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Population, economic development and the environment /

Population, economic development and the environment / edited by Kerstin Lindahl Kiessling and Hans Landberg. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997. - xxii, 284 p. ; 22 cm.

Hardback edition first published 1994; "Clarendon paperbacks" -- cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Population, development, and institutional change: summary and analysis / Tommy Bentsson, Christer Gunnarsson --
The environmental resource base and human welfare / Partha Dasgupta, Carl Folke, Karl-Göran Mäler --
Population and reasoned agency: food, fertility, and economic development / Amartya Sen --
An ecologist view of the Malthusian conflict / C.S. Holling --
'Children are like young bamboo trees': potentiality and reproduction in Sub-Saharan Africa / Caroline Bledsoe --
Economic analysis of fertility: micro-foundations and aggregate implications / Robert J. Willis --
Government, population, and poverty: a 'win-win' tale / Nancy Birdsall --
Institutional analysis of fertility / Geoffrey McNicoll --
The relevance of Malthus for the study of mortality today: long-run influences on health, mortality, labour force participation and population growth / Robert Fogel. TOC

Summary:
Prompted by growing and urgent concerns about the environmental impact of high consumption levels and population growth, and by fears of major ecological breakdown, this book by distinguished Read more.



0198292422 (pbk) 0198289502 9780198292425


Population--Environmental aspects.
Economic development--Environmental aspects.

304.6 / POP 1994