| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 413 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Timothy E. Wirth -- Introduction / Laurie Mazur -- Human population grows up / Joel E. Cohen -- Largest generation comes of age / Martha Farnsworth Riche -- People on the move : population, migration, and the environment / Susan Gibbs -- Urban millennium / United Nations Population Fund -- Climate change and population growth / Brian C. O'Neill -- Fair weather, lasting world / Robert Engelman -- Adapting to climate change : the role of reproductive health / Malea Hoepf Young [and others] -- Population growth, ecosystem services, and human well-being / Lynne Gaffikin -- Numbers matter : human population as a dynamic factor in environmental degradation / John Harte -- Environmental justice in an urbanizing world / Gordon McGranahan -- New economics of population change / Rachel Nugent -- Food : will there be enough? / Lester R. Brown -- Understanding the global food crisis : Malthusian nightmare or free-trade fiasco? / Walden Bello -- How much is left? an overview of the water crisis / Eleanor Sterling and Erin Vintinner -- Biggest footprint : population and consumption in the United States / Vicky Markham -- Population growth, reproductive health, and the future of Africa / Fred T. Sai -- Cancún : paradise lost / Adriana Varillas -- Flip side : how the environment impacts our reproductive health / Charlotte Brody and Julia Varshavsky -- Cairo : the unfinished revolution / Carmen Barroso and Steven W. Sinding -- New population challenge / Judith Bruce and John Bongaarts -- Rethinking U.S. population policy / Suzanne Petroni -- Going to extremes : population politics and reproductive rights in Peru / Susana Chávez Alvarado with Jacqueline Nolley Echegaray -- Mobilizing constituencies : achieving sexual reproductive health and rights for all / Adrienne Germain -- Women at the center / Ellen Chesler -- Taking stock : linking population, health, and the environment / Roger-Mark De Souza -- From crisis to sustainability / James Gustave Speth -- Reproductive rights are human rights / Jacqueline Nolley Echegaray and Shira Saperstein -- Over-breeding and the population bomb : the reemergence of nativism and population control in anti-immigration policies / Priscilla Huang -- Christian perspectives on population issues / James B. Martin-Schramm -- Ecomorality : toward an ethic of sustainability / Ursula Goodenough -- Reconciling differences : population, reproductive rights, and the environment / Frances Kissling -- Afterword : work for justice? / Laurie Mazur and Shira Saperstein. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Population -- Environmental aspects.
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Population -- Environmental aspects. |
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Social justice.
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Social justice. |
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Sustainable development.
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Sustainable development. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Mazur, Laurie Ann.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pivotal moment. Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 2010 9781597266611 (DLC) 2009026573 (OCoLC)406122449 |
| ISBN |
9781610911412 (electronic book) |
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1610911415 (electronic book) |
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9781597266611 |
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1597266612 |
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9781597266628 |
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1597266620 |
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