Consumption, population, and sustainability
Subtitle: perspectives from science and religion
By: edited by Audrey R. Chapman, Rodney L. Petersen, Barbara Smith-Moran.
Contributors: Chapman, Audrey R.; Petersen, Rodney Lawrence.; Smith-Moran, Barbara.
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: Consumption (Economics) -- Religious aspects; Consumption (Economics) -- Moral and ethical aspects; Population policy -- Religious aspects; Population policy -- Moral and ethical aspects; Sustainable development -- Moral and ethical aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Science, religion, and the environment / Audrey R. Chapman; title: Perspectives on sustainability / Ian G. Barbour; title: Overview of scientific perspectives / Audrey R. Chapman; title: World population projections to 2150 / U.N. Population Division; title: Population growth and earth's human carrying capacity / Joel E. Cohen; title: Revisiting carrying capacity: area-based indicators of sustainability / William E. Rees; title: U.S. consumption and the environment / Michael Brower and Warren Leon; title: Overview of religious perspectives / Audrey R. Chapman; title: World religions and the 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development / United Nations; title: A Catholic perspective / David M. Byers; title: Foundations for a Jewish ethic regarding consumption / Michael Fox Smart; title: A Greek Orthodox perspective / Emmanuel Clapsis; title: An Islamic perspective / Abdul Cader Asmal and Mohammed Asmal; title: Toward the revival and reform of the subversive virtue: frugality / James A. Nash; title: Overview of perspectives on ethics and public policy / Audrey R. Chapman; title: Report of the 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development / United Nations; title: Consumption and well-being / David A. Crocker; title: Population, consumption, and eco-justice: a moral assessment of the 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development / James B. Martin-Schramm; title: The transition to a transition / Neva R. Goodwin; title: Christian responses to coercion in population regulation / Susan Power Bratton; title: To protect the whole of creation / Bruce Babbitt; title: Earth literacy for theology / Mary Evelyn Tucker; title: Envisioning equity in consumption, population, and sustainability / Rodney L. Petersen.