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Author:

Symposium on Population Pressures upon Physical and Social Resources in the Developing Lands, Pennsylvania State University, 1967.

Title:

Geography and a crowding world. Edited by Wilbur Zelinsky, Leszek A. Kosiński [and] R. Mansell Prothero.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

1970

Description:

xv, 601 p. maps. 25 cm.

Subject:

Developing countries--Population--Congresses.
Population Conference proceedings.--Population Conference proceedings.
Developing countries--Population--Congresses.
Pays en voie de développement--Population--Congrès.

Other Authors:

Zelinsky, Wilbur, 1921- ed.
Kosiński, Leszek A., ed.
Prothero, R. Mansell, ed.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies.

Contents:

Reflections on the symposium : geography and population growth / Pierre George. World population and resources : the larger historical context of the problem / V.V. Pokshishevskii -- Population dynamics and population pressures : geographic-demographic approaches / Irene B. Taeuber -- Some sociological considerations of population pressure on resources / Harley L. Browning -- Increasing agricultural output to help with the population "problem" / Peter F.M. McLoughlin -- The adjustment of rural population to diminishing land resources / John Fraser Hart -- Present and potential food production in developing countries / Ester Boserup -- A typology of population pressure on resources in West Africa / Akin L. Mabogunje -- Population, society, and the allocation of resources / H.C. Brookfield -- Physical environment and population pressure / J. Tricart -- What ever happened to Krilium? / William Vogt -- The concept of environmental potential as exemplified by tropical African research / Philip W. Porter -- Landscape evolution : a tool for analyzing population-resource relationships : northeast Brazil as a test area / Kempton E. Webb -- Demographic pressure and mountain life, with special reference to the Alpine-Himalayan belt / Xavier de Planhol -- Migrations and population pressures on resources / L.A. Kosiński and R.M. Prothero -- Migration as a response to population pressure : the case of the Philippines / Paul D. Simkins -- Large overpopulated cities in the underdeveloped world / Jacqueline Beaujeu-Garnier -- Some dimensions of urban population pressure in India / John E. Bush -- An overcrowded metropolis : Kingston, Jamaica / C.G. Clarke -- Population growth and economic development in Egypt / M. Rościszewski -- Population distribution and dynamics in Cameroon / John I. Clarke -- Population pressure on physical and social resources in Zambia / George Kay -- Population densities and rural economies in the Kano Close-Settled Zone, Nigeria / M.J. Mortimore -- Population, natural resources and economic development in India / V. Nath -- Population and resource development in India / P. Sen Gupta -- Demographic dynamism in Punjab and increasing pressure on its resources / Gurdev Singh Gosal -- Population change and agricultural productivity in East Pakistan, 1951-1961 / Warren C. Robinson -- Population pressure in Japan / Shinzo Kiuchi -- Samoa : two approaches to population and resource problems / Peter N.D. Pirie -- The race between population and resource development in Central America and the West Indies : a review of current knowledge and speculation / Wilbur Zelinsky -- Population pressure upon resources in Costa Rica / Gerhard Sandner -- Population pressure in the state of São Paulo, Brazil / Andrzej Bonasewicz -- Reflections on the symposium : geography and population growth / Pierre George.

ISBN:

9780195011128
0195011120

LCCN:

77082999

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)