A Concise History of World Population by Bacci, Massimo Livi -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Preface Acknowledgment 1 The Space and Strategy of Demographic Growth

1.1 Humans and Animals 1.2 Divide and Multiply 1.3 Jacopo Bichi and Domenica Del Buono, Jean Guyon, and Mathurine Robin 1.4 Reproduction and Survival 1.5 The Space of Growth 1.6 Environmental Constraints 1.7 A Few Figures Further Reading

2 Demographic Growth

3 Land, Labor, and Population

3.1 Diminishing Returns and Demographic Growth 3.2 Historical Confirmations 3.3 Demographic Pressure and Economic Development 3.4 More on Demographic Pressure and Development: Examples from the Stone Age to the Present Day 3.5 Space, Land, and Development 3.6 Population Size and Prosperity 3.7 Increasing or Decreasing Returns? Further Reading

4 Toward Order and Efficiency

5 The Populations of Poor Countries

5.1 An Extraordinary Phase 5.2 The Conditions of Survival 5.3 A Brief Geography of Fertility 5.4 The Conditions and Prospects for Fertility Decline and Demographic Policy 5.5 India and China 5.6 Fertilia and Sterilia 5.7 Explaining a Paradox Further Reading

6 The Future

6.1 Population and Self‐Regulation 6.2 The Numbers of the Future 6.3 The North–South Divide and International Migration 6.4 On Sustainability of Extended Survival 6.5 The Moving Limits 6.6 Non‐Renewable Resources and the Parable of Pauperia and Tycoonia 6.7 Food for All? 6.8 Space and Environment in a Smaller Planet 6.9 Calculations and Values

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