Population, Law and the Environment

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Robert M. Hardaway

Book Code: C4570

ISBN: 0-275-94570-7

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-94570-1

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192 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 6/30/1994

List Price: $103.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)

Availability: Print on demand

Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Ebook

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Endorsement From
Richard D. Lamm, Director

Center for Public Policy and Contemporary Issues

University of Denver: Professor Hardaway has given us a scholarly and readable book about the most important issues which face humankind.
Endorsement From Malcolm Potts, MB, BChir, PhD

Bixby Professor, Population and Family Planning

University of California, Berkeley: The law can provide an overarching discipline to disparate subjects. For too long specialists concerned with population growth, environmental degradation, and migration pressures have conducted independent and even mutually hostile approaches to overlapping topics. Pro legal perspective brings out inherent relationships and restores a much needed unity of approach to a central problem of our tormented century--the recent exponential growth in human numbers.

Description: A point-counterpoint challenge of the views expressed by Vice President Al Gore in Earth in the Balance, this important study questions current assumptions about the cost and effectiveness of environmental laws and policies, revealing the crucial link between programs of population control and long-term environmental goals. Governmental policy on the environment, as well as private environmental action, has typically been curative and reactive in nature--directed towards cleaning up past disasters and limiting the types and amounts of pollutants emitted. But what is the cost-effectiveness of such policies at a time when the population of the world continues to expand at an exponential rate? And what should be the role of population control in environmental policy? Robert Hardaway explores these issues and questions, refocusing attention on the importance of population growth to environmental quality. Synthesizing contemporary population theories in the context of environmental policy, Hardaway relates population, law, and the environment to abortion, immigration, education, and economic regulation.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
Malthus and the Environment
Environmental Laws and Policies
Private Environmental Action
Family Planning
Abortion
Immigration
Economic Policy
Putting It All Together--The Doctrine of Environmental Malthusianism
Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 93-44501

LCC Class: HB871

Dewey Class: 304.6


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