Population, environment, and development

Publication Year: 1997

Author(s): Rajendra K Pachauri, Lubina F. Qureshy (eds.)

Abstract:

This book includes a collection of papers from eminent scholars in the field who attended the TERI conference, and reflects the diverse nature of the issue. It also includes discussion and debate on environmental subjects such as water scarcity, deforestation, biodiversity, and global warming, and social issues examining consumption patterns, energy policy, and migration. This compilation succinctly highlights the need for concerted efforts at all levels — local, national and global — to deal effectively with the environmental problems that face our planet. It also reinforces the need to take a comprehensive view of the economic development process, as a whole, and consumption levels, in particular, when evaluating the impacts of population change:

Publisher/Organisation: TERI

URL: http://library.teri.res.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=10253&query_...