Population, Economic Development, and the Environment

Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-19-829242-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 437 g

Contributors: Partha Dasgupta, C. S. Holling, Robert Fogel, Geoffrey McNicoll, Caroline Bledsoe, Robert Willis, Amartya Sen, Nancy Birdsall

Global population increase and production and consumption patterns and levels make the crucial issues first raised by Malthus two hundred years ago more important than ever. The debate today is characterized by the position taken up by this book, that the issues of population and its growth or decline cannot be separated from the whole set of questions of economic and social development, and from the environmental concerns related to the production and consumption of peoples throughout the whole of the world. Analysis must thus be made at the global, as well as at the regional, level.

In this book seven distinguished scholars from different fields take up three main themes: the Malthusian conflict, factors underlying fertility changes, and development strategic issues related to the population-environment nexus. They explore in depth the connections between population size and growth, environmental degradation, and poverty, taking into account the effects of increasing competition for natural resources on social structures. The household unit itself also comes under scrutiny, with the examination of issues such as inequality between the genders, and between children, young adults, and the old.

The rapidly increasing stress on the world's natural-resource base can, especially in the overpopulated areas of the world, create social tension and conflicts between or within nations long before major ecological breakdown occurs. The issues raised in this book should therefore be placed firmly in the international agenda.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lindahl-Kiessling, Kerstin

Landberg, Hans

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltverschmutzung, Umweltkriminalität, Umweltrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftsstatistik, Demographie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltüberwachung, Umweltanalytik, Umweltinformatik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Bengtsson and Gunnarsson: Population, Development and Institutional Change: Summary and Analysis

- 2: Dasgupta, Foke, and Maler: The Environmental Resource Base and Human Welfare

- 3: Amartya Sen: Population and Reasoned Agency: Food Fertility and Economic Development

- 4: Holling: An Ecolotist View of the Malthusian Conflice

- 5: Bledsoe: `Children are like young bamboo trees': Potentiality and Reproduction in Sub-Saharan Africa

- 6: Willis: Economic Analysis of Fertility: Micro Founcations and Aggregate Implications

- 7: Birdsall: Government, Population and Poverty

- 8: McNicoll: Institutional Analysis of Fertility

- 9: Fogel: The Relevance of Malthus for the Study of Mortality Today