Authors: K. Bruce Newbold
ISBN-13: 9780742539280, ISBN-10: 0742539288
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: June 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Recognizing that world population growth will be explosive well into the twenty-first century, Six Billion Plus offers a geographical and global perspective on the profound implications of this trend. This compact, balanced, and accessible text focuses on the key factors that will shape the global environment in the decades to come, including population fertility, epidemics like HIV/AIDS, legal and illegal immigration, refugee flows, scarce resources, and the potential for conflict. This fully updated edition will be an invaluable resource for all readers concerned with the intertwined issues of population, environment, and health.
Introduction : the world of child six billion | 1 | |
1 | Fertility and state policy | 17 |
2 | The (un?)certainty of death and disease | 49 |
3 | The impact of HIV and AIDS | 73 |
4 | Immigration : closing or opening the door? | 101 |
5 | Refugees, asylees, and internally displaced persons : the growing crisis | 141 |
6 | Population, economic growth, resources, and the environment | 165 |
7 | The potential for conflict | 193 |
Conclusion : five demographic forces that will shape the world | 215 |