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World population : past, present, & future / Julio A Gonzalo, Manuel Alfonseca, Félix-Fernando Muñoz (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gonzalo, Julio A. (Julio Antonio), author.
- Alfonseca, Manuel, author.
- Muñoz, Félix-Fernando, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Population.
- Population forecasting.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 164 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Jersey : World Scientific, [2016]
- Contents:
- Introductory considerations
- The earth as a privileged planet
- Mathematical descriptions of population trends
- World population growth: 1900-2010: the UN data
- World economic expansion: 1945-1990
- Energy, population and the environment
- Abortion and population control
- Government family planning now and in the future
- The rhetoric of population control : does the end justify the means?
- Using a rate equations approach to model world population trends
- Prospects of world population slow down
- Falling birth rates and world population projections : a quantitative discussion (1950-2050)
- Quantitative estimates of the future world population decline
- Malthus's mistake.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9789813140998
- 9813140992
- OCLC:
- 941714606
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