Population Politics: The Choices That Shape Our Future

Virginia D. Abernethy, Ph.D. (Author); Garrett Hardin, Ph.D. (With A Foreword by)

ISBN 10: 0306444615 / ISBN 13: 9780306444616

Edité par Insight Books/ Plenum Press/ A Division of Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York & London, 1993

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• Titre: Population Politics: The Choices That Shape Our Future
• Éditeur: Insight Books/ Plenum Press/ A Division of Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York & London
• Date de parution: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0306444615
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780306444616
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Like New
• État de la jaquette: Like New
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  • Current Affairs, Current Events, Politics
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The United Nations has stated that the 1990s are the last possible decade for regulating fertility rates so that populations do not grow beyond the earth's capacity to sustain human life. Demographic experts are confounded by the persistence of high fertility in light of a number of circumstances that were expected to cause a decline, such as international dissemination of technical assistance and capital; improved health care conditions to lower the risk of infant mortality; increased opportunities to develop literacy in men and women; the democratization of governments; and several decades of liberal immigration and refugee policies favoring third-world nations. Population Politics brilliantly dissects the paradigm responsible for the counterproductive efforts of nations and international agencies. Virginia D. Abernethy, Ph. D. , a renowned anthropologist, shows why support offered in the name of a "demographic transition" has been misdirected; why policies which do not encourage caution and restraint hamper the shift to lower fertility. Ireland, Indonesia, Cuba, China, Turkey, and Egypt are a few of the countries to which Dr. Abernethy looks, showing how economic, sociocultural, and agricultural factors have been both a cause of population growth and a way-of attempting to stabilize population size. The author stresses that motivation is the key to birth control and, using historical and cross-cultural data, hypothesizes that perception of limited resources is the chief stimulus. Renewed interest in limiting family size is seen in third-world countries, such as Sudan and Burma, where traditional patterns of delaying first births and increasing the interval between having one child and the next are reviving. Dr Abernethy proceeds with a fascinating critical perspective on population growth in the United States, relating it to twentieth-century industrialization, urbanization, fluctuations in the economy, and an "open door" immigration policy. All sectors of soc