| How Many People Can the Earth Support Revised Edition Contributor(s): Cohen, Joel E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393314952 ISBN-13: 9780393314953 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $30.88 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1996 Annotation: /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 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Demography - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) |
| Dewey: 304.61 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Lexile Measure: 1540 |
| Physical Information: 1.17" H x 6.34" W x 9.22" (1.67 lbs) 544 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cohen, Joel E.: - Joel E. Cohen is head of the Laboratory of Populations at the Rockefeller University. He lives in New York City. |