World Population and the United Nations: Challenge and Response

by Stanley P. Johnson

First published in 1987, this book is about the challenge posed by the unprecedented growth of the world's population and the response that has been made to that challenge by the United Nations and its system of agencies. It focuses in particular on the creation, in 1969, of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) as the principal instrument for the United Nations' population programmes and on the work undertaken by the United Nations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521311047
• ISBN13: 9780521311045
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"