The People and Their Planet

This book brings together research on the relations between people and the planet's living and non-living resources. Its three main foci include the methodological approaches to the study of relationships between people and land use, patterns of consumption, population trends and the availability of food and water resources; an examination of evidence of disequilibria in increasing conflicts, migrations, and over-crowding; and a search for balance between people and the other elements of the biosphere through understanding and overcoming destructive forces.

VIRGINIA DEANE ABERNETHY Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN G.T. AGYEPONG Director, Remote Sensing Applications Unit, Department of Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra, RICHARD E. BILSBORROW The Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC JOHN ELDER Professor, Program in Environmental Studies, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT ROBERT ENGELMAN Director, Population and Environment Program, Population Acton International, Washington, D.C. NASIM FIRDAUS Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dhaka, Bangladesh LAUREL HEYDIR The School of Law and Population Research Center, Sriwijaya University, Palembang, Indonesia HAYDEA IZAZOLA Consultant-Demographer, Colina del Sur, Mexico D.F. JEFFREY N. JORDAN Senior Scientist, The Futures Group International, Washington, D.C. SAI FELICIA KRISHNA-HENSEL Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Global Studies, Auburn University, Montgomery, AL VÉRONIQUE LASSAILLY-JACOB Geographer, Centre for African Studies, French National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris CATHERINE M. MARQUETTE Consultant, Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway FRANCISCO PICHON Center for Development Studies, University of Bergen, Norway DENNIS PIAGES Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD SANDRA L. POSTEL Global Water Policy Project, Amherst, MA ROBERTO SANCHEZ Program Manger for Transboundary Issues, Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Montreal, Canada ALEX DE SHERBININ Population-Environment Fellow at IUCN-The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland MARK TULLIS Folio, Inc., Provo, UT.