Research Catalog

Title

In the human interest : a strategy to stabilize world population / Lester R. Brown.

Author

Brown, Lester R. (Lester Russell), 1934-

Publication

New York : Norton, [1974]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies.
• Overseas Development Council.

Description

190 pages; 21 cm

Summary

Sponsored by Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies and Overseas Development Council. Bibliography: p. [187]-189.

Subject

• Population
• Population
• population
• Beschränkung
• Bevölkerungswachstum
• Bevolkingsgroei
• population growth
• overpopulation
• population policy
• Ecology
• Food and nutrition
• croissance démographique
• surpopulation
• politique démographique
• crecimiento demográfico
• superpoblación
• política demográfica

Genre/Form

• reference.
• référence bibliographique.
• referencia.

Note

• Sponsored by Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies and Overseas Development Council.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [187]-189.

Contents

Introduction : a conceptual overview -- Pt. I. The demographic backdrop. Evolution of the population problem -- Pt. II. Population growth on a finite planet. Population, affluence, and economic growth -- Growing pressure on world food resources -- Population growth and environmental stress -- Pt. III. Common dependence on scarce resources. Dependence on common global resources -- The global politics of resource scarcity -- Pt. IV. Population growth and social conditions. Population growth and the human condition -- The human condition and population growth -- Pt. V. Confronting the population threat. Evolution of population policies -- Growing awareness of the population threat -- Population strategy for a finite planet -- Only one option.

ISBN

• 0393055264
• 9780393055269
• 0393092887
• 9780393092882

LCCN

74006339

OCLC

• ocm00874171
• 874171
• SCSB-174827

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library