World Population: A Reference Handbook

World Population: A Reference Handbook
ISBN-10
1576072290
ISBN-13
9781576072295
Category
Reference
Pages
223
Language
English
Published
2001-01-01
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Author
Geoffrey Gilbert

Description

World Population provides the resources needed to understand the economic, demographic, and environmental issues at stake on a planet rushing toward "carrying capacity." * Gives a chronology of events including the re-emergence of the bubonic plague in Europe in 1347, legislation such as Roe v. Wade, and movements like the one-child policy enacted in 1979 in China * Includes 21 biographical sketches of activists such as Worldwatch founder Lester R. Brown, birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger, and legislators including He Kang, Chinese minister of agriculture

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