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100 1 $aCohen, Joel E.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85146313
245 10 $aHow many people can the earth support? /$cJoel E. Cohen.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bNorton,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $ax, 532 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [481]-504) and index.
505 00 $gPt. 1.$tIntroduction.$g1.$tBetween Choices and Constraints --$gPt. 2.$tPast Human Population Growth.$g2.$tFour Evolutions in Population Growth.$g3.$tPeople Control the Growth of Nonhuman Populations.$g4.$tPeople Control the Growth of Human Populations.$g5.$tHuman Population History in Numbers and Graphs.$g6.$tThe Uniqueness of the Present Relative to the Past --$gPt. 3.$tFuture Human Population Growth.$g7.$tProjection Methods: The Hazy Crystal Ball.$g8.$tMathematical cartoons of human population size and carrying capacity.
520 $aPast attempts to answer this question have ranged widelyfrom less than 1 billion to more than 1,000 billion - one sign that there is no single right answer. More than half of the estimates, however, fall within a much narrower range: between 4 billion and 16 billion.
520 8 $aIn any case, with the world population now at 5.7 billion, and increasing by approximately 90 million per year, we have clearly entered a zone where limits on the human carrying capacity of the Earth have been anticipated, and may well be encountered.
520 8 $aIn this penetrating analysis of one of the most crucial questions of our time, a leading scholar in the field reviews the history of world population growth and gives a refreshingly frank appraisal of what little can be known about its future. In the process, he offers the most comprehensive account yet available of how various people have tried to estimate the planet's human carrying capacity.
520 8 $aFew contemporary writers have addressed the issue of world population growth in such a balanced, objective way, without using it as a pretext to advance a prior political agenda.
650 0 $aPopulation density.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104918
650 0 $aPopulation$xEconomic aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95009860
650 0 $aPopulation forecasting.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104919
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