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  Population And The Environment: A Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
After covering the history of world population growth, he explains the main schools of thought on population theory (Chapters 3 and 13), which are extremely helpful in clarifying the positions held by various countries and individuals regarding population issues.
With population and pollution increasing dramatically, urgent steps are needed to stop and possible reverse population growth and decrease "throughput," that is, use of energy and natural resources and their associated environmental degradation.
He notes that population growth has slowed in the industrialized countries, but feels that it is unlikely that the developing countries will be able to control theirs, a situation which will lead to huge numbers of people living lives of misery and starvation.
egj.lib.uidaho.edu /egj02/groat01.html   (10573 words)

  
 Population Index - Volume 65 - Number 1
The main developments in each topic are summarized by decade; the first section covers population studies up to the founding of the federal institute in 1973, the second deals with the 1970s, the third with the 1980s, and the last with the time since 1990 and unification.
The author notes that although the populations of different regions are generally following the same trends, they are at very different stages of development, and that there are significant differences in the characteristics of the global population by region.
Discussions of the main principles of demography and population theory not applied to actual data, including such concepts as Malthusianism, the demographic transition, overpopulation, optimum population, and stable and stationary population models as distinct from methodological studies and models using data, which are classified under
popindex.princeton.edu /browse/v65/n1/a.html   (2673 words)

  
 ECO - On Ecological Ethics: An Introduction
Both its individualism and its restriction to humanity can be highly problematic in an ecocentric context, and so too is its common emphasis on "rights" divorced from responsibilities: both to other human beings (in terms of their quality of life) and to the natural world (in terms of its survival tout court).
And as I have noted, advocates of measures to control population - and I mean humane and sensible measures, not forced sterilisations or eugenics - are often accused of misanthropy, while those who make the charge thus implicitly lay claim to compassion (within a strictly human context) for themselves.
If, as Parsons points out, explosive population growth is itself a major threat to individual freedom, then population control is needed to preserve it: "Population planning is not an invasion of liberty but a safeguard of liberty".
eco.gn.apc.org /pubs/ethics_curry.html   (10730 words)

  
 Guelph Organic Conference 2006 - "Living Organic - the next 25 years"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
His research spans the fields of population dynamics, ecological and economic aspects of pest control, biological control, biotechnology, sustainable agriculture, land and water conservation, and environmental policy.
Ecology and population dynamics of aphids and other arthropods associated with soybean and mungbean crops.
The tightening conflict: population, energy use, and the ecology of agriculture.
www.guelphorganicconf.ca /keynote2006.html   (5078 words)

  
 The Sixth Commandment - Mission to Israel
If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.
Cousteau has now done his part to "stabilize world populations" in that he is now deceased.
Alan Gregg, "A Medical Aspect of the Population Problem," Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 13 May 1955,Volume 121, p.
www.missiontoisrael.org /6thcom.php   (13004 words)

  
 Geotimes — August 2005 — Weighing in on Renewable Energy Efficiency
The relative usage of those sources should depend in large part on their individual energy efficiencies and costs.
At the same time, however, the U.S. population needs to take an example from the Europeans and reduce their energy consumption through conservation and smart energy usage.
There is no simple solution, but there are lots of great places to start.
www.geotimes.org /aug05/feature_pimental.html   (2732 words)

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