Population, Resources, and the Environment
Author : Norman Myers
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Author : Norman Myers
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Author : Robert J. Mayhew
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0295749911
For centuries, thinking about the earth's increasing human population has been tied to environmental ideas and political action. This highly teachable collection of contextualized primary sources allows students to follow European and North American discussions about intertwined and evolving concepts of population, resources, and the natural environment from early contexts in the sixteenth century through to the present day. Edited and introduced by Robert J. Mayhew, a noted biographer of Thomas Robert Malthus—whose Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), excerpted here, is an influential and controversial take on the topic—this volume explores themes including evolution, eugenics, war, social justice, birth control, environmental Armageddon, and climate change. Other responses to the idea of new "population bombs" are represented here by radical feminist work, by Indigenous views of the population-environment nexus, and by intersectional race-gender approaches. By learning the patterns of this discourse, students will be better able to critically evaluate historical conversations and contemporary debates.
Author : Lori M. Hunter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 2022-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030764338
This handbook presents a timely and comprehensive overview of theory, data, methods and research findings that connect human population dynamics and environmental context. It presents regional summaries of empirical findings on migration and environmental connections and summarizes environmental impacts of migration – such as urbanization and deforestation. It also offers background on the health implications of environmental conditions such as climate change, natural disasters, scarcity of natural resources, as well as on resource scarcity and fertility, gender considerations in population and environment, and the connections between population size, growth, composition and carbon emissions. This handbook helps readers to better understand the complexities within population-environment connections, in addition to some of the opportunities and challenges within environmental demography. As such this collection is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and policy analysts in the areas of demography, migration, fertility, health and mortality, as well as environmental, global and development studies.
Author : Paul R. Ehrlich
Publisher :
Page : 1051 pages
File Size : 10,76 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Human ecology
ISBN :
Author : Mostafa Kamal Tolba
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1483163571
Earth and Us: Population, Resources, Environment, Development is a compilation of ideas and thoughts of leading international statesmen, political leaders, economists and environmentalists, on the complex interlinkages between man and his environment. The book examines aspects of the nexus between population, resources, environment and development, and presents ideas on what can be done in the future. The articles contained in the book covers various topics such as environmental concerns in the third world; climatic change, environment and development; environmental aspects of agricultural and rural development; and environmental protection and economic development. Environmentalists, ecologists, and policy makers will find the book highly insightful.
Author : Lori M. Hunter
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780833043689
This report discusses the relationship between population and environmental change, the forces that mediate this relationship, and how population dynamics specifically affect climate change and land-use change.
Author : J. Perry Gustafson
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 17,77 MB
Release : 2020-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 0826274404
This timely collection of 15 original essays written by expert scientists the world over addresses the relationships between human population growth, the need to increase food supplies to feed the world population, and the chances for avoiding the extinction of a major proportion of the world's plant and animal species that collectively makes our survival on Earth possible. These relationships are highly intertwined, and changes in each of them steadily decrease humankind’s chances to achieve environmental stability on our fragile planet. The world population is projected to be nine to ten billion by 2050, signaling the need to increase world food production by more than 70 percent on the same amount of land currently under production—and this without further damaging our fragile environment. The essays in this collection, written by experts for laypersons, present the problems we face with clarity and assess our prospects for solving them, calling for action but holding out viable solutions.
Author : Paul R. Ehrlich
Publisher : San Francisco : W. H. Freeman
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Man
ISBN : 9780716706809
Numbers of peoples. Population structure and projection. The limits of the earth. Food production. Environmental threats to man. Ecosystems in jeopardy. Optimum population and human biology. Birth control. Fa, ily planning and population control. Social, political, and economic changes. The international scene.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 38,73 MB
Release : 2005-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309096553
Population, Land Use, and Environment: Research Directions offers recommendations for future research to improve understanding of how changes in human populations affect the natural environment by means of changes in land use, such as deforestation, urban development, and development of coastal zones. It also features a set of state-of-the-art papers by leading researchers that analyze population-land useenvironment relationships in urban and rural settings in developed and underdeveloped countries and that show how remote sensing and other observational methods are being applied to these issues. This book will serve as a resource for researchers, research funders, and students.
Author : Jenny Goldie
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 27,59 MB
Release : 2014-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1486301908
Sustainable Futures explores the links between population growth, diminishing resources and environmental challenges, and the implications for Australia's future. Written by leaders in their field, and based on presentations from the 2013 Fenner Conference on 'Population, Resources and Climate Change', this book is a timely insight into the intertwined challenges that we currently face, and what can be done to ensure a sustainable and viable future. The book identifies the major areas of concern for Australia's future, including environmental, social and economic implications of population growth; mineral and natural resources; food, land and water issues; climate change; and the obstacles and opportunities for action. Accessible, informative and authoritative, Sustainable Futures will be of interest to policy makers, students and professionals in the fields of sustainability and population growth.