Chakravorty, Sanjoy. 1994. “Equity and the Big City,” Economic Geography, v70n1 (Jan 1994): 1-22.

[Examines some of the causal and temporal relationships between the expected bell-shaped curves for population concentration, income inequality, and regional inequality.]

de Steiguer, J. E. 1995. “Three Theories from Economics about the Environment,” Bioscience, v45n8 (Sep 1995): 552-557.

[That three of the most influential environmental theories were formally stated by English economists. The Malthusian doctrine of population growth and scarcity, John Stuart Mill's theory of the steady-state economy, and the neoclassical notion of efficient markets together offer a comprehensive scheme for solving environmental problems.]

Durning, Alan Thein & Christopher D. Crowther. Misplaced Blame: The Real Roots of Population Growth.

Gugler, Josef. 1988. “Overurbanization Reconsidered,” 74-92 in Josef Gugler (ed.), The Urbanization of the Third World. New York: Oxford University Press.

[Overurbanization if shift in population causes misallocation of labor or increases social costs. Discusses the economic rationale for rural-urban migration, argues for targeted redistribution of surplus investment.]

Hartmann, Betsy. 1987. Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control. New York: Harper & Row.

Hartmann, Betsy. 1995. “Questioning the Population Consensus,” Earth Island Journal, v10n2 (Spring 1995): 34.

[Assesses the "Plan of Action" developed at last September's UN International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo. Argues that the population consensus reached by governments at the conference is based on some powerful misconceptions concerning women's education and poverty.] {Population; Conferences; Women; Education; Poverty}

Hartmann, Betsy & James K. Boyce.. 1979. Needless Hunger: Voices from a Bangladesh Village. San Francisco: Institute for Food and Development Policy.

Kates, Robert W. & Viola Haarmann. 1992. “Where the Poor Live: Are the Assumptions Correct?” Environment, v34n4 (May 1992): 4-11+.

[A review of recent reports and papers linking poverty and the poor to environmental concerns reveals limited and selective documentation of the causal relationships between poverty and environmental degradation, but implicitly assume of a strong relationship between the two. An assessment of what global overviews, country comparisons, and local and regional case studies exist that link poor people to threatened environments should provide insights into the validity of this assumption.]

Kates, Robert W. 1996. “Population, Technology, and the Human Environment: A Thread Through Time,” Daedalus, v125n3 (Summer 1996): 43-71.

[Employs a sequence of four temporal frames--ages, millenia, centuries and decades--to examine the dynamics of population, resources and technology. It appears that the Earth is about halfway in numbers into the third great population surge.]

Kothari, Smitu. 1997. “Whose Independence? The Social Impact of Economic Reform in India,” Journal of International Affairs, v51n1 (Summer 1997): 85-116.

[Kothari documents the social impact of economic liberalization in India. He contends that disparities between the poor and the wealthy have actually increased since 1991.]

Lambert, Thomas. 1995. “What they Missed in Cairo: Defusing the Population Bomb,” USA Today: The Magazine of the American Scene, v123n2596 (Jan 1995): 33-35.

[Those at the Sep 5-13, 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo worked on the assumption that "overpopulation" is a problem. The widely held belief that the planet cannot sustain an increasing population is questioned.] {Conferences; Population; Earth; Natural resources}

Linden, Eugene. 1996. “The Exploding Cities of the Developing World,” Foreign Affairs, v75n1 (Jan 1996): 52-65.

[The rhythm of urban history as: the rise, collapse, and occasional rebirth of cities as disease, changes in trade and technology, and shifting political fortunes rewarded some cities and penalized others. Rhythm has been interrupted in the developing world, where urban populations almost always rise.]

Malthus, Thomas R. & Julian Huxley & Frederick Osborn. 1963 (1960). On Population; Three Essays. New York: New American Library.

Malthus, Thomas Robert. 1992 (1798, 1803). An Essay on the Principle of Population, Or, A View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness: With an Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils Which it Occasions. Cambridge UK; New York: Cambridge University Press.

[selected and introduced by Donald Winch using the text of the 1803 edition as prepared by Patricia James for the Royal Economic Society, 1990, showing the additions and corrections made in the 1806, 1807, 1817, and 1826 editions.]

Mayne, Alan James C. 1993. The Imagined Slum: Newspaper Representation In Three Cities 1870-1914. Leicester, UK; New York: Leicester University Press; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by St. Martin's Press

[The construction of “slum” stereotypes.]

Meadows, Donella H. 1997. “The Key to Population Is Poverty,” Los Angeles Times (Sun, Oct 19, 1997): Opinion Section.

[When we take care of people, population growth will take care of itself.]

Ojima, D. S. & K.A. Galvin & B.L. Turner II. 1994. “The Global Impact of Land-Use Change,” Bioscience, v44n5 (May 1994): 300-304.

[Key research issues relative to rapid changes in land use and land cover that affect the global environment are discussed, including social-economic factors. It is difficult to predict how social-economical factors affecting land-use practices will be affected by changes in climate or atmospheric chemistry.] {Land use; Social conditions and trends; Economic conditions; Environment}

Osborn, Fairfield (ed.). 1962. Our Crowded Planet, Essays on the Pressures of Population. Sponsored by the Conservation Foundation. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday.

Ponting, Clive. 1992. A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press.

Rees, William E. 1992. “EcologicaL Footprints and Appropriated Carrying Capacity,” Environmental Urbanization, v4n2 (1992): 121-30.

Sen, Amartya. 1994. “Population: Delusion and Reality,” New York Review of Books, v41n15 (Sep 22, 1994): 62-71.

[The upcoming International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo Egypt has focused considerable attention on the divisive subject. Problems of migration, income, food supply, poverty and women's rights are discussed.] {Population; Conferences; Migration; Income; Economic development; Food supply}

Stephens, C. 1996. “Healthy Cities or Unhealthy Islands: The Health and Social Implications of Urban Inequality,” Environmental Urbanization, v8n2 (1996): 9 30.

Strange, Carolyn J. 1997. “Trampled By Our Own Ecological Footprints,” Bioscience, v47n6 (Jun 1997): 337-338.

[Argues that ecological footprint analysis is providing sobering peoof that humanity is living beyond the Earth’s means. The technique is also seen as providing a yardstick for measuring sustainability.] {Environmental impact Environmental monitoring Ecology Sustainable development}

Tiffen, M. & M. Mortimore & F. Gichuki. 1994. More People, Less Erosion? Environmental Recovery in Kenya. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.

Turner, B.L. II & W. Clark & R. Kates & J. Richards & J. Mathews & W. Meyer (eds). 1990. The Earth Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere Over the Past 300 Years. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

UNCHS. 1996. “The Global Context: Global Population Change and Urbanization,” 11-31 in UNCHS, An Urbanizing World: Global Report on Human Settlements, 1996. New York: Oxford University Press for the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (HABITAT).

Waggoner, Paul E. & Jesse H. Ausubel & Iddo K. Wernick. 1996. “Lightening the Tread of Population on the Land: American Examples,” Population and Development Review, v22n3 (Sep 1996): 531-545. <http://phe.rockefeller.edu/tread />

Weiskel, Timothy C. 1995. “Can Humanity Survive Unrestricted Population Growth?” USA Today: The Magazine of the American Scene, v123n2596 (Jan 1995): 38-40.

[The Earth is in the midst of a global “extinction event” resulting from an internally generated dynamic--seemingly unrestrained human population growth and the pattern of accentuated parasitism that it has unleashed. Theories of human survival of population growth are discussed.]

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