Despite rapidly decreasing rates of population growth caused by
reduced fertility in the majority of world regions, demographers
are predicting that the world's population will still double by the
year 2050. The question is therefore no longer the traditional one
of whether the planet can support so many people, but how to
provide a sustainable future for ten billion individuals.
Quantitative problems have become ethical ones. Coping with
Population Challenges addresses these issues in the context of
international debate and agreements since the first World
Population Plan of Action in 1974 to the 20-year Programme of
Action adopted at the International Conference on Population and
Development in Cairo in 1994. The author describes how the
Programme of Action focalizes on women's issues, reproductive
choice and the notion of the individual. However, she identifies a
number of important but neglected areas of the debate that the
Programme failed to address and brings to light some of the
inconsistencies that need to be resolved if the Programme is to be
implemented. The author also looks at the underlying ethical
dimension of all choices relating to the population issue and
suggests measures and machinery for giving effect to states'
commitments, including reformulating problems and defining the
appropriate economic framework for solutions. The book is an
excellent introduction for the non-specialist to a very topical
debate, and a useful reference for researchers. LOUISE LASSONDE is
director of the Fondation du Devenir, Geneva. In her capacity as
anthropologist and demographer, Dr Lassondc has worked closely with
the United Nations and non-governmental organizations in many
countries. Originally published in 1997
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