Additional Readings

Arizpe, Lourdes and Margarita Velásquez. 1994. "The Social Dimensions of Population." Pages 15-40 in Lourdes Arizpe, M. Priscilla Stone and David C. Major, eds. Population and the Environment: Rethinking the Debate. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Arizpe, Lourdes, M. Priscilla Stone and David C. Major, eds. 1994. Population and the Environment: Rethinking the Debate. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Arrow, Kenneth, et al. 1995. "Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Environment." Science. Vol. 268 (April 28) pages 520-21.

AtKisson, A. 1999. Beliving Cassandra: An Optimist Looks at a Pessimist's World. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishers. A highly readable revisiting of "Limits to Growth."

Bengtsson, Tommy and Christer Gunnarsson. 1994. "Population, Development, and Institutional Change: Summary and Analysis." Pages 1-23 in Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling and Hans Landberg, eds, Population, Economic Development, and the Environment. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bilsborrow, Richard and Martha Geores. 1994. "Population Change and Agricultural Intensification in Developing Countries." Pages 171-208 in Lourdes Arizpe, M. Priscilla Stone and David C. Major, eds. Population and the Environment: Rethinking the Debate. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Birdsall, Nancy. 1994. "Government, Population, and Poverty: A 'Win-Win' Tale." Pages 173-198 in Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling and Hans Landberg, eds, Population, Economic Development, and the Environment. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bledsoe, Caroline. 1994. "'Children are like young bamboo trees': Potentiality and Reproduction in Sub-Saharan Africa." Pages 105-138 in Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling and Hans Landberg, eds, Population, Economic Development, and the Environment. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bloom, David and Jeffrey Williamson. 1998. "Demographic Transitions and Economic Miracles in Emerging Asia." World Bank Economic Review. Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 419-456.

Bok, Sissela. 1994. "Population ethics: Expanding the moral space." Pages 15-26 in G. Sen, and L. Chen eds. Population policies reconsidered: Health, empowerment and rights. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Brown, L. R. and B. Halweil. 1999. "Where Death Rates Are Rising." Worldwatch Magazine 12(5): 20-29. In some places, the historic trend toward longer life has been abruptly reversed.

Brown, Lester, Gary Gardner and Brian Halweil. 1999. Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Problem. Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute.

Cohen, J.E. 1995. "Population Growth and Earth's Human Carrying Capacity." Science 269(5222): 341-346. A trenchant analysis of human choice and agency complicate simple ecological analysis of carrying capacity.

Daily, Gretchen C. and Paul R. Ehrlich, 1992. "Population, Sustainability, and Earth's Carrying Capacity." Bioscience (November 1992) pp. 761-771.

Dasgupta, Partha, Carl Folke, and Karl-Göran Mäler. 1994. "The Environmental Resource Base and Human Welfare." Pages 25-50 in Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling and Hans Landberg, eds, Population, Economic Development, and the Environment. New York: Oxford University Press.

Dasgupta, Partha S. 1995."Population, Poverty and the Local Environment." Scientific American (February 1995), pp. 40-45.

Diamond, Jared. 1997. "Paradises Lost." Discover 18(11): 69-78. A tragic but informative history of environmental impoverishment and extinction of Polynesian settlements on Pitcarin and Henderson Islands in the South Pacific.

Easterlin, Richard. 1996. "The Next Century in Historical Perspective." Pages 145-154 in Growth triumphant: the twenty-first century in historical perspective. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ehrlich, Paul R. 2000. Human Nature: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect. Covelo, CA: Island Press. A refutation to theories of genetic determinism of human behavior.

Engelman, Robert. 1998. "Human Population Prospects." Pages 47-78 in Nicholas Polunin, ed. Population and Global Security. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Erickson, Brad. 1999 "Counterpoint: Why Restricting Immigration Won't Save One Tree." Inner Voice 9(6): 21-22. A social justice view that rising consumption rates are a greater environmental threat than immigration.

Grant, Lindsey. 1997. "Point: Want to Help the Environment? First Control Immigration." Inner Voice 9(6): 19-20. A Malthusian claim that we ought to close our borders to immigrants.

Harrison, Paul and Fred Pierce. American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2000. Atlas of Population and Environment (2000). University of California Press.

Hartmann, Betsy. 1999. "Population, Environment, and Security: A New Trinity." In Jael Silliman and Ynestra King, Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment, and Development. Cambridge: South End Press, 1999, pp. 1-23.

Harvey, David. 1974. "Population, resources, and the ideology of science." Economic Geography 50: 256-277. A Marxian view of the population question.

Harvey, Philip D. 1999. Let Every Child Be Wanted: How social Marketing Is Revolutionizing Contraceptive Use Around the World. New York: Greenwood Publishing. A hopeful look at family planning practices and policies.

Homer-Dixon, Thomas F. 1999. Environment, Scarcity, and Violence. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. A Malthusian warning about competition for scarce resources.

Johnson, D. Gale. March 2000. "Population, Food, and Knowledge." American Economic Review 90(1): 1-14. Will there be enough food for everyone?

Lassonde, Louise. 1997. Coping with Population Challenges. London: Earthscan. Examines the Programme of Action adopted at the U.N. Conference in Cairo in light of demographic challenges and ideological conflicts.

Lindahl-Kiessling, Kerstin and Hans Landberg, eds. 1994. Population, Economic Development, and the Environment. New York: Oxford University Press. A good overview of population and development.

Lutz, Wolfgang, et al. 2001. "The end of world population growth." Nature 412: 543-545. A statistical prediction of human population growth.

McCay, Bonnie J. and Svein Jentoft. 1998. "Market or Community Failure? Critical Perspectives on Common Property Research." Human Organization. Vol. 57, No. 1, pages 21-29.

McKibben, Bill. 1999. "Taking the Pulse of the Planet." Audubon 101(6): 104-111. An interview with Worldwatch President Lester R. Brown.

McKibben, Bill 1999. Maybe One: A Case for Smaller Families. Plume Books. Explores the consequences for children and their families of an ecologically based choice to have just one child.

Menza, Valeria and John R. Lupien. 1998. "World Population and Nutritional Well-being." Pages 157-171 in Nicholas Polunin, ed. Population and Global Security. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Mitchell, J. D. 1998. "Before the Next Doubling." Worldwatch Magazine. January/February, 1998. How large will the human population be?

Mitchell, Jennifer D. 1998. "Breaking Population Momentum." World Watch 11(1): 20-27. Our window of opportunity to prevent another doubling is down to less than ten years.

Murphy, Raymond. 1994. "Environmental Classes and Environmental Conflict." Pages 163 - 173 in Rationality and Nature: A Sociological Inquiry into a Changing Relationship. Boulder, CO: Westview.

Northwestern Environment Watch. 1977. Slowing Population Growth. Seattle, WA: Northwestern Environment Watch. Policy options for slowing population growth in the Pacific Northwest.

Pimentel, David, et al. 1999. "Will Limits of the Earth's Resources Control Human Numbers?" Environment, Development and Sustainability. Vol. 1, pages 19-39.

Polunin, Nicholas, ed. 1998. Population and Global Security. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Potts, Malcolm. 2000. "The Unmet Need for Family Planning." Scientific American 282(1): 88-93. Women and men in many countries still lack adequate access to contraceptives.

Roberts, Bryan. 1994. "Urbanization and the Environment in Developing Countries: Latin America in Comparative Perspective." Pages 303-338 in Lourdes Arizpe, M. Priscilla Stone and David C. Major, eds. Population and the Environment: Rethinking the Debate. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Ross, Eric B. 1998. "Introduction." Pages 1-7 in The Malthus factor: poverty, politics and population in capitalist development. London & New York: Zed Books.

Ruttan, Vernon W. 1999. The Transition to Agricultural Sustainability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA. Vol. 96, pages 5960-5967.

Sen, Amaryta. 1994. "Population and reasoned agency: Food, fertility, and economic development." Pages 51-78 in Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling and Hans Landberg, eds, Population, Economic Development, and the Environment. New York: Oxford University Press.

Sen, Gita. 1994. "Women, Poverty and Population: Issues for the Concerned Environmentalist." Pages 67-86 in Lourdes Arizpe, M. Priscilla Stone and David C. Major, eds. Population and the Environment: Rethinking the Debate. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Senanayake, Pramilla. 1998. "Women and the Family Planning Imperative." Pages 185-204 in Nicholas Polunin, ed. Population and Global Security. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Steingraber, Sandra. 2001. Having Faith. Perseus Pub. An environmentalists thinks about adding a child to the world.

Tierney, John. 1990. "Betting the planet". New York Times Magazine, 12/2/90. Describes the debate between Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich on the future of the world.

Vitousek, P., H. A. Mooney, J. Lubchenco, and J. Melillo. 1997. "Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems." Science 277 (25 July): 494-499. How much of the world's net primary productivity do we dominate?

Wackernagel, Mathis et.al, 2002. "Tracking the Ecological Overshoot of the Human Economy," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (July 9, 2002). A calculation of our ecological footprint.

World Resources Institute. 2000. World Resources 2000-2001. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. Full summary, available online at www.wri.org/wr2000/pdf.html. An excellent source of data on environment and resources.