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Are our descendants doomed? : Technological change and population growth / Edited by Harrison Brown and Edward Hutchings, Jr.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Viking Press, [1972]Description: vi, 377 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0670003417
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.9
Contents:
Introduction: The growth and distribution of human population / Harrison Brown -- The changing balance of births and deaths / Kingsley Davis -- The consequences of rapid population growth / Roger Revelle -- Unemployment and underemployment / Bruce F. Johnston -- Population, GNP, and the environment / Alan R. Sweezy -- Birth control after 1984: a realistic appraisal of future contraceptive developments / Carl Djerassi -- Rapid population growth and the social structure / Donald F. Heisel -- The present state of family-planning programs / Bernard Berelson -- Population control in India / John P. Lewis -- Changing public attitudes toward population growth in Japan / Minoru Muramatsu -- The United Nations system and population problems / Charles F. Gallagher -- Population planning and belief systems: the Catholic Church in Latin America / Thomas G. Sanders -- Belief systems and family planning in peasant societies / Laila Shukry El-Hamamsy -- Some conclusions / Harrison Brown.
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Proceedings of a conference held at the California Institute of Technology.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: The growth and distribution of human population / Harrison Brown -- The changing balance of births and deaths / Kingsley Davis -- The consequences of rapid population growth / Roger Revelle -- Unemployment and underemployment / Bruce F. Johnston -- Population, GNP, and the environment / Alan R. Sweezy -- Birth control after 1984: a realistic appraisal of future contraceptive developments / Carl Djerassi -- Rapid population growth and the social structure / Donald F. Heisel -- The present state of family-planning programs / Bernard Berelson -- Population control in India / John P. Lewis -- Changing public attitudes toward population growth in Japan / Minoru Muramatsu -- The United Nations system and population problems / Charles F. Gallagher -- Population planning and belief systems: the Catholic Church in Latin America / Thomas G. Sanders -- Belief systems and family planning in peasant societies / Laila Shukry El-Hamamsy -- Some conclusions / Harrison Brown.

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