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Title:

Elephants in the Volkswagen : facing the tough questions about our overcrowded country / [edited by] Lindsey Grant.

Publisher:

W.H. Freeman,

Copyright Date:

c1992

Description:

xii, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Population--Economic aspects.
Population--Environmental aspects.
United States--Population.

Other Authors:

Grant, Lindsey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-264) and index.

Contents:

Reconciling Texas and Berkeley: the concept of optimum population -- Land, energy, and water: the constraints governing ideal U.S. Population size / David and Marcia Pimentel -- Energy and population: transitional issues and eventual limits / Paul J. Werbos -- Balancing humans in the biosphere / Robert Costanzs -- Manning the American military in the twenty-first century: demographics and national security / Martin Binkin -- Political confrontation with economic reality: mass immigration in the postindustrial age / Vernon M. Briggs, Jr. -- Optimal city size and population density for the twenty-first century / Alden Speare, Jr., Michael J. White -- The plight of the Chesapeake / Stephen E. Tennenbaum and Robert Costanza -- You can't go West: stress in the high country / Dennis Brownridge -- The most overpopulated nation / Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich -- The cornucopian fallacies -- Too many old People? -- How to get there from here: the demographic route to optimal population size / Leon F. Bouvier -- Sustainable immigration: learning to say no / David E. Simcox - - How to influence fertility: the experience so far / John R. Weeks -- Escaping the overpopulation trap / Robert Costanza -- Europe in the energy transition: the case for a smaller population -- Neighbors' problems, our problems: population growth in Central America / Robert W. Fox.

ISBN:

9780716722687 (pbk.) :
0716722682 (pbk.) :
9780716722670
0716722674

OCLC:

(OCoLC)24630553

LCCN:

91037321

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