Man and his environment: food (Man and his environment series)

In response to one of our most pressing concerns, this series of brief, nontechnical books provide in-depth coverage of selected topics relating to man and his environment.

Brown, Lester Russell

Harper&Row

Thomas Malthus was probably the first to detect worldwide population pressure and to identify world population growth as a problem. When he published his essay on The Principle of Population in 1798, he defined the population problem primarily in terms of food supplies and the threat of famine. For almost 200 years men have perceived the population-food problem in these terms, asking "Can we produce enough food to feed anticipated human numbers?". In man's quest for more and more food to meet mounting needs in modern times, he has rapidly extended and intensified agricultural intervention in the earth's ecosystem. Food production has kept pace with population growth, but with disturbing ecological consequences. The relevant question is not longer "Can we produce enough food?" but "What are the environmental consequences of attempting to do so?"

By Bread Alone

Business & Money

Industries

Praeger Publishers

Lester R. Brown with Erik P. EckholmPublished for the Overseas Development CouncilPraeger University Series

By bread alone

Science & Math

Mathematics

Praeger

RUNNING ON EMPTY: THE FUTURE OF THE AUTOMOBILE IN AN OIL-SHORT WORLD

Politics & Social Sciences

Flavin, Christopher

Norman, Colin

Politics & Government

W.W.Norton

Report assessing society's ability to sustain itself without hurting the next generation

State of the World 1993: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society (State of the World (Hardcover))

Reference

W.W.Norton&Company

In the Human Interest: A Strategy to Stabilize World Population

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

In an analysis of the principal biological systems on which humanity depends, the author clearly shows that the demands at current levels of population and per capita consumption often exceed the long-term carrying capacity

The Twenty-Ninth Day: Accommodating Human Needs and Numbers to the Earth's Resources

Social Sciences

State of the World, 1991: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society

Postel, Sandra

Starke, Linda

Economics

This annual volume from Brown and the Worldwatch Institute concisely presents the good news, the bad news, and some surprises about the health of our planet and civilization. Worldwatch's award-winning researchers have culled information from around the globe to come up with key indicators that best track change in the environmental, economic, and social health of the world. Graphs &amp; tables.

Vital Signs 1997 (Vital Signs: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future (Paperback))

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