Building the population bomb /
'Building the Population Bomb' carefully examines how the rise of the world's human population came to be understood as problematic by scientists and governments across the globe. It challenges our assumption of population growth as inherently problematic by demonstrating how it is ou...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2021].
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| Summary: | 'Building the Population Bomb' carefully examines how the rise of the world's human population came to be understood as problematic by scientists and governments across the globe. It challenges our assumption of population growth as inherently problematic by demonstrating how it is our anxieties over population growth and not population growth itself that have detracted from the pursuit of economic, environmental and reproductive justice. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0197558941 9780197558942 |