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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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- Description
- viii, 352 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Alternative Title
- Population & environment.
- Subject
- Note
- Cover title: Population & environment.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
- OCLC
- 29751839
- ocm29751839
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries