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How Many People Can the Earth Support?

by Joel E. Cohen

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With the world population now at 5.7 billion, and increasing by about 90 million per year, we have clearly entered a zone where we can see, and may well encounter, limits on the human carrying capacity of the Earth. In this penetrating analysis of one of the most crucial questions of our time, a leading scholar in the field reviews the history of world population growth and appraises what can be known about its future.

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/COHEN A compelling new analysis of world population, this penetrating assessment of one of the most crucial issues of our time reviews the history of world popluation growth and appraises that can be known about its future. "The definitive work on the global population problem".--Edward O. Wilson. Excerpts in The Sciences and Dis
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ISBN:
9780393314953
Author:
Cohen, Joel E.
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Subject:
General
Subject:
Environmental Science
Subject:
Government and political science
Subject:
History, theory and practice
Subject:
Demography
Subject:
Malthusianism
Copyright:
1996
Publication Date:
September 1996
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
544
Dimensions:
9.22x6.34x1.17 in. 1.67 lbs.
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