People and their Planet: Searching for Balance [Paperback]

This book brings together research on the relations between people and the planet's living and non-living resources. Its three main foci include the methodological approaches to the study of relationships between people and land use, patterns of consumption, population trends and the availability of food and water resources; an examination of evidence of disequilibria in increasing conflicts, migrations, and over-crowding; and a search for balance between people and the other elements of the biosphere through understanding and overcoming destructive forces.List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Contributors Foreword; N.Sadik Overview: The Population-Environment Equation: Implications for Future Security; B.S.Baudot Introduction Dimensions of the Population-Environment Equation; B.S.Baudot PART I: FACTORS IN THE EQUATION Population and Environment Relationships in Developing Countries: Recent Approaches and Methods; C.M.Marquette and R.E.Bilsborrow Population, Environment, and Sustainable Development: Global Issues; J.N.Jordan Population, Affluence, or Technology? An Empirical Look at National Carbon; W.R.Moomaw and D.M.Tullis Colonist Land-Allocation Decisions, Land Use, and Deforestation in the Ecuadorian; A.Frontier and F.J.Pich?opulation-Environment Dynamics in Lahat: A Case Study of Deforestation in a Regency of South Sumatra Province, Indonesia; L.Heydir Water, Food, and Population; S.L.Postel Population as a Scale Factor: Impacts on Environment and Development; R.Engelman PART II: THE EQUATION OUT-OF-BALANCE Population Dynamics Revisited: Lessons for Foreign Aid and US Immigration Policy; V.D.Abernethy Population and Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century: India's Megacities; S.F.Krishna-Hensel Mexico City: Current Demographic and Environmental Trends; H.Izazola and C.M.Marquette The Environmental Impacts of Refugee Settlement: A Case Study of an Agricultural Camp in Zambia; V.Lassailly-Jacob The Struggle Over Transboundary Fresh Water Resoul“W