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This monograph makes a contribution to a longstanding debate concerning the transition to capitalism in Europe. The work investigates key aspects of this transformation: the changes on the land, the origins of the industrial revolution, the modern rise of population and the gro…
This book provides a unified mathematical approach, based on diffusion-reaction equations, for the modeling and simulation of spatial and spatiotemporal patterning in ecological and eco-epidemiological systems. It features a special section that introduces relevant numerical tec…
Agricultural resources and their use; Implications of rapid population growth for agricultural policy; Priorities in perspective; Changes in crop production; The development of pest control; Challenges to phytomedicine and pest control; Data sources and data analysis; Estimated …
A study of the methods used to analyse fertility and mortality, this book explores population dynamics and population projections and examines the fundamental principles behind most demographic methods.
This report addresses 9 often debated questions centered on the relationships between population growth and economic development. Specifically, it is asked whether slower population growth will: 1) increase the growth rate of per capita income through increasing per capita avail…
This report addresses 9 often debated questions centered on the relationships between population growth and economic development. Specifically, it is asked whether slower population growth will: 1) increase the growth rate of per capita income through increasing per capita avail…
This report addresses 9 often debated questions centered on the relationships between population growth and economic development. Specifically, it is asked whether slower population growth will: 1) increase the growth rate of per capita income through increasing per capita avail…
This book, containing 12 chapters including an introduction which focuses on soil fertility under different land use systems in the tropics. Chapter 2 contains a global literature review on human population growth, soil resources of the tropics, tropical land use and management,…
Contains 18 essays which focus on the need for capacity building at the grassroots level to enable indigenous people to participate in the economic, socio-cultural, political and environmental processes necessary for sustainable development.
Population politics are a major issue in China. Susan Greenhaigh explores the origins and development of the one-child policy from the late 1970s to the present day, showing how sociopolitical life in China has been subject to scientization and statisticalization.
"China's one-child rule is unassailably one of the most controversial social policies of all time. In the first book of its kind, Susan Greenhalgh draws on twenty years of research into China's population politics to explain how the leaders of a nation of one billion decided to …
Limits to growth: the 30-year update
by Randers, Jorgen, Meadows, Dennis, Meadows, Donella
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Presents future overshoot scenarios and makes an even more urgent case for a rapid readjustment of the global economy towards a sustainable path.
