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Author : Michael E. Endres
Publisher : Halsted Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015007259867
Author : Emily Klancher Merchant
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197558966
Across the twentieth century, Earth's human population increased undeniably quickly, rising from 1.6 billion people in 1900 to 6.1 billion in 2000. As population grew, it also began to take the blame for some of the world's most serious problems, from global poverty to environmental degradation, and became an object of intervention for governments and nongovernmental organizations. But the links between population, poverty, and pollution were neither obvious nor uncontested. Building the Population Bomb tells the story of the twentieth-century population crisis by examining how scientists, philanthropists, and governments across the globe came to define the rise of the world's human numbers as a problem. It narrates the history of demography and population control in the twentieth century, examining alliances and rivalries between natural scientists concerned about the depletion of the world's natural resources, social scientists concerned about a bifurcated global economy, philanthropists aiming to preserve American political and economic hegemony, and heads of state in the Global South seeking rapid economic development. It explains how these groups forged a consensus that promoted fertility limitation at the expense of women, people of color, the world's poor, and the Earth itself. As the world's population continues to grow--with the United Nations projecting 11 billion people by the year 2100--Building the Population Bomb steps back from the conventional population debate to demonstrate that our anxieties about future population growth are not obvious but learned. Ultimately, this critical volume shows how population growth itself is not a barrier to economic, environmental, or reproductive justice; rather, it is our anxiety over population growth that distracts us from the pursuit of these urgent goals.
Author : Paul R. Ehrlich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1568495870
Author : Carole R. McCann
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295999111
Figuring the Population Bomb traces the genealogy of twentieth-century demographic �facts� that created a mathematical panic about a looming population explosion. This narrative was popularized in the 1970s in Paul Ehrlich�s best-selling book The Population Bomb, which pathologized population growth in the Global South by presenting a doomsday scenario of widespread starvation resulting from that growth. Carole McCann uses an archive of foundational texts, disciplinary histories, participant reminiscences, and organizational records to reveal the gendered geopolitical grounds of the specialized mathematical culture, bureaucratic organization, and intertextual hierarchy that gave authority to the concept of population explosion. These demographic theories and measurement practices ignited the population �crisis� and moved nations to interfere in women�s reproductive lives. Figuring the Population Bomb concludes that mid-twentieth-century demographic figures remain authoritative to this day in framing the context of transnational feminist activism for reproductive justice.
Author : Emily Klancher Merchant
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9780197558942
'Building the Population Bomb' carefully examines how the rise of the world's human population came to be understood as problematic by scientists and governments across the globe. It challenges our assumption of population growth as inherently problematic by demonstrating how it is our anxieties over population growth - and not population growth itself - that have detracted from the pursuit of economic, environmental, and reproductive justice.
Author : Aya Homei
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781009186834
A major new study tracing historical roots of the interplay between policy, population and science in Japan from the 1860s-1950s.
Author : Derek S. Hoff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226347653
“A powerful model of how to understand the complex array of issues that will shape the political economy of population in the future.”—American Historical Review From the founders’ fears that crowded cities would produce corruption, luxury, and vice to the zero population growth movement of the late 1960s to today’s widespread fears of an aging crisis as the Baby Boomers retire, the American population debate has always concerned much more than racial composition or resource exhaustion, the aspects of the debate usually emphasized by historians. In The State and the Stork, Derek Hoff draws on his extraordinary knowledge of the intersections between population and economic debates throughout American history to explain the many surprising ways that population anxieties have provoked unexpected policies and political developments—including the recent conservative revival. At once a fascinating history and a revelatory look at the deep origins of a crucial national conversation, The State and the Stork could not be timelier. “Hoff has done a real service by bringing to the foreground the economic dimension of U.S. debates over population size and growth, a topic that has been relegated to the shadows for too long.”—Population and Development Review “After decades of failed efforts by the scientific community to alert the public to the environmental dangers of population growth and overpopulation, a first-rate historian has finally detailed both the arguments and their policy implications . . . Everyone interested in population should read The State and the Stork. This is an incredibly timely book.”—Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb
Author : Ian Robert Dowbiggin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195188585
The author ends by shedding light on the practical and ethical difficulties of distinguishing coercion from choice in reproductive-health policy. What does informed consent in birth control really mean on the ground? Whose needs are actually served in attempts to reduce fertility rates? According to Dowbiggin, the twentieth-century birth control movement never entirely shed its eugenic origins."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Richard D. North
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Human ecology
ISBN : 0719045673
This text re-evaluates global questions such as feeding the world, energy, pollution and green consumerism. It argues that the fashionable view that "progress" opposes "caring for the environment" should be dropped, and that people should be satisfied with a permanent change in their environment.
Author : Gary Stanley Becker
Publisher : Hoover Institution Press Publi
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015037336743
British garden writer Graham Rice provides a history, description, and assessment of selected common and unusual perennial garden plants for each season. Includes handsome bandw drawings and 24 pages of fine color photographs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : David Jeremiah,C. C. Carlson
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781418508166
New Age philosophy is really ancient paganism repackaged for modern consumption. David Jeremiah shows how this new spirituality is flooding our culture with teachings and terminology that clearly contradict the Christian Gospel.
Author : Oliver Morton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691175904
First published in Great Britain by Granta Books, 2015.
Author : C. Ford Runge,Benjamin Senauer,Philip G. Pardey,Mark W. Rosegrant
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801877261
At a time in history when conflict erupts daily in far-flung corners of the world, ending severe deprivation may be critical to global peace and stability. Yet we are far from reaching the goal of reducing hunger by 2025. The authors of this book bring good news: hunger can be banished in our lifetime. They first distill what is already known about fighting hunger and then report on important new research findings and projections that show it can be done, through new and renewed institutions, scientific innovation, global economics and investment, and sustainable environmental practices. Although the book encompasses a wide array of ideas, arguments, facts, and figures, it is not a dry, academic text. Anyone wanting a better understanding of poverty and hunger and how to end it will benefit from reading it.
Author : The Population Knowledge Network
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317479628
This reader on the history of demography and historical perspectives on "population" in the twentieth century features a unique collection of primary sources from around the globe, written by scholars, politicians, journalists, and activists. Many of the sources are available in English for the first time. Background information is provided on each source. Together, the sources mirror the circumstances under which scientific knowledge about "population" was produced, how demography evolved as a discipline, and how demographic developments were interpreted and discussed in different political and cultural settings. Readers thereby gain insight into the historical precedents on debates on race, migration, reproduction, natural resources, development and urbanization, the role of statistics in the making of the nation state, and family structures and gender roles, among others. The reader is designed for undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars in the fields of demography and population studies as well as to anyone interested in the history of science and knowledge.
Author : Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317281436
The 1960s and early 70s saw the evolution of Frontier Myths even as scholars were renouncing the interpretive value of myths themselves. Works like Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War exemplified that rejection using his experiences during the Vietnam War to illustrate the problematic consequences of simple mythic idealism. Simultaneously, Americans were playing with expanded and revised versions of familiar Frontier Myths, though in a contemporary context, through NASA’s lunar missions, Star Trek, and Gerard K. O’Neill’s High Frontier. This book examines the reasons behind the exclusion of Frontier Myths to the periphery of scholarly discourse, and endeavors to build a new model for understanding their enduring significance. This model connects NASA’s failed attempts to recycle earlier myths, wholesale, to Star Trek’s revision of those myths and rejection of the idea of a frontier paradise, to O’Neill’s desire to realize such a paradise in Earth’s orbit. This new synthesis defies the negative connotations of Frontier Myths during the 1960s and 70s and attempts to resuscitate them for relevance in the modern academic context.