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	Título: A Pivotal Moment Population, Justice, And The Environmental Challenge
	Autor: Robert Engelman	Precio: $420.00
	Editorial: Island Press	Año: 2010
	Tema: Medio Ambiente, Demografía, Poblacion	Edición: 1ª
	Sinopsis	ISBN: 9781597266628
	Through a series of essays by leading demographers, environmentalists and reproductive health advocates, A Pivotal Moment offers a new perspective on the complex connection between population dynamics and environmental quality. It presents the latest research on the relationship between population growth and climate change, ecosystem health and other environmental issues. It surveys the new demographic landscape_in which population growth rates have fallen, but human numbers continue to increase. It looks back at the lessons learned from half a century of population policy_and forward to propose twenty-first century population policies that are sustainable and just. A Pivotal Moment puts forth the concept of "population justice," which is inspired by reproductive justice and environmental justice movements. Population justice holds that inequality is a root cause of both rapid population growth and environmental degradation. As the authors in this volume explain, to slow population growth and build a sustainable future, women and men need access to voluntary family planning and other reproductive health services. They need education and employment opportunities, especially for women. Population justice means tackling the deep inequities_both gender and economic_that are associated with rapid population growth and unsustainable resource consumption. Where family planning is available, where couples are confident their children will survive, where girls go to school, where young men and women have economic opportunity_there couples will have healthier and smaller families. Biographies Editor Laurie Mazur is an independent writer and consultant to nonprofit organizations. She is the editor of Beyond the Numbers: A Reader on Population, Consumption, and the Environment (Island Press, 1994) and co-author of Marketing Madness: A Survival Guide for a Consumer Society (Westview, 1995). Table Of Contents Foreword Introduction PART I. THE NUMBERS 1. Human Population Grows Up 2. The Largest Generation Comes of Age 3. People on the Move: Population, Migration, and the Environment 4. The Urban Millennium PART II. THE IMPACT 5. Climate Change and Population Growth 6. Fair Weather, Lasting World 7. Adapting to Climate Change: The Role of Reproductive Health 8. Population Growth, Ecosystem Services, and Human Well-Being 9. Numbers Matter: Human Population as a Dynamic Factor in Environmental Degradation 10. Environmental Justice in an Urbanizing World 11. The New Economics of Population Change 12. Food: Will There Be Enough? 13. Understanding the Global Food Crisis: Malthusian Nightmare or Free-Trade Fiasco? 14. How Much Is Left? An Overview of the Water Crisis 15. The Biggest Footprint: Population and Consumption in the United States 16. Population Growth, Reproductive Health, and the Future of Africa 17. Cancún: Paradise Lost 18. The Flip Side: How the Environment Impacts Our Reproductive Health PART III. LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD 19. Cairo: The Unfinished Revolution 20. The New Population Challenge 21. Rethinking U.S. Population Policy 22. Going to Extremes: Population Politics and Reproductive Rights in Peru 23. Mobilizing Constituencies to Achieve Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for All 24. Women at the Center 25. Taking Stock: Linking Population, Health, and the Environment 26. From Crisis to Sustainability PART IV. THOUGHTS FOR THE JOURNEY 27. Reproductive Rights Are Human Rights 28. Over-Breeders and the Population Bomb: The Reemergence of Nativism and Population Control in Anti-Immigration Policies 29. Christian Perspectives on Population Issues 30. Ecomorality: Toward an Ethic of Sustainability 31. Reconciling Differences: Population, Reproductive Rights, and the Environment Afterword: Work for Justice! Index Contributors

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