From Malthus to the Club of Rome and back : problems of limits to growth, population control, and migrations /

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Main Author: Neurath, Paul
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [1994]
Series:Columbia University seminar series.
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Table of Contents:
  • The early history of demography before Malthus
  • How many people could live on this earth? Changes of an argument
  • The "limits to growth" debate: from Malthus to the "Club of Rome" and back
  • Models of the world's problems and problems with the world models
  • Comments at the 6th Global Modeling Conference, Vienna-Laxenburg, 1978
  • On a contradiction within the Bariloche Model (It computes for the people of Asia more years of average life expectancy than food on which to live that long)
  • The price and availability of oil and the food situation of the Third World
  • Chinese population policy from 1949 to 1984
  • Population policies in Japan, China, and India: a comparison of problems and of measures taken
  • The great migrations of the nineteenth and twentieth century.