An Overcrowded World? Population, Resources and the Environment

by Sarre, Philip; Blunden, John

• ISBN13: 9780198741886
• ISBN10: 019874188X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-08-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book explores the issues of overpopulation and the resulting depletion of natural resources. The main focus is on the impact that developments in one part of the world have upon people's lifestyles, and the forms of inequality dictated by the relationship between rich and poor countries.The study of wilderness and the notion of empty space are used to introduce questions of national resources, sustainability, and ecology. Sustainability provides the framework for discussion of population change, mortality and fertility and the questions of energy resources and environmentaldegradation. An Overcrowded World demonstrates how uneven development worsens ecological problems in certain areas and prevents a unified global response.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Paradise lost, or the conquest of the wilderness

Population and environmental change: the case of Africa

Stabilizing population growth: the European experience

Sustainable resources?

Trade globally, pollute locally

Uneven development and sustainability

Acknowledgements

Index

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