Building the population bomb / Emily Klancher Merchant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Merchant, Emily Klancher, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

'Building the Population Bomb' carefully examines how the rise of the world's human population came to be understood as problematic by scientists and governments across the globe. It challenges our assumption of population growth as inherently problematic by demonstrating how it is our anxieties over population growth-and not population growth itself-that have detracted from the pursuit of economic, environmental, and reproductive justice.

Contents:

List of figures

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations used in Notes

Introduction

Quantity and quality

Family planning

Global population

Population consensus

Demography as diplomacy

Detonating the Population Bomb

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Merchant, Emily Klancher Building the Population Bomb

ISBN:

0-19-755896-8

0-19-755897-6

0-19-755895-X

OCLC:

1252424895