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For at least 650 years, since the time of the Black Plague, the world's population has headed in only one direction: up. But within a few decades the number of people on earth will level off and then will likely decline over an extended period of time. In Fewer, the author explains how and why birthrates and fertility rates are now falling at an alarming rate in countries throughout the world--both modern and less developed. And he explores the major...
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Are populations soaring out of control? Today the Earth's population has surged to nearly 6.5 billion and is increasing by nearly 80 million people each year. Yet the population explosion that began in the mid 1900s is finally slowing down - and it is happening in some of the most unexpected places. Are we running out of water? Over 97% of our planet's water is undrinkable seawater and another 2% is locked up in polar ice caps. Coupled with the fact...
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"Remember the population bomb? Longman, with the New America Foundation, says that in fact human population is likely to decline, not from catastrophe but because people stop having babies. Women would be forced to bear children, he says, workers would be forced to work, and Fundamentalists of every stripe would draw new strength. His solution is not a return to old ways, but to restore the economic rewards of family life so that those who nurture...
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Monograph on world food security and the prospects for future food shortages due to population growth - proposes such measures as birth control, voluntary dietary change in the developed countries, agricultural development to increase food production in the developing countries, etc. Graphs, references and statistical tables.
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"International trade has shaped the modern world, yet until now no single book has been available for both economists and general readers that traces the history of the international economy from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Power and Plenty fills this gap, providing the first full account of world trade and development over the course of the last millennium." "Ronald Findlay and Kevin O'Rourke examine the successive waves of globalization...
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Abstract: In an attempt to trace changes in food production and food consumption since 1950 when the first statistics were available, this book deals with what has happened and makes no attempt to predict. Since 1950, the world food problems consist of a large proportion of the population of Africa, Asia and Latin America, where people are either undernourished, malnourished or both. Hunger has been attributed to both population growth and poverty,...
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For most of human history hunting and gathering was a universal way of life. Richard Borshay Lee spent over three years conducting fieldwork among the !Kung San, an isolated population of 1,000 in northern Botswana. When Lee began his work in 19863, the!Kung San were one of the last of the world's people to live this life. By 1973, when Lee last lived with the group, it appeared that the !Kung were a society on the threshold of a transformation that...
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"A great many books have been written about Harlem, but for social history none has surpassed Gilbert Osofsky's account of how a pleasant, pastoral upper-middle-class suburb of Manhattan turned into an appalling black slum within forty years. Mr. Osofsky sets his chronicle against the background of pre-Harlem black life in New York City and in the context of the radical changes in race relations in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
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"There's an iceerg dead ahead. It's called global aging, an it threatens to bankrupt the great powers. As the populations of the world's leading economies age and shrink, we will face unprecedented political, economic, and moral challenges. But we are woefully unprepared. Now is the time to ring the alarm bell ..."
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Past attempts to answer this question have ranged widelyfrom less than 1 billion to more than 1,000 billion - one sign that there is no single right answer. More than half of the estimates, however, fall within a much narrower range: between 4 billion and 16 billion. In any case, with the world population now at 5.7 billion, and increasing by approximately 90 million per year, we have clearly entered a zone where limits on the human carrying capacity...
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In Which World?, scientist Allen Hammond imaginatively probes the consequences of present social, economic, and environmental trends to construct three possible worlds that could await us in the twenty-first century: Market World, in which economic and human progress is driven by the liberating power of free markets and human initiative; Fortress World, in which unattended social and environmental problems diminish progress, dooming hundreds of millions...
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