account the effects of increasing competitoin 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.
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About the Author
Kerstin Lindahl Kiessling is a Professor Emeritus and Chairperson, Committee on Science in Society at Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Hans Landberg is a Research Associate at the Stockholm Environment Institute.
Review
`This book provides valuable insight into the topics covered, benefits from contributions from several disciplines and will be of general interest to most individuals interested in processes of social and economic development and their environmental impacts.' Clement A. Tisdell, Jnl of Development Studies, Vol.35, No.4, Apr.99.
`can be warmly commended for its attempt to examine root causes. Too many books on population, environment or development concentrate on symptoms rather than causes. This book explores in-depth why individuals do things that militate against their own long-term needs, and those of everyone else ... read this readable book.' Norman Myers, Times Higher Education Supplement
`The contributions are, as befits such pieces, tried and true ... the main body of this book contains a series of strong essays - not a bad one to be found - aimed at the non-Mandarin ... The volume would make an excellent reader at either the advanced undergraduate level or graduate level, or for a researcher who just wants to become informed about various aspects of population, economy, and environment.' Population and Development Review
`The contributions to this book provide many insights into different aspects of the population-development-environment issue.' Population Studies
...the book is still valuable. - Professor R H Cassen. Population Studies.
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Population, economic development, and the environment / edited by Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling and Hans Landberg
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xxii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Population, development, and institutional change: summary and analysis / Tommy Bentsson, Christer Gunnarsson -- The environmental resource base and human welfare / Partha Dasgupta, Carl Folke, Karl-Göran Mäler -- Population and reasoned agency: food, fertility, and economic development / Amartya Sen -- An ecologist view of the Malthusian conflict / C.S. Holling -- 'Children are like young bamboo trees': potentiality and reproduction in Sub-Saharan Africa / Caroline Bledsoe -- Economic analysis of fertility: micro-foundations and aggregate implications / Robert J. Willis -- Government, population, and poverty: a 'win-win' tale / Nancy Birdsall -- Institutional analysis of fertility / Geoffrey McNicoll -- The relevance of Malthus for the study of mortality today: long-run influences on health, mortality, labour force participation and population growth / Robert Fogel. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 423998
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