No-Nonsense Guide to World Population
Will be published approx. on 1. September 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-1-906523-46-6 (ISBN)
Description
Are we heading for a population 'explosion'? How many people can the planet sustain?
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 109 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-906523-46-6 (9781906523466)
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Vanessa Baird
The No-Nonsense Guide to World Population
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Person
Vanessa Baird has been co-editor at New Internationalist magazine since 1986. Previous books include, as compiler and editor, Eye to Eye Women.
Content
- Foreword by David Satterthwaite
- Introduction
- Are too many people being born?
- A brief history of population
- Being alive, staying alive - and growing old
- A woman's body
- For richer, for poorer
- On the move
- Population and climate change
- How can we feed nine billion?
- Wild things
- Conclusion
- Resources
- Index