WORLD POPULATION: PAST, PRESENT, & FUTURE - Hardcover

Gonzalo, Julio A; Alfonseca, Manuel; Munoz Perez, Felix-Fernando

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9813140992 ISBN 13: 9789813140998

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2016

Synopsis

World Population: Past, Present, & Future uses a multidisciplinary approach to investigate in depth on important aspects of the evolution of world population not well addressed previously. The authors from the Universidad Autonoma, Madrid (Spain), professors Julio A Gonzalo, Manuel Alfonseca, and Félix-Fernando Muñoz, point out that the recent pronounced growth in world population (accompanied by an even more pronounced growth in agricultural production) was due mainly to the increase of life expectancy and not to the (inexistent) growth in fertility rate. Using a 'rate equations' approach for the first time, they describe population trends and forecast the possibility of steps up (or down) in population rather than the exponential growth predicted by UN demographers around 1985 and thereafter. This book provides a new perspective that our planet is not overpopulated and could, in fact, house a considerably larger population.

About this title

About the Author:

Julio A. Gonzalo, Professor of Physics, Departamento de Fisica de Materiales:
Professor Gonzalo has lectured at several prestigious academic and research institutes around the world, and was organizer and chairman of several international conferences on ferroelectricity. His research interests include ferroelectricity, phase transitions as well as materials physics in general.Manuel Alfonseca is Professor of Computer Sciences and Former Director of the Scool of Engineering at the UAM. He was previously  Senior Technical Staff Member at the IBM Madrid Scientific ResearchCenter. He has published over 200 papers ans over 40 books on computer languages,simulations, complex systems, artificial intelligence and theoretical computer science as well as popular science.
Felix Fernando Muñoz is Associate Professor of Theoretical Economics at the Faculty of Economics, UAM, and at the University Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, and is autor of sevel books on Theoretical Economics.

About this edition

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 9813140992
• ISBN 13: 9789813140998
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176