Bibliography on world
populations, projections, and effects
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AGHE Symposia on populations and aging
2000 - Myrtle Beach
2001 - San Jose
URLs on world population
World
Population Profile: 1998,
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/wp98.html
US Bureau of the Census, Report/98, US Government
Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.
Population
data, graphs, tables, projections, methodologies, and relevance.
US
Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/
Population data and relevance
World Population Trends: United Nations Population
http://www.undp.org/popin/wdtrends/wdtrends.htm
UN data on populations and relevance
Population
Aging: 1999
http://www.undp.org/popin/wdtrends/a99/a99note.htm
UN data on the Earth’s aging populations
World
Resources Institute
http://www.wri.org/
Population data and relevance
8.
Population and Human Development: Population Trends
http://www.wri.org/wri/wr-96-97/hd_txt2.html
Population data and relevance
8. Population And Human Development: Emerging And
Reemerging Infectious Diseases
http://www.wri.org/wri/wr-96-97/hd_txt5.html
Data about potentially widespread serious diseases
Population
Reference Bureau
http://www.prb.org/
Source of many data on populations
2000 World Population Data Sheet
http://www.prb.org/pubs/wpds2000/
Links to summary data on global and regional populations including many
parameters
(e.g., life expectancies)
2000
World Population Data Sheet
http://www.prb.org/pubs/wpds2000/wpds2000_Population2000-PopulationProjected.html
What
Price?
http://www.pbs.org/kqed/population_bomb/danger/price.html
Article on consequences of high and growing human populations.
Reflections
On Sustainability, Population Growth And The Environment
http://fizziker.com/AlBartlett/population.htm
by Albert A.
Bartlett
An
essay about the science and logic of sustainable populations, including myths,
politics,
and economics of such populations.
Union Of Concerned Scientists
http://www.ucsusa.org/
Overpopulation
http://www.overpopulation.org/
A site about overpopulation with links to “everything” on the
subject.
Sustainability, Carrying Capacity, and Overconsumption
http://www.overpopulation.org/solutions.html
- links to many articles about overpopulation
- includes
synopsis of each article linked
Population Implosion, Graying of the Population, Population Reduction,
and Negative
Population Growth
http://www.overpopulation.org/older.html
Data on elderly populations
Factoids & Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.overpopulation.org/faq.html
Concise data on world populations
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Articles
on effects of world population
_____________, “Feeding
the World's Population”, (Brief Article), BioScience, May, 2000.
Bretzke, James T., “Legislating Life”, America,
May 29, 1999.
Hollingsworth, William G., “Y6B: The
Real Millennial Threat. (effects of overpopulation)”, (Brief Article), Sierra,
Sept, 1999.
Hopper, W. David, “Introduction: The Future”,
Social Research, Spring, 1999.
Leonard, Mark, “A world without children. populations are decreasing in
developed countries, leading to speculation that underpopulation, rather than
overpopulation, may be a concern)”, New Statesman, Oct 11, 1999.
Mcmichael, Anthony J.,
“Globalization and the sustainability of human health: an ecological
perspective” BioScience, March,
1999.
Moore, Stephen, “Body Count: Population and its enemies. the
population-control movement is gaining steam)”, National Review, Oct 25, 1999.
Stiefel, Chana, “Population puzzle: is the world big enough? (sustaining
population growth)”, Science World, April 13, 1998.
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