From the Book - Regular Print - Second edition.
1 World Population: An Overview 1 --
Population Growth Rates 3 --
World Population-Past 9 --
World Population-Present 11 --
World Population-Future 13 --
Population Policies: Pronatalist 20 --
Population Policies: Antinatalist 22 --
Population Policy: China and India 24 --
Global Population Policy 26 --
2 Problems and Controversies 31 --
Malthus and Overpopulation Fears 31 --
Population Optimists 34 --
Problems of Population Density 35 --
Population and the Environment 37 --
Great Population Slowdown 41 --
Depopulation Worries 44 --
Problems of a Graying Population 48 --
Pronatal Policies: Can They Work? 49 --
3 Special U.S. Issues 55 --
Is the United States an Exceptional Nation, Demographically Speaking? 55 --
What Makes American Fertility Different? 58 --
Threat to Social Security Pensions 61 --
Social Security Fixes 62 --
Medicare and Medicaid 65 --
International Family Planning: Early U.S. Support 67 --
"Mexico City" and Abortion Politics 69 --
Principle and Practice 70 --
Fewer People, Declining Influence? 72 --
Human Numbers-Not the Whole Story 74 --
John Bongaarts (1945-) 105 --
Norman Borlaug (1914-) 106 --
Ester Boserup (1910-1999) 108 --
Lester R. Brown (1934-) 109 --
Joel E. Cohen (1944-) 110 --
Paul Demeny (1932-) 111 --
Nicholas Eberstadt (1955-) 112 --
Paul R. Ehrlich (1932-) 113 --
Werner Fornos (1933-) 114 --
Thomas Homer-Dixon (1956-) 116 --
Richard Jackson (1955-) 117 --
Wolfgang Lutz (1956-) 118 --
Carolyn B. Maloney (1948-) 119 --
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) 119 --
Thoraya Obaid (1946-) 121 --
Walter Plowright (1923-) 121 --
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) 123 --
Amartya K. Sen (1933-) 124 --
Julian L. Simon (1932-1998) 125 --
Steven W. Sinding (1943-) 126 --
Christopher H. Smith (1953-) 127 --
Marie Stopes (1880-1958) 129 --
M. S. Swaminathan (1925-) 129 --
Ben Wattenberg (1933-) 133 --
6 Statistics and Graphs 133 --
Essay on Population (1798) 159 --
Population Growth, Resource Consumption, and a Sustainable World: Joint Statement by the Royal Society of London and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (February 1992) 164 --
Warning to Humanity, November 18, 1992 169 --
National Security Study Memorandum 200 (December 10, 1974) 174 --
World Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision-Highlights 180 --
Census Bureau Projects Doubling of Nation's Population by 2100 185 --
World Population to 2300 187 --
Program of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 1994 191 --
World Population Policies 2003 198 --
United Nations Principles for Older Persons 202 --
Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002 204 --
8 Directory of Organizations 211 --
9 Selected Print and Nonprint Resources 231 --
Handbooks, Yearbooks, and Data Sheets 248 --
Nonprint Resources 251 --
Contact Information for Video Distributors and Vendors 270.
From the Book - Regular Print
World population : an overview
Directory of organizations