From Malthus to the Club of Rome and Back
From Malthus to the Club of Rome and Back

Author: Paul Neurath

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 131548336X

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This collection of articles on population growth spans 20 years of the author's thinking and research on a wide range of issues. The book opens with a presentation of the early history of demography before Thomas Malthus wrote his essay on the principles of population (1798) that marked the beginnings of modern demography as a science. The author follows up with a chapter on the estimates made at various times in the past hundred years about the maximum number of people who could live on earth. Four papers deal with the debates about global models of population growth and the limits to growth. Sharp swings in population policy in China from the Communist Revolution under Mao in 1949 to the one child-per-family rule in 1979 are also considered. Another chapter compares population policy in Japan, China and India. A chapter is devoted to the role of oil and the soaring price of this basic input into agriculture as a constraint on food production and, as a result, on population growth. A closing chapter considers the great migrations of the 19th and 20th centuries, including the transatlantic and transpacific movements, the mass migrations after World Wars I and II, and those of recent decades. This book will interest scholars and students in economics and other social sciences dealing with the issues of demography, population growth, and economic development.

From Malthus to the Club of Rome and Back
From Malthus to the Club of Rome and Back

Author: Paul Neurath

Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9781563244070

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A collection of papers written by the author over the course of a decade and a half covering issues of population. Some topics include: demographics before Malthus; the "limits of growth" debate; contradiction within the Bariloche Model; the price and availability of oil and the food situation of the third world; population policies in Japan, China and India; and the great migrations of the 19th and 20th centuries. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Limits to Growth
The Limits to Growth

Author: Donella H. Meadows

Publisher: Universe Pub

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780876632222

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Examines the factors which limit human economic and population growth and outlines the steps necessary for achieving a balance between population and production. Bibliogs

From Malthus to the Club of Rome and Back
From Malthus to the Club of Rome and Back

Author: Paul Neurath

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 9781315483375

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"This collection of articles on population growth spans 20 years of the author's thinking and research on a wide range of issues. The book opens with a presentation of the early history of demography before Thomas Malthus wrote his essay on the principles of population (1798) that marked the beginnings of modern demography as a science. The author follows up with a chapter on the estimates made at various times in the past hundred years about the maximum number of people who could live on earth. Four papers deal with the debates about global models of population growth and the limits to growth. Sharp swings in population policy in China from the Communist Revolution under Mao in 1949 to the one child-per-family rule in 1979 are also considered. Another chapter compares population policy in Japan, China and India. A chapter is devoted to the role of oil and the soaring price of this basic input into agriculture as a constraint on food production and, as a result, on population growth. A closing chapter considers the great migrations of the 19th and 20th centuries, including the transatlantic and transpacific movements, the mass migrations after World Wars I and II, and those of recent decades. This book will interest scholars and students in economics and other social sciences dealing with the issues of demography, population growth, and economic development."--Provided by publisher.

Hard Green
Hard Green

Author: Peter W Huber

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2008-08-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0786723432

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This book sets out the case for Hard Green, a conservative environmental agenda. Modern environmentalism, Peter Huber argues, destroys the environment. Captured as it has been by the Soft Green oligarchy of scientists, regulators, and lawyers, modern environmentalism does not conserve forests, oceans, lakes, and streams - it hastens their destruction. For all its scientific pretension, Soft Green is not green at all. Its effects are the opposites of green. This book lays out the alternative: a return to Yellowstone and the National Forests, the original environmentalism of Theodore Roosevelt and the conservation movement. Chapter by chapter, Hard Green takes on the big issues of environmental discourse from scarcity and pollution to efficiency and waste disposal. This is the Hard Green manifesto: Rediscover TAR. Reaffirm the conservationist ethic. Expose the Soft Green fallacy. Reverse the Soft Green agenda. Save the environment from the environmentalists.

There Are No Limits To Growth
There Are No Limits To Growth

Author: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Publisher: Executive Intelligence Review

Published: 2015-09-03

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13:

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It is not necessary to let millions of babies die or to murder your own aunt in order to save the trees! Lyndon LaRouche refutes the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth hoax and shows that human creativity expressed as continuous scientific and technological progress is the single prerequisite to both secure the future of humanity and to spread the principle of life through more and more of the Universe.

Malthus
Malthus

Author: Robert J. Mayhew

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2014-04-28

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0674728718

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Though Robert Malthus has never disappeared, he has been perpetually misunderstood. Robert Mayhew offers at once a major reassessment of Malthus’s ideas and an intellectual history of the origins of modern debates about demography, resources, and the environment, giving historical depth to our current planetary concerns.

The Limits to Growth Revisited
The Limits to Growth Revisited

Author: Ugo Bardi

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-05-27

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1441994165

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“The Limits to Growth” (Meadows, 1972) generated unprecedented controversy with its predictions of the eventual collapse of the world's economies. First hailed as a great advance in science, “The Limits to Growth” was subsequently rejected and demonized. However, with many national economies now at risk and global peak oil apparently a reality, the methods, scenarios, and predictions of “The Limits to Growth” are in great need of reappraisal. In The Limits to Growth Revisited, Ugo Bardi examines both the science and the polemics surrounding this work, and in particular the reactions of economists that marginalized its methods and conclusions for more than 30 years. “The Limits to Growth” was a milestone in attempts to model the future of our society, and it is vital today for both scientists and policy makers to understand its scientific basis, current relevance, and the social and political mechanisms that led to its rejection. Bardi also addresses the all-important question of whether the methods and approaches of “The Limits to Growth” can contribute to an understanding of what happened to the global economy in the Great Recession and where we are headed from there.

Spaceship Earth in the Environmental Age, 1960–1990
Spaceship Earth in the Environmental Age, 1960–1990

Author: Sabine Höhler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 131731753X

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The idea of the earth as a vessel in space came of age in an era shaped by space travel and the Cold War. Höhler’s study brings together technology, science and ecology to explore the way this latter-day ark was invoked by politicians, environmentalists, cultural historians, writers of science fiction and many others across three decades.