Population, Environment and the Challenge of Development

A collection of 22 thought-provoking papers contributed by eminent scholars from various countries including Austria, Argentina, Canada, Greece, Malaysia, Poland, USA and India, this book deals with the contemporary yet burning issues of population, environment and development, which require a delicate and judicious balance in man’s quest for development. Often this is easier said that done with rising human numbers, rising affluence levels and skewed consumption patterns made all the more complex by policies that tend to equate development with growth and growth sans sustainability and concern of distribution. This is the broad canvas upon which multi-disciplinary studies from various countries and regions of the world have been brought together in a collection that should be handy for scholars, professionals and activists besides policy planners and administrators alike.