POPULATION-ENVIRONMENT DYNAMICS: Ideas and Observations

NESS, Gayl D.; DRAKE, William D.; BRECHIN, Steven R. (Editors)

ISBN 10: 0472103954 / ISBN 13: 9780472103959

Published by University of Michigan, Michigan, 1993

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Grey binding with gold-colored print on spine. Contents are tight sound and unmarked. 456 pages including index. Light shelfwear on Dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 003904

Bibliographic Details

• Title: POPULATION-ENVIRONMENT DYNAMICS: Ideas and Observations
• Publisher: University of Michigan, Michigan
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0472103954
• ISBN 13: 9780472103959
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Illustrated w/charts and Figures
• Edition: First Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Government and Politics
  • General Reference

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Synopsis

Population and environment are topics of intense current discussion and international action. Population growth rates have given rise to the metaphor of an exploding bomb, and accounts of oil spills, droughts, and rain forest destruction appear daily in the news. Despite the crowded agenda, observes Gayl Ness, the relationships between population and the environment still defy clear and comprehensive understanding. While they are closely intertwined in real life, they are separate in much of our thought and action.
The contributors to this volume explore the basis of this separation and offer ways to integrate these closely interconnected areas, providing a forum for dialogue between those who support the interests of each.
Topics covered include population-environment dynamics in historical perspective; constraints on sustainable growth in agricultural production; population as concept and parameter in the modeling of deforestation; powers and limits of the state and technology; resource control, fertility, and migration; and an ecosystem approach to the study of coastal areas.