Vanessa Baird

The No-Nonsense Guide to World Population

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Produktbeschreibung

Are we heading for a population 'explosion'? How many people can the planet sustain?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Internationalist
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 109mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 136g
• ISBN-13: 9781906523466
• ISBN-10: 1906523460
• Artikelnr.: 33327880

Autorenporträt

Vanessa Baird has been co-editor at New Internationalist magazine since 1986. Previous books include, as compiler and editor, Eye to Eye Women.

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword by David Satterthwaite
* Introduction
1. Are too many people being born?
2. A brief history of population
3. Being alive, staying alive - and growing old
4. A woman's body
5. For richer, for poorer
6. On the move
7. Population and climate change
8. How can we feed nine billion?
9. Wild things
10. Conclusion
* Resources
* Index