| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 289 pages) : map |
| Contents |
The Coming Population Crash -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: Malthusian Nightmares -- Chapter 1: A Dark and Terrible Genius -- Chapter 2: The Road to Skibbereen -- Chapter 3: Saving the White Man -- Part Two: Rise of the Population Controller -- Chapter 4: An Ornithologist Speaks -- Chapter 5: The Contraceptive Cavalry -- Chapter 6: Three Wise Men -- Chapter 7: Six Dollars a Snip -- Chapter 8: Green Revolution -- Chapter 9: One Child -- Part Three: Implosion -- Chapter 10: Small Towns in Germany -- Chapter 11: Winter in Europe |
|
Chapter 12: Russian RoulettePart Four: The Reproductive Revolution -- Chapter 13: Sisters -- Chapter 14: Sex and the City -- Chapter 15: Singapore Sling -- Chapter 16: Missing Girls -- Chapter 17: Where Men Still Rule -- Part Five: Migrants -- Chapter 18: Waving or Drowning? -- Chapter 19: Migrant Myths -- Chapter 20: Footloose in Asia -- Chapter 21: God�s Crucible -- Part Six: Reaching The Limits -- Chapter 22: The Tigers and the Bulge -- Chapter 23: Footprints on a Finite Planet -- Chapter 24: Feeding the World -- Chapter 25: Slumdogs Arise |
|
Part Seven: Older, Wiser, GreenerChapter 26: The Age of the Old -- Chapter 27: Silver Lining -- Chapter 28: Peak Population and Beyond -- Notes on Sources -- Index |
| Summary |
Pearce chronicles nearly 200 years of demographic issues, beginning with efforts to contain the demographic explosion, from the early environmental movement's racism and involvement in eugenics to coercive family-planning policies in China and India |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Population -- Social aspects
|
|
Population forecasting.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography.
|
|
Population forecasting
|
|
Population -- Social aspects
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| LC no. |
2009038652 |
| ISBN |
9780807097700 |
|
0807097705 |
|
0807085839 |
|
9780807085837 |
|
