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基本説明
Translated by Carl Ipsen. For the third edition, the author has updated the current estimates and projections on world population on the year 2050, with a section on the geopolitical implications of demographic increase on different regions of the world.
Full Description
Since its original publication in 1992, this book has become the standard history of world population. Its underlying purpose is to explain the links between nature, culture, and population and thereby to look at ways of preventing future environmental collapse and human catastrophe. Coverage of the changing patterns of population growth, and the effects of migrations, wars, disease, technology and culture, are addressed. For the third edition, the author has included new estimates and projections on world population to the year 2050, and updated the quantitative documentation and the bibliography. He has expanded the text on the geopolitical implications of demographic increase on different regions of the world and added sections on the effects of HIV on mortality and on sustainability of an extended life span. At the same time, the features that made previous editions attractive have been retained: the informative and accessible style, the reasoned treatment of issues crucial to the future of every species, and the contemporary recasting of theory.
Contents
List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. 1. The Space and Strategy of Demographic Growth. 2. Demographic Growth: Between Choice and Constraint. 3. Land, Labor, and Population. 4. Toward Order and Efficiency: The Recent Demography of Europe and the Developed World. 5. The Populations of Poor Countries. 6. The Future. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index.