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Living within Limits [[electronic resource] ] : Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos
| Living within Limits [[electronic resource] ] : Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos |
| Autore | Hardin Garrett |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (350 p.) |
| Disciplina |
304.6/66
363.91 |
| Soggetto topico |
Birth control
Population Sociology & Social History Family & Marriage Social Sciences |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-44202-6
0-19-802403-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; 1. The Challenge of Limits; 2. Overpopulation: Escape to the Stars?; 3. Uneasy Litter Mates: Population and Progress; 4. Population Theory: Academia's Stepchild; 5. Default Status: Making Sense of the World; 6. The Ambivalent Triumph of Optimism; 7. Cowboy Economics versus Spaceship Ecology; 8. Growth: Real and Spurious; 9. Exponential Growth of Populations; 10. What Malthus Missed; 11. The Demostat; 12. Generating the Future; 13. Limits: A Constrained View; 14. From Jevons's Coal to Hubbert's Pimple; 15. Nuclear Power: A Nonsolution; 16. Trying to Escape Malthus
17. The Benign Demographic Transition18. Making Room for Human Will; 19. Major Default Positions of Human Biology; 20. Carrying Capacity; 21. The Global Pillage: Consequences of Unmanaged Commons; 22. Discriminating Altruisms; 23. The Double C-Double P Game; 24. Birth Control versus Population Control; 25. Population Control: Natural versus Human; 26. The Necessity of Immigration Control; 27. Recapitulation and a Look Ahead; Notes and References; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454644903321 |
Hardin Garrett
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Living within Limits [[electronic resource] ] : Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos
| Living within Limits [[electronic resource] ] : Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos |
| Autore | Hardin Garrett |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (350 p.) |
| Disciplina |
304.6/66
363.91 |
| Soggetto topico |
Birth control
Population Sociology & Social History Family & Marriage Social Sciences |
| ISBN |
1-280-44202-6
0-19-802403-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; 1. The Challenge of Limits; 2. Overpopulation: Escape to the Stars?; 3. Uneasy Litter Mates: Population and Progress; 4. Population Theory: Academia's Stepchild; 5. Default Status: Making Sense of the World; 6. The Ambivalent Triumph of Optimism; 7. Cowboy Economics versus Spaceship Ecology; 8. Growth: Real and Spurious; 9. Exponential Growth of Populations; 10. What Malthus Missed; 11. The Demostat; 12. Generating the Future; 13. Limits: A Constrained View; 14. From Jevons's Coal to Hubbert's Pimple; 15. Nuclear Power: A Nonsolution; 16. Trying to Escape Malthus
17. The Benign Demographic Transition18. Making Room for Human Will; 19. Major Default Positions of Human Biology; 20. Carrying Capacity; 21. The Global Pillage: Consequences of Unmanaged Commons; 22. Discriminating Altruisms; 23. The Double C-Double P Game; 24. Birth Control versus Population Control; 25. Population Control: Natural versus Human; 26. The Necessity of Immigration Control; 27. Recapitulation and a Look Ahead; Notes and References; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782764603321 |
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Hardin Garrett
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||
| New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||