The Optimum Population Series Archives - Negative Population Growth

The Kingdom of the Deaf

The Kingdom of the Deaf An NPG Forum Paper by Lindsey Grant February 1991 Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Lindsey GrantLindsey Grant is a retired Foreign Service Officer; he was a China specialist and served as Director of the Office of Asian Communist Affairs, National Security Council staff member, and Department of State policy Planning staff member. …

The Most Overpopulated Nation

Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version An NPG Forum Paperby Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. EhrlickJanuary 1991 This paper was originally published by NPG in January 1991.We are reprinting it 5 years later, in November 1996, with the Ehrlichs’ permission. Those of us who deal with population issues all the time are frequently confronted by people who …

The Plight of the Chesapeake

Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version The Plight of the Chesapeake An NPG Forum Paper The Optimum Population Series By Stephen Tennenbaum & Robert Costanza December 1990 This is the thirteenth in a series of NPG Forum papers exploring the idea of optimum population ö what would be a desirable population size for the United States? Without any …

You Can’t Go West. Stress in the High Country

You Can’t Go West. Stress in the High Country An NPG Forum Paper by Dennis Brownridge November 1990 Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version

Optimal City Size and Population Density for the 21st Century

Optimal City Size and Population Density for the 21st Century An NPG Forum Paper by Alden Speare and Michael J. White Jr. October 1990 Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version

HOW TO INFLUENCE FERTILITY: THE EXPERIENCE SO FAR

This is the tenth in a series of NPG FOR papers exploring the idea of optimum population—what would be a desirable population size for the United States?

Energy and Population: Transitional Issues and the Eventual Limits

This is the ninth in a series of NPG FORUM papers exploring the idea of optimum population—what would be a desirable population size for the United States?

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 …

NEIGHBORS’ PROBLEMS, OUR PROBLEMS: POPULATION GROWTH IN CENTRAL AMERICA

This is the seventh in a series of NPG FORUM papers exploring the idea of the optimum population- what would be a desirable population size for the United States?

MANNING THE AMERICAN MILITARY: DEMOGRAPHICS AND NATIONAL SECURITY

This is the sixth in a series of NPG FORUM papers exploring the idea of the optimum population—what would be a desirable population size for the United States?