Society cannot increase beyond its ability to acquire natural
resources or to dispose safely of pollutants. One need not be an
ecologist or environmental scientist to understand the dangers
implicit in an uncontrolled degradation of the environment.
Calculating how many people each individual nation should have and
determining the means by which politically various populations will
be controlled calls for difficult decisions. This book provides a
concrete, easily understood, and realistic analysis of the
scientific and legal dimensions of environmental stability. Miguel
A. Santos outlines the current international ecological crises and
defines them as the most serious threat to international world
order and ecological stability.
The book is divided into five sections beginning with an
examination of the ecological characteristics of human population
and a discussion of population policies in developing and developed
nations. This section is followed by the construction of an
analytic framework for the interaction of society with the
environment. Further chapters provide an overview of natural
resources and pollution and the criteria for determining the
earth's carrying capacity for humans. The final section considers
the problems and prospects of international law and environmental
protection. Although written for ecologists, environmental
scientists, demographers, political scientists, economists, and
lawyers, this book is not limited to them. Anyone interested in the
relationship between the environment and society will find this
book instructive and provocative.
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