This ambitious interdisciplinary volume places population processes in their social, political, and economic contexts while it considers their environmental impacts. Examining the multi-faceted patterns of human relationships that overlay, alter, and distort our ties to urban and rural landscapes, the book focuses especially on the essential experi

This ambitious interdisciplinary volume places population processes in their social, political, and economic contexts while it considers their environmental impacts.Examining the multi-faceted patterns of human relationships the book focuses especially on the essential experiences and perspectives of poor.