Intending Eden: Parenting, Population, and the Planet

Amid growing political pressure on women to have more children to fend off population decline, Robert Engelman offers an alternative-and hopeful-vision: environmentally sustainable populations stemming from the childbearing intentions of those who conceive and give birth. In this new, updated edition of his book, Engelman offers a sweeping history of human reproduction and shows that the three-way dance of women's autonomy, population, and the natural world is as old as the species itself. ...