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Title

Population growth, resource consumption and the environment : seeking a common vision for a troubled world / prepared by Rick Searle.

Publication

Victoria, B.C. : Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, [1995], ©1995.

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• Searle, D. Richard (Donald Richard), 1951-
• University of Victoria (B.C.). Centre for Studies in Religion and Society.

Description

xxii, 112 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• The pressing global problem "Population and the Environment: Population Pressures, Resource Consumption, Religions, and Ethics" was the topic of discussion during the International Summer Institute organized by the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society (University of Victoria), held at Chateau Whistler (Whistler, British Columbia), 18-27 August 1993.
• Leading scholars from Europe, South Asia, the United States, and Canada gathered at Whistler, B.C., to examine the role of religion in shaping people's attitudes and behavior toward the environment, the pressure of increasing population, and the use of earth's resources. To those in developed countries the biggest threat to the environment often seems to be the world's rapidly expanding population.
• However, from the perspective of developing countries, the problem is not too many people, but the excessive use of the world's resources by the relatively small population of the rich developed countries. It is this double-sided problem that was examined by ethics specialists from the major world religions and the aboriginal traditions, as well as experts in economics, law, family planning, and demography.
• Also, fellowships had been awarded to eight graduate students from across Canada to enable them to participate. The event was not an academic conference but a series of working research seminars aimed at producing public-policy recommendations for decision makers in government, religions, corporations, and NGOs. This book presents a public-policy summary of the academic chapters presented at the Summer Institute.

Subject

• Population policy > Moral and ethical aspects > Congresses
• Environmental policy > Moral and ethical aspects > Congresses
• Environmental protection > Religious aspects > Congresses
• Conservation of natural resources > Moral and ethical aspects > Congresses
• Politique démographique > Congrès
• Environnement > Congrès
• Conservation des ressources naturelles > Congrès

Note

• "Based on the 1993 International Summer Institute, Population and the environment: population pressures, resource consumption, religion and ethics, Chateau Whistler, Whistler, B.C., Canada, 18-27, 1993".

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Foreword / Harold Coward -- Sect. I. The Planetary Crisis. The Human Context. The Natural Background -- Sect. II. Religious Ethical Perspectives. Aboriginal Spirituality. The Environmental Crisis and Jewish Earthways. Chosen Persons and the Green Ecumenacy: A Possible Christian Response to the Population Apocalypse. Islam and the Environment. Population Pressure, Natural Resources, the Environment, and Hinduism. Buddhist Resources for Issues of Population and Consumption in Relationship with the Environment. Chinese Religions -- Sect. III. Secular Ethical Perspectives. Prescriptions from Religious and Secular Ethics for Breaking the Impoverishment/Environmental Degradation Cycle. Ethics, Family Planning, the Status of Women, and the Environment. Projected Population Patterns, North-South Relations, and the Environment -- Sect. IV. Economic, Legal, and Deep Ecological Perspectives. Environmental Degradation and the Religion of the Market.
• International Law, Population Pressure, and the Environment: North-South Relations. The Northern Consumption Issue After Rio and the Role of Religion in Environmentalism -- Sect. V. Responses from Business, Religion, and Governments. Possible Response Options for Corporations. Possible Response Options for Religions. Possible Response Options for Governments. Sect. VI. Conclusions and Recommendations.

ISBN

1550580647 :

LCCN

cn 94910830

OCLC

ocm31287188

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Columbia University Libraries