Population Growth and Environmental Issues

by Shridath Ramphal, Steven W. Sinding

Overview

Scholars, political leaders, and experts in international development issues offer their responses to the need for up-to-date information about the linkages between population growth and three significant environmental issues: global warming, land use, and natural resource management. Collectively, the chapters in this volume look at the demographic facts and their interpretations, and beyond these facts to theories about consumption, technological development, and collective behavior. Of particular concern throughout are the issues of poverty and the implications for the health and welfare of the poor people whose very lives are at stake in the global discussion about population growth and environment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275953713
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/25/1996
Series:	Environmental Literacy Series
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

SHRIDATH RAMPHAL is Co-chairman of the United Nations Commission on Global Governance.

STEVEN W. SINDING is Director of Population Sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Nafis Sadik
Series Foreword by Ruth A. Eblen and William R. Eblen
Preface by Sir Shridath Ramphal and Steven W. Sinding
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Population and Global Warming
Global Energy and Electricity Futures by Chauncey Starr
Climate Change Projections by Robert Coppock
The Developing Countries: The China Example by Vaclav Smil
Potential Impacts of Climate Change on World Food Supply: A Summary of A Recent International Study by Cynthia Rosenszweig and Martin L. Parry
Population and Land Use
Future Global Population Growth by Carl Haub
Population Growth and Land-Use Changes in the Philippines by Maria Concepcion J. Cruz
Population, Aquaculture, and Environmental Destruction: The Gulf of Fonseca, Honduras by Billie R. DeWalt, Philippe Vergne, and Mark Hardin
Population and Land-Use Change in the Brazilian Amazon by Charles H. Wood and Stephen G. Perz
Who Is Changing the Land? Lifestyles, Population, and Global Use Change by Gerhard Heilig
International Migration and Environmental Refugees by Evan Vlachos
Understanding the Relationship Between Human Population, Wildlife, and the Environment by Patricia Waak
Population and Air/Water Resource Management
Air/Water Pollution Issues in the Mega-Cities by Ellen M. Brennan
Linkage Between Population Growth and Air/Water Pollution in China by Zhang Zhirong
Conclusions by Sir Shridath Ramphal and Steven W. Sinding
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

Thirteen essays respond to the need for up-to-date information about the linkages between population growth and three significant environmental issues: global warming, land use, and air/water resource management. The authors look at the demographic facts and their interpretations, and beyond them to consumption and human behavior, as well as the technologies. Their focus is on the issue of poverty and the effects on the health and welfare of the poor people whose livelihood is at stake in these issues. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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