Miguel A. Santos

Managing Planet Earth

Perspectives on Population, Ecology, and the Law

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Society cannot increase beyond its ability to acquire natural resources or to dispose safely of pollutants. One need not be an ecologist or environmental scientist to understand the dangers implicit in an uncontrolled degradation of the environment. Calculating how many people each individual nation should have and determining the means by which politically various populations will be controlled calls for difficult decisions. This book provides a concrete, easily understood, and realistic analysis of the scientific and legal dimensions of environmental stability. Miguel A. Santos outlines the current international ecological crises and defines them as the most serious threat to international world order and ecological stability. The book is divided into five sections beginning with an examination of the ecological characteristics of human population and a discussion of population policies in developing and developed nations. This section is followed by the construction of an analytic framework for the interaction of society with the environment. Further chapters provide an overview of natural resources and pollution and the criteria for determining the earth's carrying capacity for humans. The final section considers the problems and prospects of international law and environmental protection. Although written for ecologists, environmental scientists, demographers, political scientists, economists, and lawyers, this book is not limited to them. Anyone interested in the relationship between the environment and society will find this book instructive and provocative.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 377g
• ISBN-13: 9780897892162
• ISBN-10: 089789216X
• Artikelnr.: 22139186

Autorenporträt

MIGUEL A. SANTOS is Professor of Ecology and Environmental Science at Baruch College-New York, where he is the coordinator of environmental studies. Since 1975 he has taught a wide variety of courses, focusing especially on ecology, environmental science, and law. He is the author of Managing Planet Earth (Bergin & Garvey, 1990) and six other books, plus many publications in scientific and legal journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Human Population and Carrying Capacity Natural Resources,
Pollution, and Carrying Capacity Criteria for Determining Earth's Carrying
Capacity World Order and Environmental Stability Problems and Prospects
Glossary Bibliography Names Index Subject Index