Population and environment
Subtitle: rethinking the debate
By: edited by Lourdes Arizpe, M. Priscilla Stone, and David C. Major
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781000235791; 9780429302602; 9781000307672; 9781000271737; 9780367283858
Subjects: Population; Economic aspects; Social aspects; Environmental aspects; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Demography; General; Sociology
Other titles: Population & environment
Description: This ambitious interdisciplinary volume places population processes in their social, political, and economic contexts while it considers their environmental impacts. Examining the multi-faceted patterns of human relationships that overlay, alter, and distort our ties to urban and rural landscapes, the book focuses especially on the essential experi
Notes: Originally published 1994 by Westview Press

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Lourdes Arizpe is director of the Institute of Anthropological Research, Universidad Nacional Autâonoma de Mâexico and a vice-president of the International Social Science Council. She has authored numerous books and articles on women, development, and migration issues. Her most recent book is La mujer en el desarrollo de Mâexico y de Amâerica Latina. M. Priscilla Stone is program director for the Africa Program at the Social Science Research Council. She is an anthropologist whose research focuses on agricultural intensification and gender dynamics in West African farming systems. David C. Major, an economist and natural resources planner, is program director for the Program on Global Environmental Change at the Social Science Research Council. His most recent book is Large-Scale Regional Water Resources Planning (with Harry E. Schwarz).
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Rethinking the Population-Environment Debate; PART ONE Population and Environment: Overviews and Methodologies; Introduction to Part One; 1 The Social Dimensions of Population; 2 World Population Trends: Global and Regional Interactions Between Population and Enviromnent; 3 Women, Poverty and Population: Issues for the Concerned Enviromnentalist; 4 The Gender and Enviromnent Debate: Lessons from India; 5 The Relation Between Population and Deforestation: Methods for Drawing Causal Inferences from Macro and Micro Studies; title: PART TWO Population and Environment: Reviews and Case StudiesIntroduction to Part Two; 6 Population Change and Agricultural Intensification in Developing Countries; 7 The Social Context of Land Degradation (""Desertification"") in Dry Regions; 8 The Socioeconomic Matrix of Deforestation; 9 Problems of Population and Environment in Extractive Economies; 10 Urbanization and the Environment in Developing Countries: Latin America in Comparative Perspective; PART THREE Population and Environmeot: Conclusions; 11 Conclusions: Rethinking the Population-Environment Debate