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Peer reviewedRepetto, Robert – Population Bulletin, 1987
The links between population growth, resource use, and environmental quality are too complex to permit straightforward generalizations about causal relationships. However, rapid population growth has increased the number of poor people in developing countries, thus contributing to the degradation of the environment and the renewable resources of…
Descriptors: Depleted Resources, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Progress
Download full textBrown, Lester R.; And Others – 1979
Possible future roles and designs of cars are examined in light of depletion of the earth's oil reserves. A major problem with regard to the rapidly changing world oil outlook is that cars will be competing with more essential claiments for scarce oil supplies including food production, industrial power, home heating, and running trucks and…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Depleted Resources, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Postel, Sandra; Heise, Lori – 1988
This document deals with efforts aimed at reforesting large areas of degraded lands. It includes sections on: (1) tree cover trends; (2) fuelwood challenges of the future; (3) the need to supply industrial wood; (4) stabilizing soil and water resources; (5) forests and climate change; and (6) mobilization for reforestation. (TW)
Descriptors: Agriculture, Conservation (Environment), Depleted Resources, Developing Nations
Rassekh, Shapour – 1980
Influencing the future structure and content of the world's educational systems are: (1) physical constraints; (2) demographic constraints; (3) social structure constraints; (4) economic constraints; (5) employment constraints; (6) financial constraints; (7) political constraints; (8) administration and management constraints; and (9)…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Depleted Resources, Developing Nations, Economic Factors
Brown, Lester R. – 1979
Population growth and resource depletion are discussed. The need is stressed for policy makers to understand how population projections relate to the carrying capacity of the earth's basic biological systems. Because the earth's resources are limited, it is essential that policy makers in developed and developing nations be able to analyze the…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Demography, Depleted Resources, Developed Nations
Jacobson, Willard J. – 1979
To aid junior high and high school educators and curriculum planners as they develop population education programs, the book provides an overview of the population education knowledge base. In addition, it suggests learning activities, discussion questions, and background information which can be integrated into courses dealing with population,…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Concept Teaching, Contraception, Curriculum Development
