People and their planet : searching for balance / edited by Barbara Sundberg Baudot and William R. Moomaw ; foreword by Nafis Sadik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baudot, Barbara Sundberg.

Moomaw, William, 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population--Environmental aspects.

Population.

Environmental policy.

Population geography.

Human geography.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Summary:

These essays focus on the relations between people and the planet's life supporting resources, the symptoms of imbalance in this relationship, and on ways to establish a sustainable equilibrium. Bringing together not only scientific insight but also politics, economics, poetry, culture and the human spirit, the book is invaluable for understanding the geographical variations of environmental impact by human populations.

Contents:

Overview: The Population-Environment Equation: Implications for Future Security / Barbara Sundberg Baudot xix

1 Introduction: Dimensions of the Population-Environment Equation / Barbara Sundberg Baudot 1

Part I Factors in the Equation

2 Population and Environment Relationships in Developing Countries: Recent Approaches and Methods / Catherine M. Marquette, Richard E. Bilsborrow 29

3 Population, Environment and Sustainable Development: Global Issues / Jeffrey N. Jordan 45

4 Population, Affluence or Technology? An Empirical Look at National Carbon Dioxide Production / William R. Moomaw, D. Mark Tullis 58

5 A Multivariate Analysis of Farm Household Land-Use and Forest-Clearing Decisions in the Amazon Region of Ecuador / Francisco J. Pichon 71

6 Population-Environment Dynamics in Lahat: A Case-Study of Deforestation in a Regency of South Sumatra Province, Indonesia / Laurel Heydir 91

7 Water, Food and Population / Sandra L. Postel 108

8 Population as a Scale Factor: Impacts on Environment and Development / Robert Engelman 126

Part II The Equation Out-of-Balance

9 Population Dynamics Revisited: Lessons for Foreign Aid and US Immigration Policy / Virginia Deane Abernethy 143

10 Population and Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century: India's Megacities / Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel 157

11 Mexico City: Current Demographic and Environmental Trends / Haydea Izazola, Catherine M. Marquette 174

12 The Environmental Impacts of Refugee Settlement: A Case Study of an Agricultural Camp in Zambia / Veronique Lassailly-Jacob 187

13 The Struggle over Transboundary Freshwater Resources: Social and Economic Conflict in the Appropriation and Use of Water along the US-Mexico Border / Roberto A. Sanchez-Rodriguez 204

Part III Searching for Balance

14 Factors Leading to Population Growth in Bangladesh and their Impacts on the Environment / Nasim Firdaus 225

15 Two Threats to Global Security / Alex de Sherbinin 232

16 Population, Land-Use and the Environment in a West African Savanna Ecosystem: An Approach to Sustainable Land-Use on Community Lands in Northern Ghana / Gottfried Tenkorang Agyepong, Edwin A. Gyasi, John S. Nabila, Sosthenes K. Kufogbe 251

17 'stay together/learn the flowers/go light': Education in a Time of Environmental Crisis / John Elder 272

18 Ecological Security: Micro-Threats to Human Well-Being / Dennis Pirages 284.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0312217153

OCLC:

39033505