World Population

A Reference Handbook, 2nd Edition

By:

Geoffrey Gilbert

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Hardback

Series:

Contemporary World Issues

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Exhaustively updated, this second edition provides a current assessment of world population and the range of economic, social, and environmental issues it raises. * Primary documents including "Warning to Humanity, November 18, 1992" from the Union of Concerned Scientists, which warns of the perils of continued population growth among the poorer nations and continued "overconsumption" by the richer ones * A chronology of population "milestones," such as the 1968 publication by the Sierra Club of Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb, which built public awareness of the effects of rapid population increase

Author Biography:

Geoffrey Gilbert is professor of economics at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, focusing on population and poverty. His published works include ABC-CLIO's World Poverty: A Reference Handbook.

Release date Australia

July 1st, 2006

Author

Geoffrey Gilbert

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Edition

2nd Revised edition

Pages

298

Series

Contemporary World Issues

Dimensions

152x229x27

ISBN-13

9781851099276

Product ID

3613324

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