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The No-nonsense Guide to World Population / Vanessa Baird.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baird, Vanessa.
- Series:
- No-Nonsense Guides
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Population.
- Population policy.
- Population forecasting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (139 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : New Internationalist Publications Inc., 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Are we heading for a population 'explosion'? How many people can the planet sustain?.
- Contents:
- ""Book title""; ""Foreword""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Are too many people being born?""; ""2. A brief history of population""; ""3. Being alive, staying alive-and growing old""; ""4. A woman's body""; ""5. For richer, for poorer""; ""6. On the move""; ""7. Population and climate change""; ""8. How can we feed nine billion?""; ""9. Wild things""; ""10. Conclusion""; ""Resources""; ""Index""; ""Back cover""; ""Spine""
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-78026-034-2
- OCLC:
- 923311125
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