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Population, Environment and Development : A Global Challenge for the 21 Century

Edited by B.R.K. Sinha, New Century Pub, 2009, liv, 352 p, maps, figs, photographs, ISBN : 81-7708-217-3, $65.00 (Includes free airmail shipping)
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Population, Environment and Development : A Global Challenge for the 21 Century/edited by B.R.K. Sinha

Contents: Foreword/Ashok K. Dutt. Acknowledgements. I. Population dimensions: 1. Four traditions of population-poverty analysis: a way out of the Cul-De-Sac?/Nanda R. Shrestha, Norman Johnson and Wilbur I. Smith. 2. Greying of the Baby boomers in America: problems and prospects/Samuel Thompson. 3. Global aging and the rural health divide: an analysis of Physician geographic maldistribution/Christopher Cusack. 4. Impacts of undocumented aliens: a case study of the Organ Pipe National Monument/George M. Pomeroy and Richard McQown. 5. Changing geography of health and health care in Romania in the last decade of the 20 century/Liliana Dumitrache. 6. State of health of the Hungarian population in the period of transition/Eva Edit Kiss. 7. Education for surging population/Rameshwari Pandya. 8. Geographical analysis of health care in the Catchment area of Raul Targului River, Romania/Aurel Gheorghilas. II. Environmental aspects: 9. Cancer and the environment: a multi-level analysis/Ann Novogradec. 10. Health of coastal waters and estuaries of the United States of America/Shivaji Prasad. 11. Environmental status of water resources in Kumaon Himalaya/P.C. Tiwari and Bhagwati Joshi. 12. Urban environmental degradation: a study of air pollution in Ghaziabad City of India/Ram Bilas. 13. Physical and cultural landscape of Kosi Plain/Shio Muni Yadav. 14. Mitigation and management of technological hazards/Parbati Nandi. 15. Water harvesting: an urgent need/Bindu M. Bhatt and Raghuvanshi Jogender Singh. III. Developmental profile: 16. Urban Development Policy in South Korea/Nak-Hun Song. 17. Spatio-temporal analysis of urban human resources development in India/B.R.K. Sinha. 18. Patterns of urban living and quality of life in Bucharest during the Post-Communist Period/Mariana Mirela Nae. 19. Women participation in dairying: a case study of Rajasthan, India/M.K. Khandelwal. IV. Population-Environment-Development: Inter-linkages: 20. Status of Population, development and quality of life in Japan/Shii Okuno. 21. Environment, population and land use conflicts in the Coastal Savannah of Ghana/Michael O'Neal Campbell. 22. People, environment and development of Upper Ganga Basin Area, Uttarakhand, India/S.C. Mukhopadhyay. 23. Environment and demography: a hostile relation in Dholpur District of Rajasthan State of India/Rama Prasad and Rani Singh. Index.

"Human and natural resources are the basis of all economic activities. Economic activities in turn affect the quantity and quality of natural and environmental resources. Economic activities change the stock of natural resources. The change of stock calls for appropriate trade-off between the needs of present and future generations. Economic growth without environmental considerations can cause serious damage to the quality of life of the present and future generations.

The concept of sustainable development advocates economic progress in an environmentally responsible manner. Sustainable development attempts to strike a balance between the demands of the economic development and the need for protection of the environment. It seeks to combine the elements of economic inefficiency, intergenerational equity, social concerns and environmental protection.

This book is a collection of essays penned by an international group of distinguished scholars from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Hungary, Romania, South Korea, Japan and India. Contributions included in this book focus on interaction between population, environment and development in various areas of the world.

The book provides fresh thoughts and broad understanding of the current issues and challenges to be faced in the present century pertaining to complex inter-relationships between population, environment and development. It makes a significant departure from the existing pattern of literature available on the subject. 

This book brings together the ideas of scholars in the field of population, environment and development. Their respective contributions are socially relevant for the contemporary society. The book is useful for a cross section of readers including geographers, demographers, environmentalists, development economists, legislators and others interested in the dynamics of modern growth process." (jacket)

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