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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Simon, Julian Lincoln, 1932-1998
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1998, 1996.
Edición:Rev. ed. /
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Wirtschaftspolitik.
Umweltschutz.
Nutzung.
Natürliche Ressourcen.
Bevölkerungswachstum.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Population.
Natural resources.
Economic policy.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. TOWARD OUR BEAUTIFUL RESOURCE FUTURE: The amazing theory of raw-material scarcity
  • Why are material-technical resource forecasts so often wrong?
  • Can the supply of natural resources, especially energy, really be infinite? Yes!
  • The grand theory
  • Famine 1995? or 2025? or 1975?
  • What are the limits on food production?
  • The worldwide food situation now: shortage crises, glut crises, and government
  • Are we losing ground?
  • Two bogeymen: urban sprawl and soil erosion
  • Water, wood, wetlands--and what next?
  • When will we run out of oil? Never!
  • Today's energy issues
  • Nuclear power: tomorrow's greatest energy opportunity
  • A dying planet? how the media have scared the public
  • The peculiar theory of pollution
  • Whither the history of pollution?
  • Pollution today: specific trends & issues
  • Bad environmental and resource scares
  • Will our consumer wastes bury us?
  • Should we conserve resources for others' sakes? What kinds of resources need conservation?
  • Coercive recycling, forced conservation, and free-market alternatives.
  • II. POPULATION GROWTH'S EFFECT UPON OUR RESOURCES AND LIVING STANDARDS: Standing room only? the demographic facts
  • What will future population growth be?
  • Do humans breed like flies? or like Norwegian rats?
  • Population growth and the stock of capital
  • Population's effects on technology and productivity
  • Economies of scope and education
  • Population growth, natural resources, and future generations
  • Population growth and land
  • Are people an environmental pollution?
  • Are humans causing species holocaust?
  • A greater population does not damage health, or psychological and social well-being
  • The big economic picture: population growth and living standards in MDCs
  • LDCs
  • III. BEYOND THE DATA: How the comparisons people make affect their beliefs about whether things are getting better or worse
  • The rhetoric of population control: does the end justify the means?
  • The reasoning behind the rhetoric
  • Ultimately, what are your values?
  • The key values.

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