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In September 1994, world leaders will gather in Cairo, Egypt, for the third decennial United Nations conference on population. The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) provides a crucial opportunity to address trends in population growth and resource consumption that pose grave threats to the quality of life on earth.
Beyond the Numbers presents a thought-provoking series of essays by leading authorities on issues of population and consumption. The essays both define the poles of debate and explore common ground beyond the polarized rhetoric. As well as providing a sense of the complex nature of these issues, they make clear that constructive action is possible.
Topics covered include the interrelationships between population, economic growth, resource consumption, and development; the history of population and family planning efforts; gender equality and the empowerment of women; reproductive rights, reproductive health, and family planning; international migration and urbanization; religious perspectives on population; and population and national security.
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Birth control, Population, Population policy, Environmental protection, Consumption (Economics), Société de consommation, Accroissement de la population, Environnement, Política demográfica, Consumo (Economía política), Conservation of Natural Resources, Bevolkingspolitiek, Bevolkingsvraagstuk, Consommation, Family Planning Policy, Medio ambiente, Protección del, Protection, Natalidad, Limitación de la, Politique démographique, Régulation des naissances, Population., Population policy., Birth control., Environmental protection.Showing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Beyond the numbers: a reader on population, consumption, and the environment
1994, Island Press
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Beyond the Numbers: A Reader on Population, Consumption and the Environment
April 1, 1994, Island Press
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Beyond the Numbers: A Reader on Population, Consumption and the Environment
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"The debate has been going on for almost two hundred years, since the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus, in reaction to a group of optimistic French writers, penned his famous dictum in his 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population: "Taking the population of the world at any number ... the human species would increase in the ratio of - 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,&c, and subsistence as - 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,&c.""
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