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Francis Graham-Smith,0(editor), Population - The Complex Reality, North American Press, Golden Colorado, 1994.
Lourdes Arizpe, M. Priscilla and David C. Major, (editors) Population and Environment: Rethinking the Debate, Westview Press, Boulder Colorado, 1994.
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Expert Meeting on Population, Environment and Sustainable Development, Asian Population Studies series, No. 126, Bangkok, Thailand, 1994.
United Nations, Population, Environment and Development: Report of an Expert Group Meeting on Population, Environment and Development, 20-24 January 1992, United Nations, New York, 1994.
Laurie Mazur, (editor), Beyond the Numbers: A Reader on Population, Consumption and Environment, Island Press, Washington, D.C., 1994.
Basia Zaba and John Clarke (editors), Environment and Population Change, Liege, Derouaux Ordina Editions, 1994.
Carole L. Jolly and Barbara B. Torrey, (editors), Population and Land Use in Developing Countries, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1993.
Gayl D. Ness, William D. Drake and Steven R. Brechin, (editors) Population- Environment Dynamics: Ideas and Observations, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1993.
Royal Society of London and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Population Growth, Resource Consumption and A Sustainable World, (London and Washington, D.C.) 1992.
Robert Goodland, Heman E. Daly, Salah El Serafy, (editors) Population, Technology and Lifestyle: the Transition to Sustainability, Island Press, Washington, D.C., 1992.
Kingsley Davis and Mikhail S. Bernstam (editors), Resources, Environment and Population: Present Knowledge, Future Options, New York, Oxford University Press, 1991.
Kingsley Davis, Mikhail S. Bernstam and Helen Sellers, (editors), Population and Resources in A Changing World: Current Readings, Palo Alto, Stanford University, 1989.
Michael S. Teitelbaum and Jay M. Winter (editors), Population and Resources in Western Intellectual Traditions, New York, Oxford University Press, 1988.
Richard Bilsborrow, Population and the Environment in Developing Countries: Literature Survey and Research Bibliography, United Nations, Population Division Working Paper, ESA/P/WP.123, 16 February 1994.
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Population, Environment and Sustainable Development, Asian Population Studies Series, No. 124, November 1993, Bangkok, Thailand.
Garett Hardin, Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics and Population Taboos, Oxford University Press, New York, New York, 1993.
Alan S. Parkes and Dennis Frances, Backlash: A Biologist Looks at Problems of Population and the Environment, Parkes Foundation, Cambridge, Englaned, 1993.
Paul Harrison, The Third Revolution: Environment, Population and a Sustainable World, Penguin Books London, 1992.
Cynthia P. Green, The Environment and Population Growth: Decade for Action, Population Reports Series M: Special Topics, No. 10, Johns Hopkins University, Population Information Program, Baltimore, Maryland, May 1992.
Donella Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows and Jorgen Randers, Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future, Chelsea Green, Post Mills Vermont, 1992.
United Nations Population Fund, Population, Resources and the Environment: The Critical Challenges, New York, United Nations Population Fund, 1991.
The United Nations Population Fund, Population and the Environment: the Challenges Ahead, New York, The United Nations Population Fund, 1991.
Paul Ehrlich and Anne Ehrlich, The Population Explosion, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1990.
Julian Simon, Population Matters: People, Resources, Environment and Immigration, New Brunswick,, N.J., Transaction Publishers, 1990.
Robert Repetto, Population, Resources, Environment: An Uncertain Future, Washington, D.C. Population Reference Bureau, Population Bulletin, Vol. 42, No. 2, July, 1987.
Walter Mertens, Population and Deforestation in the Humid Tropics, IUSSP Policy Research Paper, No. 2, IUSSP, Liege, Belgium, 1994.
Robert Engleman, Stabilizing the Atmosphere: Population, Consumption and Greenhouse Gases, Population Action International, Washington, D.C., 1994.
Mary Tiffen, Michael Mortimore and Fancis Gichuki, More People, Less Erosion: Environmental Recovery in Kenya, New York, John Wiley, 1994.
Robert Engleman, and Pamela Le Roy, Sustaining Water: Population and the Future of Renewable Water Supplies, Population Action International, Washington, D.C., 1993.
Stephen D. Mink, Poverty, Population and the Environment, World Bank Discussion Paper, No. 189, World Bank, Washington, D.C., 1993.
Malin Falkenmark and Carl Wistrand, Population and Water Resources: A Delicate Balance, Population Bulletin, Vol. 47, No. 3, November 1992.
Robert Repetto, The "Second India" Revisited: Population, Poverty, and Environmental Stress over Two Decades, World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C., August 1994.
Geping Qu and Jinchang Li, Population Growth and Environment in China, Lynne Reinner, Boulder, Colorado,1994.
Krishna B. Ghimire, Linkages between Population, Environment and Development. Case Studies from Costa Rica, Pakistan and Uganda, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva, Switzerland, November 1993.
Kevin M. Cleaver and Gotz A. Schreiber, The Population, Agriculture and Environment Nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa, Agriculture and Rural Development Series, No. 9, Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 1993.
Maria C. Cruz, Carrie A. Meyer, Robert Repetto, and R. Woodward, Population Growth and Poverty and Environmental Stress: Frontier Migration in the Philippines and Costa Rica, Washington, D.C., World Resources Institute, 1992.
Development theory, population and the environment
Carole L. Jolly, "Four Theories of Population Change and the Environment", Population and Environment, Vol. 16, No. 1, September 1994, pp. 61-90.
Nathan Keyfitz, "Population and Sustainable Development: Distinguishing Fact and Preference Concerning the Future Human Population and Environment", Population and Environment, Vol. 14, No. 5, May 1993, pp. 441-461.
Nathan Keyfitz, "Population and Development within the Biosphere: One View of the Literature", Population Index, Vol. 57, No. 1, Spring 1991, pp. 5-22.
Classical economics, population and the environment
Partha Dasgupta, "Population, Poverty, and the Local Environment", in Scientific American, February, 1995, pp. 40-45.
Nathan Keyfitz and Kirsten Lindahl-Keissling, "The World Population Debate: Urgency of the Problem", in Graham-Smith, Francis, (editor), Population-The Complex Reality. A Report of the Summit of the World's Scientific Academies, North American Press, Golden Colorado, 1994, pp. 21-51.
Christopher S. Wendel, "Curbing Rapid Population Growth: the Crux of Sustainable Development", Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Vol. 17, No. 1, Winter, 1993, pp. 167-180.
United Nations, "Expert Group Meeting on Population Environment and Development", Population Bulletin of the United Nations, Nos. 34/35, 1993, pp. 19-34.
Norman Myers, "Population, Environment and Development", in Environmental Conservation, Vol. 20, No. 3, Autumn 1993, pp.205-216.
John M. Culbertson, "Economic Growth, Population and the Environment", Population and Environment, Vol. 11, No. 2, Winter 1989, pp. 83-100.
Neoclassical economics, population and the environment
Theodore Panayotou, "The Population Environment, and Development Nexus" in Population and Development: Old Debates, New Conclusions, Robert Cassen (editor), Overseas Development Council, Washington, D.C., 1994, Ch. 5, pp. 149-180.
F. Landis MacKellar and David Horlacher, "Population, Living Standards and Sustainability: An Economic View" in Beyond the Numbers, edited by Laurie Mazur, Island Press, Washington, D.C., 1994, pp. 76-94.
V. A. Borisov, "Bearing Many Children, Morality and Ecology", Problems of Economic Transition, Vol. 35, No. 6, October 1992, pp. 81-91.
Marxist economics, population and the environment
Monowar Hossain, "Interrelationships between Population and Natural Resources: An Analytic Framework" in Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Expert Meeting on Population, Environment and Sustainable Development, Asian population Studies series, No. 126, Bangkok, Thailand, 1994, pp. 1-9.
Monowar Hossain, "Interrelationships between Population, Environment and Development", Asia Population Studies Series, No. 124, November 1993, pp. 13-18.
Impact assessments
Samuel H. Preston, "Population and the Environment: The Scientific Evidence" in Graham-Smith, Francis, (editor), Population-The Complex Reality. A Report of the Summit of the World's Scientific Academies, London, the Royal Society, 1994, pp. 85-92.
Charles A. S. Hall, R. Gil Pontius, Lisa Coleman and Jae-Young Ko, "The Environmental Consequences of Having a Baby in the United States, in Population and the Environment, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1994, pp. 505-524.
World Resources Institute, "Population and the Environment", in World Resources 1994-1995, Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 27-42.
F. Landis MacKellar, David E. Horlacher and Daniel Vining, Jr., Global Sustainability, Developing Country Consumption and Industrial Country Population, Middlebury College Working Paper #94-1, April 21, 1994.
Barry Commoner, "Rapid Population Growth and Environmental Stress" in Consequences of Rapid Population Growth in Developing Countries, New York, Taylor and Francis Publishers, 1991, pp. 161-190.
Barry Commoner, "Population, Development, and the Environment: Trends and Key Issues in the Developed Countries" in International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 23, No. 3, 1993, pp. 519-539.
Norman Myers, "Population/Environment Linkages: Discontinuities Ahead" in Ambio, Vol. 21, No. 1, February 1992, pp. 116-118.
United Nations Secretariat, "Relations Between Population and Environment in Rural Areas of Developing Countries", Population Bulletin of the United Nations, Nos. 31/32, 1991, pp. 52-69.
ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITS TO POPULATION SIZE
Virginia Abernathy, "Optimism and Overpopulation", in Atlantic Monthly, Vol 274, No. 6, December 1994, pp. 84-91.
Albert A. Bartlett, "Reflections on Sustainability, Population Growth, and the Environment", Population and Environment, Vol. 16, No. 1, September 1994, pp. 5-35.
Gretchen C. Daily, and Anne H. Ehrlich and Paul R. Ehrlich, "Optimum Human Population Size", Population and Environment, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1994, pp. 469-475.
K. O. Emery, "Uncontrolled Growth of Human Populations, Geological Background and Future Prospects" in Population and Environment, Vol. 15, No. 4, March 1994, pp. 303-327.
David Pimentel, Rebecca Harman, Mathew Pacenza, Jason Pecarsky, Marcia Pimentel, "Natural Resources and an Optimal Human Population", Population and Environment, Vol. 15, No. 5, May 1994, pp. 347-369.
Joel E. Cohen, "How Many People Can the Earth Hold?", Discover, Vol. 13, No. 11, November 1992, pp. 114-119.
Mario Giampetro, Sandra G. F. Bukkens and David Pimentel, "Limits to Population Size: Three Scenarios of Energy Interaction Between Human society and Ecosystem" Population and Environment, Vol. 14, No. 2, November 1992, pp. 109-131.
Robert Goodland, "The Case That the World Has Reached Limits: More Precisely That Current Throughput Growth in the Global; Economy Cannot be Sustained", Population and Environment, Vol. 13, No. 3, Spring 1992, pp. 4167-182.
POPULATION AND RENEWABLE RESOURCES
H.W.O. Okoth-Ogendo, "Population and Natural Resource Use", in Graham-Smith, Francis, (editor), Population-The Complex Reality. A Report of the Summit of the World's Scientific Academies, North American Press, Golden Colorado, 1994, pp. 53-57.
Mark Nerlove, "Procreation, Fishing and Hunting: Problems in the Economics of Renewables Resources and Dynamic Planar Systems" in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 75, 1993, pp. 59-71.
Mark Nerlove, "Population and the Environment: A Parable of Firewood and Other Tales", in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 73, 1991, pp. 1334-1357.
Lourdes Arizpe, R. Constanza and Wolfgang Lutz, "Population and Natural Resource Use" in An Agenda for Environment and Development into the 21st Century, edited by C. G. I. Dooge et. al. Cambridge University Press, New York, New York, 1992.
POPULATION GROWTH, DEFORESTATION AND BIODIVERSITY
Norman Myers, "Population and Biodiversity" in Graham-Smith, Francis, (editor), Population-The Complex Reality. A Report of the Summit of the World's Scientific Academies, North American Press, Golden Colorado, 1994, pp.117-136.
Richard Bilsborrow "Population, Development and Deforestation: Some Recent Evidence", in Population, Environment and Development, United Nations, New York, 1994, pp. 117-134.
Maureen Cropper and Charles Griffiths, "The Interaction of Population Growth and Environmental Quality", American Economic Review, Vol. 84, No. 2, May 1994, pp. 250-254.
Sandeep Patel, Thomas K. Pickney and William K. Jaeger, Smallholder Wood Production and Population Pressure in East Africa: Evidence of an Environmental Kuznets Curve?, Research Memorandum Series, No. RM-137, The Center for Development Economics, Williams College, Williamstown Mass., December 1993.
Ock-Kyung Kim, "Demographic Patterns and Wildlife Resources" in International Population Conference: Montreal, 1993, IUSSP, Liege, Belgium, Vol. 4, 1993, pp. 33-54.
Paul Harrison, "The Grinding of the Ax: Deforestation" and "Abatements and Delays: Forest Adjustments" in The Third Revolution: Environment, Population and A Sustainable World, St Martins Press, 1992, pp. 88-114.
Norman Myers "The World's Forests and Human Populations: The Environmental Interconnections" in Resources, Environment and Population: Present Knowledge, Future Options, Kingsley Davis and Mikhail S. Bernstam (editors), New York, Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. 237-251.
Martha E. Geores and Richard E. Bilsborrow, "Population and Environment: A Cross-Country Exploration of Deforestation in Low Income Countries", Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Population Association of America. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Carolina Population Center.
Thomas Rudel, "Population, Development, and Tropical Deforestation: A Cross National Study" in Rural Sociology, Vol. 54 No. 3, 1989.
POPULATION GROWTH, WATER SCARCITY AND LAND DEGRADATION
Water scarcity
Malin Falkenmark and Riga A. Suprapto, "Population-landscape Interactions in Development: A Water Perspective to Environmental Sustainability", in Ambio, Vol. 21, No.1, February, 1992, pp. 31-36.
Malin Falkenmark, Rapid Population Growth and Water Scarcity: The Predicament of Tomorrow's Africa" in Resources, Environment and Population: Present Knowledge and Future Options, Kingsley Davis and Mikhail Bernstam, editors, Oxford University Press, 1991.
Land degradation
Overview
Mark Nerlove, "Reflections on Agricultural Development, Population Growth and the Environment" in Proceedings of the Third Conference on Development Economics, Review of the Asian Development Bank, (forthcoming)
Mary Tiffen, "Population Density, Economic Growth and Societies in Transition", in Development and Change, Vol. 26, 1995, pp. 31-66.
Mary Tiffen and Michael Mortimore, "Population Growth and Natural Resource Use: Do We Need to Dispair for Africa? in Outlook for Agriculture, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 241-249.
Richard E. Bilsborrow, H .W. O. Ogendo, "Population-driven Changes in Land Use in Developing Countries" in Ambio, Vol 21, No. 1, February 1992, pp. 37-45.
Richard E. Bilsborrow, "Rural Poverty, Migration and the Environment in Developing Countries: Three Case Studies", Policy Research Working Paper: World Development Report, No. WPS 1017, November 1992, World Bank, Washington, D.C., 1992.
Richard E. Bilsborrow, "Population Growth, Internal Migration And Environmental Degradation in Rural Areas of Developing Countries" in European Journal of Population, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1992, pp. 125-148.
Richard E. Bilsborrow and Martha Geores, "Population Land Use, and the Environment in Developing Countries: What Can We Learn From Cross-National Data?", paper presented at the NAS Workshop on Population and Land Use, Washington D.C., December 4-5 1991.
Theodore Panatoyou, "Population Change and Land Use in Developing Countries: The Case of Thailand" paper presented at the NAS Workshop on Population and Land Use, Washington D.C., December 4-5 1991.
Richard Bilsborrow and Pamela DeLargy, "Land Use, Migration, and Natural Resource Deterioration: The Experience of Guatemala and the Sudan" in Resources, Environment and Population: Present Knowledge and Future Options, Kingsley Davis and Mikhail Bernstam, editors, Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. 125-147.
Uma Lele and S. W. Stone, Population Pressure, the Environment and Agricultural Intensification: Variations on the Boserup Hypothesis. MAIDA Discussion Paper 4, Washington D.C., The World Bank, 1989.
Richard Billsborrow, "Population Pressures and Agricultural Development in Developing Countries: A Conceptual Framework and Recent Evidence", in World Development, Vol. 15, no. 2, 1987, pp. 182-203.
Africa
John F. May, "Policies on Population, Land Use and Environment in Rwanda", Population and Environment, Vol. 16, No. 4, March 1995, pp. 321-334.
David Shapiro, "Population Growth, Changing Agricultural Practices and Environmental Degradation in Zaire, Population and Environment, Vol. 16, No. 3, January 1995, pp. 221-236.
Mary Tiffen and Michael Mortimore, "Malthus Controverted: The Role of Capital and Technology in Growth and Environmental Recovery in Kenya", in World Development, vol. 22, No. 7, July 1994, pp. 997-1010.
Michael Mortimore, "Population Growth and Land Degradation", in GeoJournal, Vol. 31, No. 1, September 1993, pp. 15-21.
Z. A. Ogutu, "Responding to Population Pressure in Rural Kenya", in GeoJournal, Vol. 30, No. 4, August 1993, pp. 409-419.
Stein Hansen, "Population and the Environment", in African Development Review, Vol. 4, No. 2, December 1992, pp. 118-164.
Asia
Robert Repetto "Soil Loss and Population Pressure in Java" in Population and Resources in a Changing World: Current Readings, Kingsley Davis, Mikhail Bernstam and Helen Sellers. (editors), Palo Alto, Stanford University, 1989, pp. 305-314.
POPULATION GROWTH AND THE ATMOSPHERE
Energy use
David Price, "Energy and Human Evolution", Population and Environment, Vol. 16, No. 4, March 1995, pp. 301-319.
Marianne Rasmuson and Rolf Zetterstrom, "World Population and Energy Demands" in Ambio, Vol. 21, No. 1, February 1992, pp. 70-74.
John P. Holdren, "Population and the Energy Problem", Population and Environment, Vol. 12, No. 3, Spring 1991, pp. 231-255.
Amory Lovins, "Energy, People and Industrialization" in Resources, Environment and Population: Present Knowledge, Future Options, Kingsley Davis and Mikhail Bernstam (editors), New York, Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. 95-124.
Bernard Gilland "Population, Economic Growth and Energy Demand" in Population and Development Review, Volume 14, Number 2, June 1988, pp. 223-244.
Global warming
Gerhard K. Heilig, "The Greenhouse Gas Methane (CH4): Sources and Sinks, the Impact of Population Growth, Possible Interventions", Population and Environment, Vol. 16, No. 2, November 1994, pp. 109-137.
William D. Nordhaus, "Reflections on the Economics of Climate Change", Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 7, No. 4, Fall 1993, pp. 11-25.
Francoise Bartiaux and Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, "The Role of Population Growth in Global Warming", in International Population Conference: Montreal, 1993, IUSSP, Liege, Belgium, Vol. 4, 1993, pp. 33-54.
John Bongaarts, Population Growth and Global Warming" in Population and Development Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, June 1992.
Thomas C. Schelling, "Some Economics of Global Warming", American Economic Review, March 1992, Vol. 82, No. 1, pp. 1-14.
Nancy Birdsall, "Another Look at Population and Global Warming", in United Nations, Population, Environment and Development: Report of an Expert Group Meeting on Population, Environment and Development, 20-24 January 1992, United Nations, New York, 1994. pp. 39-54. also Policy Research Working Paper: Population, Health and Nutrition, No. WPS 1020, World Bank, Country Economics Department, November 1992.
George W. Rathjens, "Energy and Climate Change" in Preserving the Global Environment, Jessica Tuchman Mathews (editor), American Assembly, 1991, pp. 154-186.
Vlaclav Smil, "Planetary Warming: Realities and Responses", Population and Development Review, Vol. 16, No. 1, March 1990, pp. 1-30.