Under the Banyan Tree: A Population Scientist's Odyssey

by Sheldon J. Segal

Human population growth has been a topic of speculation and spirited debate since the English economist Thomas Malthus predicted that population will increase faster than the food supply, with catastrophic results. Today, even as fertility rates decline on a global scale, relentless increases in population and other population-driven factors threaten not only the food supply, but also the stability of entire regions of the world. No single individual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195154568
• ISBN13: 9780195154566
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.7"