Population, economic development, and the environment
By: edited by Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling and Hans Landberg.
Contributors: Lindahl-Kiessling, Kerstin, 1924-; Landberg, Hans.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Population -- Economic aspects.; Population -- Environmental aspects.; Population policy.; Developing countries -- Population.; Developing countries -- Population -- Economic aspects.; Developing countries -- Population -- Environmental aspects.; Developing countries -- Population policy.
Description: Global population increase and production and consumption patterns and levels make the crucial issues first raised by Malthus two hundred years ago more important than ever. The position taken in this book is that the issues of population and its growth or decline cannot be separated from the whole set of questions of economic and social development, and from the environmental concerns related to the production and consumption of peoples throughout the whole of the world.

Analysis must thus be made at the global, as well as at regional levels.

In this book, seven distinguished scholars from different fields take up three main themes: the Malthusian conflict, factors underlying fertility changes, and development issues related to the population-environment nexus. They explore in depth the connections between population size and growth, environmental degradation, and poverty, taking into account the effects of increasing competition for natural resources on social structures.

The household unit itself also comes under scrutiny, with the examination of issues such as inequality between the genders, and between children, young adults, and the old. The rapidly increasing stress on the world's natural resource base can, especially in the overpopulated areas of the world, create social tension and conflicts between or within nations long before major ecological breakdown occurs. The issues raised in this book should therefore be placed firmly on the international agenda.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Population, development, and institutional change: summary and analysis / Tommy Bentsson, Christer Gunnarsson; title: The environmental resource base and human welfare / Partha Dasgupta, Carl Folke, Karl-Göran Mäler; title: Population and reasoned agency: food, fertility, and economic development / Amartya Sen; title: An ecologist view of the Malthusian conflict / C.S. Holling; title: 'Children are like young bamboo trees': potentiality and reproduction in Sub-Saharan Africa / Caroline Bledsoe; title: Economic analysis of fertility: micro-foundations and aggregate implications / Robert J. Willis; title: Government, population, and poverty: a 'win-win' tale / Nancy Birdsall; title: Institutional analysis of fertility / Geoffrey McNicoll; title: The relevance of Malthus for the study of mortality today: long-run influences on health, mortality, labour force participation and population growth / Robert Fogel.