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Population, economic development, and the environment / edited by Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling and Hans Landberg. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994. - xxii, 284 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Population, development, and institutional change: summary and analy sis / Tommy Bentsson, Christer Gunnarsson -- The environmental resource base and human welfare / Partha Dasgupta, Carl Folke, Karl-Gèoran Mèal er -- Population and reasoned agency: food, fertility, and economic dev elopment / Amartya Sen -- An ecologist view of the Malthusian conflict / C.S. Holling -- 'Children are like young bamboo trees': potentiality and reproduction in Sub-Saharan Africa / Caroline Bledsoe -- Economic a nalysis of fertility: micro-foundations and aggregate implications / Ro bert J. Willis -- Government, population, and poverty: a 'win-win' tale / Nancy Birdsall -- Institutional analysis of fertility / Geoffrey McN icoll -- The relevance of Malthus for the study of mortality today: lon g-run influences on health, mortality, labour force participation and p opulation growth / Robert Fogel.

ISBN: 0198289502

LCCN: 95-113967

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Population-- Economic aspects.
Population-- Environmental aspects.
Population policy.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Developing countries-- Population.

Dewey Class. No.: 304.6