Description |
220 pages ; 26 cm |
Contents |
The emergence of the popluation problem / Philip Hauser -- Population: The first essay / Thomas Malthus -- World population: A battle lost? / Paul Ehrlich -- World population: Hope ahead / Dudley Kirk -- World population / Colin Clark -- Can the world be saved? / LaMont Cole -- The meaning of the population/environment crisis in the United States: A sociologist's view / Larry D. Barnett -- Some principles of animal population dynamics / Kenneth D. Carlander -- Biological limits on population growth /Clement L. Markeert -- War and disease: An anthropological perspective / Alexander Alland, Jr. -- Population control in primitive groups / Mary Douglas -- Population, resources, and the great complexity / Durward L. Allen -- A corollary to the simal theorem / Conrad Istock -- Ecology and man: A viewpoint / Paul Shepard -- An ecological ethic / Ian G. Barbour -- Dimensions of the world food cirsis / H.F. Robinson -- The many-faceted food problem / Tadd Fisher -- The hope of conquering hunger / Time -- How green is the gree revolution? / William C. Paddock -- Population and panaceas: A technological perspective / Paul R. Ehrlich and John P. Holdren -- Population density and the sytle of social life / Nathan Keyfitz -- Population pollution / Francis S.L. Williamson -- Adaptive strategy for air pollution / Frederick Sargent II -- Mental health and overpopulation / Judd Marmor -- People, recreation, wild lands, and wilderness / Homer Aschmann -- The U.S. Environment: A time to decide / Raymond F. Dasmann -- Population policy for Americas: Is the government being misled? / Judith Blake -- Family planning and public policy: Who is misleading Whom? / Oscar Harkavy, Frederick S. Jaffe, Samuel M. Wishik -- Parenthood: Its new responsibilities / Alice Taylor Day -- Beyond family planning / Bernard Berelson -- The tragedy of the commons / Garrett Hardin -- Low U.S. Birth rate not entirely desirable / Ansley J. Coale -- What role for the humanist in these troubled times / R.L. Predmore |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 209-211 |
Subject |
Birth control.
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Food supply.
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Population.
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Population Growth.
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Author |
Lyon, David L.
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Reid, Sue Titus.
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LC no. |
79164003 |
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