Consumption, population, and sustainability : perspectives from science and religion /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Chapman, Audrey R., Petersen, Rodney Lawrence, Smith-Moran, Barbara
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, [2000]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Science, religion, and the environment / Audrey R. Chapman
  • Perspectives on sustainability / Ian G. Barbour
  • Overview of scientific perspectives / Audrey R. Chapman
  • World population projections to 2150 / U.N. Population Division
  • Population growth and earth's human carrying capacity / Joel E. Cohen
  • Revisiting carrying capacity: area-based indicators of sustainability / William E. Rees
  • U.S. consumption and the environment / Michael Brower and Warren Leon
  • Overview of religious perspectives / Audrey R. Chapman
  • World religions and the 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development / United Nations
  • A Catholic perspective / David M. Byers
  • Foundations for a Jewish ethic regarding consumption / Michael Fox Smart
  • A Greek Orthodox perspective / Emmanuel Clapsis
  • An Islamic perspective / Abdul Cader Asmal and Mohammed Asmal
  • Toward the revival and reform of the subversive virtue: frugality / James A. Nash
  • Overview of perspectives on ethics and public policy / Audrey R. Chapman
  • Report of the 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development / United Nations
  • Consumption and well-being / David A. Crocker
  • Population, consumption, and eco-justice: a moral assessment of the 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development / James B. Martin-Schramm
  • The transition to a transition / Neva R. Goodwin
  • Christian responses to coercion in population regulation / Susan Power Bratton
  • To protect the whole of creation / Bruce Babbitt
  • Earth literacy for theology / Mary Evelyn Tucker
  • Envisioning equity in consumption, population, and sustainability / Rodney L. Petersen.