Population Politics: The Choices That Shape Our Future

ISBN-13: 9781138530508 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 396 str.

Virginia Abernethy; Garrett Hardin

Opis

Why, after several decades of helping poor countries improve their standard of living, is poverty still the rule? This is a provocative examination of international efforts to regulate fertility rates, and of the influence of aid and liberal policies on world population growth.

Spis treści

I: Framing the Issues; 1: Growth; 2: A Global Dilemma; II: Why Growth Flies out of Control; 3: Belief as Part of the Problem; 4: Cultural Brakes; 5: Where to Look for Balance; 6: Which Incentives?; 7: Development Alone May Spur Population Growth; 8: Culture: Make or Break; III: The Big Picture; 9: One-World; 10: Potlatching Twentieth-Century Style; 11: Helping While Not Harming; 12: Conservation, Incentives, and Ethics; 13: Limiting Factors; IV: America; 14: Kissing the Blarney Stone and Other Tales; 15: History Does Not Stop; 16: The Path to Poverty; 17: All Our People; 18: The Carrying Capacity of the United States; 19: And Away We Go; 20: Let Freedom Ring; 21: Taking Hold

O autorze

Virginia Abernethy, Garrett Hardin