Virginia Abernethy, Garrett Hardin

Population Politics (eBook, ePUB)

The Choices That Shape Our Future

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Why, after several decades of helping poor countries improve their standard of living, is poverty still the rule? This is a provocative examination of international efforts to regulate fertility rates, and of the influence of aid and liberal policies on world population growth.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351320825
• Artikelnr.: 54007924

Autorenporträt

Virginia Abernethy, Garrett Hardin

Inhaltsangabe

I: Framing the Issues
1: Growth
2: A Global Dilemma
II: Why Growth Flies out of Control
3: Belief as Part of the Problem
4: Cultural Brakes
5: Where to Look for Balance
6: Which Incentives?
7: Development Alone May Spur Population Growth
8: Culture: Make or Break
III: The Big Picture
9: One-World
10: Potlatching Twentieth-Century Style
11: Helping While Not Harming
12: Conservation, Incentives, and Ethics
13: Limiting Factors
IV: America
14: Kissing the Blarney Stone and Other Tales
15: History Does Not Stop
16: The Path to Poverty
17: All Our People
18: The Carrying Capacity of the United States
19: And Away We Go
20: Let Freedom Ring
21: Taking Hold