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'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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Merchant, Emily Klancher (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2021].
Subjects:
Overpopulation > History > 20th century.
Overpopulation > Public opinion.
Population > Economic aspects > History > 20th century.
Population > Environmental aspects > History > 20th century.
Population policy > History.
Population policy.
Overpopulation.
Population > Economic aspects.
Population > Environmental aspects.
1900-1999
History.
Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations used in Notes
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Quantity and quality
  • Chapter 2. Family planning
  • Chapter 3. Global population
  • Chapter 4. Population consensus
  • Chapter 5. Demography as diplomacy
  • Chapter 6. Detonating the Population Bomb
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.