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Title:

Population, economic development, and the environment / edited by Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling and Hans Landberg.

Edition:

1st paperback ed.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

1997, c1994

Description:

xxii, 284 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Population--Economic aspects.
Population--Environmental aspects.
Population policy.
Developing countries--Population.
Developing countries--Economic aspects.--Economic aspects.
Developing countries--Environmental aspects.--Environmental aspects.
Developing countries--Population policy.
Economics--Population--Economics

Other Authors:

Lindahl-Kiessling, Kerstin, 1924-
Landberg, Hans.

Notes:

"Clarendon paperbacks"--cover. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Population, development, and institutional change: summary and analysis / Tommy Bentsson, Christer Gunnarsson -- The environmental resource base and human welfare / Partha Dasgupta, Carl Folke, Karl-Göran Mäler -- Population and reasoned agency: food, fertility, and economic development / Amartya Sen -- An ecologist view of the Malthusian conflict / C.S. Holling -- 'Children are like young bamboo trees': potentiality and reproduction in Sub-Saharan Africa / Caroline Bledsoe -- Economic analysis of fertility: micro-foundations and aggregate implications / Robert J. Willis -- Government, population, and poverty: a 'win-win' tale / Nancy Birdsall -- Institutional analysis of fertility / Geoffrey McNicoll -- The relevance of Malthus for the study of mortality today: long-run influences on health, mortality, labour force participation and population growth / Robert Fogel.

ISBN:

9780198292425 (pbk)
0198292422 (pbk)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)39756980

Locations:

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)