People and their Planet : Searching for Balance (Hardcover)

List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Contributors Foreword; N.Sadik Overview: The Population-Environment Equation: Implications for Future Security; B.S.Baudot Introduction Dimensions of the Population-Environment Equation; B.S.Baudot PART I: FACTORS IN THE EQUATION Population and Environment Relationships in Developing Countries: Recent Approaches and Methods; C.M.Marquette and R.E.Bilsborrow Population, Environment, and Sustainable Development: Global Issues; J.N.Jordan Population, Affluence, or Technology? An Empirical Look at National Carbon; W.R.Moomaw and D.M.Tullis Colonist Land-Allocation Decisions, Land Use, and Deforestation in the Ecuadorian; A.Frontier and F.J.Pich opulation-Environment Dynamics in Lahat: A Case Study of Deforestation in a Regency of South Sumatra Province, Indonesia; L.Heydir Water, Food, and Population; S.L.Postel Population as a Scale Factor: Impacts on Environment and Development; R.Engelman PART II: THE EQUATION OUT-OF-BALANCE Population Dynamics Revisited: Lessons for Foreign Aid and US Immigration Policy; V.D.Abernethy Population and Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century: India's Megacities; S.F.Krishna-Hensel Mexico City: Current Demographic and Environmental Trends; H.Izazola and C.M.Marquette The Environmental Impacts of Refugee Settlement: A Case Study of an Agricultural Camp in Zambia; V.Lassailly-Jacob The Struggle Over Transboundary Fresh Water Resources: Social and Economic Conflict in the Appropriation and Use of Water Along the US-Mexico Border; R.A.S hez PART III: SEARCHING FOR EQUILIBRIUM Factors Leading to Population Growth in Bangladesh and their Impacts on the Environment; N.Firdaus Two Threats to Global Security; A.de Sherbinin Population, Land Use, and the Environment in a West African Savanna Ecosystem: An Approach to Sustainable Land Use on Community Lands in Northern Ghana; G.T.Agyepong, E.A.Gyasi and J.S.Nabila, with S.K.Kufogbe 'Stay Together/Learn the Flowers/Go Light': Education in a Time of Environmental Crisis; J.Elder Ecological Security: Micro-Threats to Human Wellbeing; D.Pirages Index