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Population Politics - The Choices That Shape Our Future (Hardcover)
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International efforts to regulate fertility rates so that
populations do not grow beyond the earth's capacity have included
technical assistance and capital; improved health care conditions
to lower the risk of infant mortality; increased opportunities to
develop literacy; the democratization of governments; and several
decades of liberal immigration and refugee policies favoring third
world nations. The persistence of high fertility despite
international efforts confounds demographers. 'Population Politics'
brilliantly dissects the paradigm responsible for the
counterproductive efforts of nations and international agencies.
Abernethy, a renowned anthropologist, shows why policies hamper the
shift to lower fertility. Ireland, Indonesia, Cuba, China, Turkey
and Egypt are but a few of the countries Abernethy examines,
showing how economic, sociocultural, and agricultural factors that
have caused population growth can be harnessed to stabilize
population size. 'Population Politics' is a provocative examination
of the influence of aid and liberal immigration policies on world
population growth, and often counterproductive to the role of the
United States as an industrial power. This volume's uniquely
interdisciplinary perspective will enlighten the lay reader, as
well as demographers and epidemiologists, conservationists,
reproduction and family specialists, agricultural economists, and
public health personnel. Virginia D. Abernethy is professor
emeritus of psychiatry (anthropology) at Vanderbilt Medical School
and was for 11 years the editor of the scholarly journal
'Population and Environment. Garrett Hardin is emeritus professor
of human ecology in the Department of Biological Sciences and the
University of California, Santa Barbara.
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