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This ambitious interdisciplinary volume places population processes in their social, political, and economic contexts while it considers their environmental impacts. The contributors, who explore the subtle and complex connections between population and environment, argue for the fundamental insight that the impact of population on the environment involves not just absolute numbers of people--nor even just population densities--but also social, political, and institutional factors.Examining the complex patterns of human relationships that overlay, alter, and distort our ties to urban and rural landscapes, the book includes a significant focus on the essential experiences and perspectives of poor Third World women. With its rich and varied views of the relationship between population and the environment, this book offers a more equitable view of development and its global ramifications.

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• Preface(p. vii)
• Rethinking The Population-Environment Debate(p. 1)
• References(p. 9)
• Part 1 Population and Environment Overviews and Methodologies(p. 11)
• Introduction to Part One(p. 13)
• 1 The Social Dimensions of Population(p. 15)
• References(p. 37)
• 2 World Population Trends Global and Regional Interactions Between Population and Environment(p. 41)
• References(p. 64)
• 3 Women, Poverty and Population Issues for the Concerned Environmentalist(p. 67)
• References(p. 84)
• 4 The Gender and Environment Debate Lessons from India(p. 87)
• Notes(p. 118)
• 5 The Relation Between Population and Deforestation Methods for Drawing Causal Inferences From Macro and Micro Studies(p. 125)
• References(p. 161)
• Part 2 Population and Environment Reviews and Case Studies(p. 167)
• Introduction to Part Two(p. 169)
• Reference(p. 169)
• 6 Population Change and Agricultural Intensification in Developing Countries(p. 171)
• References(p. 202)
• 7 The Social Context of Land Degradation ("Desertification") in Dry Regions(p. 209)
• References(p. 243)
• 8 The Socioeconomic Matrix Of Deforestation(p. 253)
• References(p. 271)
• 9 Problems of Population and Environment In Extractive Economies(p. 277)
• References(p. 298)
• 10 Urbanization and the Environment In Developing Countries: Latin America In Comparative Perspective(p. 303)
• References(p. 332)
• Part 3 Population and Environment Conclusions(p. 337)
• 11 Conclusions Rethinking The Population-Environment Debate(p. 339)
• About the Editors and Contributors(p. 349)
• Index(p. 351)

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Opposing positions in the debate to which the subtitle refers are (a) that a growing population is the major threat to the earth's finite resources and therefore to the environment, and (b) that continued population growth can be handled because human ingenuity will produce new technologies and substitutes for diminishing raw materials. Proponents of the former view, the "doomdayers," argue that there is a direct and strong relationship between continued global population growth and a progressively degraded environment. Those who hold the second view, the "cornucopians," deny that any such relationship exists. Both positions depend for support on macro, global evidence. The major emphasis of this volume is the need to examine population-environment relationships in the social, political, and economic contexts in which they occur, whether local, national, or global. Further, the very general concepts of population and environment must be more clearly specified if research results are to be useful to policy makers. Generally well-written and accessible (only one chapter is technical), the contributions make some impressive steps to achieve these and other objectives. Substantively, chapters address a number of environmental problems in various Third World locales: desertification, agricultural intensification, deforestation, resource extraction, and urbanization. In fact, the major shortcoming of the collection is the limited attention given to developed countries. Upper-division undergraduates and above. K. Hadden; University of Connecticut