Balancing Humans in the Biosphere: Escaping the Overpopulation Trap

Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Life Expectancy Drives U.S. and World Population Growth An NPG Forum Paper The Optimum Population Series by Robert Costanza July 1990 This is the eighth in a series of NPG Forum papers exploring the idea of optimum population what would be a desirable population size for the United States? Without any consensus …

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The Second Great Wall of China: Evolution of a Successful Policy of Population Control

Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version The Second Great Wall of China: Evolution of a Successful Policy of Population Control An NPG Forum Paper by J. Mayone Stycos October 1989  J. Mayone Stycos is Director of the Cornell University Population and Development Program, and the author of books and papers on population problems in Latin America and the …

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