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How Many People Can the Earth Support? »

Authors: Joel E. Cohen
ISBN-13: 9780393314953, ISBN-10: 0393314952
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: September 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Joel E. Cohen is head of the Laboratory of Populations at the Rockefeller University. He lives in New York City.

A compelling new analysis of world population issues and what the numbers tell us. . . .

Biologist Cohen investigates the Earth's human carrying capacity. (Sept.)

Pt. 1	Introduction	3
1	Between Choices and Constraints	5
Pt. 2	Past Human Population Growth	23
2	Four Evolutions in Population Growth	25
3	People Control the Growth of Nonhuman Populations	32
4	People Control the Growth of Human Populations	46
5	Human Population History in Numbers and Graphs	76
6	The Uniqueness of the Present Relative to the Past	97
Pt. 3	Future Human Population Growth	107
7	Projection Methods: The Hazy Crystal Ball	109
8	Mathematical cartoons of human population size and carrying capacity
	Notes	447
	Bibliography	481
	Acknowledgments	505
	Index	507