A pivotal moment : population, justice, and the environmental challenge /
edited by Laurie Mazur.
- Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 2010.
- xvii, 413 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Introduction / Human population grows up / The largest generation comes of age / People on the move : population, migration, and the environment / The urban millennium / Climate change and population growth / Fair weather, lasting world / Adapting to climate change : the role of reproductive health / Population growth, ecosystem services, and human well-being / Numbers matter : human population as a dynamic factor in environmental degradation / Environmental justice in an urbanizing world / The new economics of population change / Food : will there be enough? / Understanding the global food crisis : Malthusian nightmare or free-trade fiasco? / How much is left? an overview of the water crisis / The biggest footprint : population and consumption in the United States / Population growth, reproductive health, and the future of Africa / Cancún : paradise lost / The flip side : how the environment impacts our reproductive health / Cairo : the unfinished revolution / The new population challenge / Rethinking U.S. population policy / Going to extremes : population politics and reproductive rights in Peru / Mobilizing constituencies : achieving sexual reproductive health and rights for all / Women at the center / Taking stock : linking population, health, and the environment / From crisis to sustainability / Reproductive rights are human rights / Over-breeding and the population bomb : the reemergence of nativism and population control in anti-immigration policies / Christian perspectives on population issues / Ecomorality : toward an ethic of sustainability / Reconciling differences : population, reproductive rights, and the environment / Afterword : work for justice? / Timothy E. Wirth -- Laurie Mazur -- Joel E. Cohen -- Martha Farnsworth Riche -- Susan Gibbs -- United Nations Population Fund -- Brian C. O'Neill -- Robert Engelman -- Malea Hoepf Young ... [et al.] -- Lynne Gaffikin -- John Harte -- Gordon McGranahan -- Rachel Nugent -- Lester R. Brown -- Walden Bello -- Eleanor Sterling and Erin Vintinner -- Vicky Markham -- Fred T. Sai -- Adriana Varillas -- Charlotte Brody and Julia Varshavsky -- Carmen Barroso and Steven W. Sinding -- Judith Bruce and John Bongaarts -- Suzanne Petroni -- Susana Chávez Alvarado with Jacqueline Nolley Echegaray -- Adrienne Germain -- Ellen Chesler -- Roger-Mark De Souza -- James Gustave Speth -- Jacqueline Nolley Echegaray and Shira Saperstein -- Priscilla Huang -- James B. Martin-Schramm -- Ursula Goodenough -- Frances Kissling -- Laurie Mazur and Shira Saperstein.
9781597266611
Population--Environmental aspects. Social justice. Sustainable development.