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Population and land use in developing countries : report of a workshop
- Title
- Population and land use in developing countries : report of a workshop / Carole L. Jolly and Barbara Boyle Torrey, editors ; Committee on Population, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council.
- Publication
- Washington, DC : National Academy Press, 1993.
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- Description
- xi, 159 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Note
- Committee chairman: Samuel H. Preston.
- "...report summarizes the discussions and papers presented at a Committee...workshop."
- Contents
- 1. Introduction / Carole L. Jolly and Barbara Boyle Torrey -- 2. Population, Land Use, and Environment: A Long History / M. Gordon Wolman -- 3. What Is Meant by Land Use Change? / Isaak S. Zonneveld -- 4. An Ecological Perspective on Population Change and Land Use / Steward T.A. Pickett -- 5. Northern Nigeria: Land Transformation Under Agricultural intensification / Michael Mortimore -- 6. India: Population Pressure, Technology, Infrastructure, Capital Formation, and Rural Incomes / Robert E. Evenson -- 7. Mauritius: Population and Land Use / Wolfgang Lutz and Einar Holm -- 8. Honduras: Population, Inequality, and Resource Destruction / Billie R. DeWalt, Susan C. Stonich and Sarah L. Hamilton -- 9. Population Growth, Environmental Change, and Innovation: Implications for Sustainable Growth in Agriculture / Vernon W. Ruttan -- Appendix: Workshop Agenda.
- ISBN
- 0309048389
- LCCN
- 93086389
- OCLC
- ocm29713192
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries