Environment, Population and Development

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-Famine in Ethiopia versus food mountains in the EC and USA

 -Zero population growth in northern Europe versus population explosion in Africa and Asia

 -Depopulation of the cities of the developed world versus rapid urbanisation in Asia and Latin America.

 These are some of the contradictions underlying this book's analysis of environmental issues with reference to population growth and economic and technological development. Focusing first on agriculture and then on urbanisation, it shows that major environmental issues from desertification and soil erosion to chemical pollution and urban squalor result from the form of development which has dominated over the last century and can only be solved by changing to more sustainable forms of development.

 Like the other books in the series, Environment, Population and Development is both approachable and authoritative, and has been prepared by a team of specialists in the light of the latest knowledge. It is not only interdisciplinary but integrated, stressing the need to relate scientific knowledge, technical possibilities and political and economic decision-making in the light of an environmentalist philosophy.

 There are numerous diagrams and photographs to illustrate and clarify the text, as well as questions and activities to help the reader assimilate the significant points. This book will therefore appeal to anyone with an interest in environmental issues, as well as sixth-formers and undergraduates studying interdisciplinary environmental studies, geography, ecology, history or anthropology.

 Philip Sarre is Senior Lecturer in Geography in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University.ISBN:9780340533604