Full Description
This ambitious interdisciplinary volume places population processes in their social, political, and economic contexts while it considers their environmental impacts. Examining the multi-faceted patterns of human relationships that overlay, alter, and distort our ties to urban and rural landscapes, the book focuses especially on the essential experi
Contents
Preface -- Rethinking the Population-Environment Debate -- Population and Environment: Overviews and Methodologies -- The Social Dimensions of Population -- World Population Trends: Global and Regional Interactions Between Population and Environment -- Women, Poverty and Population: Issues for the Concerned Environmentalist -- The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India -- The Relation Between Population and Deforestation: Methods for Drawing Causal Inferences from Macro and Micro Studies -- Population and Environment: Reviews and Case Studies -- Population Change and Agricultural Intensification in Developing Countries -- The Social Context of Land Degradation ("Desertification") in Dry Regions -- The Socioeconomic Matrix of Deforestation -- Problems of Population and Environment in Extractive Economies -- Urbanization and the Environment in Developing Countries: Latin America in Comparative Perspective -- Population and Environment: Conclusions -- Conclusions: Rethinking the Population-Environment Debate
