Population, economic development and the environment / edited by Kerstin Lindahl Kiessling and Hans Landberg.

Contributor(s): Kiessling, Kerstin Lindahl | Landberg, Hans Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997. Description: xxii, 284 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 0198292422 (pbk); 0198289502; 9780198292425Subject(s): Population -- Environmental aspects | Economic development -- Environmental aspectsDDC classification: 304.6 Online resources: WorldCat details

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TOC 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.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU MPRHGD Corner	Non-fiction	304.6 POP 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan		22608

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

Includes bibliographical references.

TOC 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.

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.

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