People and Their Planet
Subtitle: Searching for Balance
Contributors: Barbara Sundberg Baudot (Editor); William R. Moomaw (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780312217150
Subjects: Political Science; Environmental Studies; Nature/Ecology; Development - Sustainable Development; Environmental Science; Science / General; Cosmology; Public Affairs & Administration; Environmental Policy; Environmental aspects; Human Geography; Population; Population Geography
Description: Ensuring that population, environment and poverty factors are integrated into sustainable development policies challenges researchers and scholars to develop a reliable measure of their interlinkages, given the many inextricable relations between demographic trends, production, consumption and other human activities.

This book takes a holistic approach to achieving that balance. The environmental impact of human populations vary geographically depending upon the fragility of the resource base, population densities and prevailing societal ethos. Understanding these variables is advanced by case-studies and data bases on environmental trends and human behaviours.