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Published July 1988 through June 1999
FROM VOLUME 8, NUMBER 9, SEPTEMBER 1995
REPORTS...
POPULATION GROWTH
Item #d95sep105
 Stabilizing the Atmosphere: Population, Consumption and Greenhouse
Gases, R. Engelman, 48 pp., Oct. 1994, $8. Population Action Intl., 1120
19th St. NW, Washington DC 20036 (tel: 202 659 1833; fax: 202 293 1795).
Reductions in CO2 emissions and stabilization of population are both key
factors in stopping anthropogenic climate change. Proposes a system of tradeable
permits for emitting CO2, to be allocated to each country by the size of its
population. Emissions should be lowered to 40% of 1990 levels.
Item #d95sep106
The State of World Population 1995, July 1995. Available
in several languages from U.N. Population Fund, 220 East 42nd St., Rm. 2303, New
York NY 10017 (tel: 212 297 5279; fax: 212 557 6414; e-mail: ryanw@unfpa.org);
full text only available electronically via gopher:
//gopher.undp.org/11/ungophers/popin/unfpa/swp95.
World population will rise from its current 5.7 billion to between 7.9 and
11.9 billion by the year 2050. Growth by the year 2015 will largely be
determined by action taken during this decade. Highlights progress toward
population control made during the past 30 years, and the many problems that
remain. Also documents recent implementation of the Program of Action resulting
from the Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, September 1994).
Item #d95sep107
Linkages Between Population, Environment and Development,
K. Ghimire, 1994. U.N. RISD, Reference Ctr., Palais de Nations, CH-1211 Geneva
10, Switz.
Although population growth is commonly assumed to be directly responsible
for environmental degradation and the depletion of natural resources, an
analysis based on case studies of 30 localities in Costa Rica, Pakistan and
Uganda suggests otherwise. The main causes are the commercialization of
production and various state policies that undermine traditional resource use
and encourage the concentration of population in certain areas.
Item #d95sep108
Population Complications: Understanding the Population Debate, M.
Brower, 20 pp., 1994, $4. Union of Concerned Scientists, Two Brattle Square,
Cambridge MA 02238.
Presents alternative viewpoints in the debates over the impacts of
population growth and strategies for reducing growth rates. Population growth is
connected to poverty, hunger, and environmental destruction in ways that are
complex, indirect, and often misunderstood.
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