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Population and environment : rethinking the debate

Title: Population and environment : rethinking the debate / edited by Lourdes Arizpe, M. Priscilla Stone, and David C. Major.
Publication: Boulder : Westview Press, 1994.

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viii, 352 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Alternative Title

Population & environment.

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Contents

Rethinking the Population-Environment Debate -- 1. The Social Dimensions of Population / Lourdes Arizpe and Margarita Velazquez -- 2. World Population Trends: Global and Regional Interactions Between Population and Environment / Wolfgang Lutz -- 3. Women, Poverty and Population: Issues for the Concerned Environmentalist / Gita Sen -- 4. The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India / Bina Agarwal -- 5. The Relation Between Population and Deforestation: Methods for Drawing Causal Inferences from Macro and Micro Studies / Alberto Palloni -- 6. Population Change and Agricultural Intensification in Developing Countries / Richard E. Bilsborrow and Martha Geores -- 7. The Social Context of Land Degradation ("Desertification") in Dry Regions / Peter D. Little -- 8. The Socioeconomic Matrix of Deforestation / Marianne Schmink -- 9. Problems of Population and Environment in Extractive Economies / Stephen G. Bunker.
10. Urbanization and the Environment in Developing Countries: Latin America in Comparative Perspective / Bryan R. Roberts -- 11. Conclusions: Rethinking the Population-Environment Debate.

ISBN

0813388430 (alk. paper)

LCCN

94002805

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Columbia University Libraries