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People and their Planet

Searching for Balance

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Barbara Sundberg Baudot

    1. Saint Anselm College, Manchester, USA
      Global Development and Environment Institute, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, USA

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  2. William R. Moomaw

    1. Global Development and Environment Institute, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, USA

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Introduction: Dimensions of the Population-Environment Equation

    1. Introduction: Dimensions of the Population-Environment Equation

      • Barbara Sundberg Baudot
      Pages 1-25

  3. Factors in the Equation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Population and Environment Relationships in Developing Countries: Recent Approaches and Methods

      • Catherine M. Marquette, Richard E. Bilsborrow
      Pages 29-44

    3. Population, Environment and Sustainable Development: Global Issues

      • Jeffrey N. Jordan
      Pages 45-57

    4. Population, Affluence or Technology? An Empirical Look at National Carbon Dioxide Production

      • William R. Moomaw, D. Mark Tullis
      Pages 58-70

    5. A Multivariate Analysis of Farm Household Land-Use and Forest-Clearing Decisions in the Amazon Region of Ecuador

      • Francisco J. Pichón
      Pages 71-90

    6. Population-Environment Dynamics in Lahat: A Case-Study of Deforestation in a Regency of South Sumatra Province, Indonesia

      • Laurel Heydir
      Pages 91-107

    7. Water, Food and Population

      • Sandra L. Postel
      Pages 108-125

    8. Population as a Scale Factor: Impacts on Environment and Development

      • Robert Engelman
      Pages 126-140

  5. Searching for Balance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223
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    2. Factors Leading to Population Growth in Bangladesh and their Impacts on the Environment

      • Nasim Firdaus
      Pages 225-231

    3. Two Threats to Global Security

      • Alex de Sherbinin
      Pages 232-250

    4. Population, Land-Use and the Environment in a West African Savanna Ecosystem: An Approach to Sustainable Land-Use on Community Lands in Northern Ghana

      • Gottfried Tenkorang Agyepong, Edwin A. Gyasi, John S. Nabila, Sosthenes K. Kufogbe
      Pages 251-271
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About this book

This book brings together research on the relations between people and the planet's living and non-living resources. Its three main foci include the methodological approaches to the study of relationships between people and land use, patterns of consumption, population trends and the availability of food and water resources; an examination of evidence of disequilibria in increasing conflicts, migrations, and over-crowding; and a search for balance between people and the other elements of the biosphere through understanding and overcoming destructive forces.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Saint Anselm College, Manchester, USA

    Barbara Sundberg Baudot

  • Global Development and Environment Institute, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, USA

    Barbara Sundberg Baudot, William R. Moomaw

About the editors

VIRGINIA DEANE ABERNETHY Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN G.T. AGYEPONG Director, Remote Sensing Applications Unit, Department of Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra, RICHARD E. BILSBORROW The Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC JOHN ELDER Professor, Program in Environmental Studies, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT ROBERT ENGELMAN Director, Population and Environment Program, Population Acton International, Washington, D.C. NASIM FIRDAUS Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dhaka, Bangladesh LAUREL HEYDIR The School of Law and Population Research Center, Sriwijaya University, Palembang, Indonesia HAYDEA IZAZOLA Consultant-Demographer, Colina del Sur, Mexico D.F. JEFFREY N. JORDAN Senior Scientist, The Futures Group International, Washington, D.C. SAI FELICIA KRISHNA-HENSEL Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Global Studies, Auburn University, Montgomery, AL VÉRONIQUE LASSAILLY-JACOB Geographer, Centre for African Studies, French National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris CATHERINE M. MARQUETTE Consultant, Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway FRANCISCO PICHON Center for Development Studies, University of Bergen, Norway DENNIS PIAGES Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD SANDRA L. POSTEL Global Water Policy Project, Amherst, MA ROBERTO SANCHEZ Program Manger for Transboundary Issues, Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Montreal, Canada ALEX DE SHERBININ Population-Environment Fellow at IUCN-The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland MARK TULLIS Folio, Inc., Provo, UT.

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