Autore |
Pearce Fred
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Boston, : Beacon Press, c2010
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Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (309 p.)
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Disciplina |
304.601/12
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Soggetto topico |
Population - Social aspects
Population forecasting
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ISBN |
0-8070-9770-5
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- The Coming Population Crash -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: Malthusian Nightmares -- Chapter 1: A Dark and Terrible Genius -- Chapter 2: The Road to Skibbereen -- Chapter 3: Saving the White Man -- Part Two: Rise of the Population Controller -- Chapter 4: An Ornithologist Speaks -- Chapter 5: The Contraceptive Cavalry -- Chapter 6: Three Wise Men -- Chapter 7: Six Dollars a Snip -- Chapter 8: Green Revolution -- Chapter 9: One Child -- Part Three: Implosion -- Chapter 10: Small Towns in Germany -- Chapter 11: Winter in Europe -- Chapter 12: Russian Roulette -- Part Four: The Reproductive Revolution -- Chapter 13: Sisters -- Chapter 14: Sex and the City -- Chapter 15: Singapore Sling -- Chapter 16: Missing Girls -- Chapter 17: Where Men Still Rule -- Part Five: Migrants -- Chapter 18: Waving or Drowning? -- Chapter 19: Migrant Myths -- Chapter 20: Footloose in Asia -- Chapter 21: God's Crucible -- Part Six: Reaching The Limits -- Chapter 22: The Tigers and the Bulge -- Chapter 23: Footprints on a Finite Planet -- Chapter 24: Feeding the World -- Chapter 25: Slumdogs Arise -- Part Seven: Older, Wiser, Greener -- Chapter 26: The Age of the Old -- Chapter 27: Silver Lining -- Chapter 28: Peak Population and Beyond -- Notes on Sources -- Index.
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Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814324203321 |