Since the turn of the millennium it has become clear that the Asia-Pacific Region is, economically, the fastest growing continent in the world, and is likely to remain so for some time despite the setbacks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Asia-Pacific's share of the world's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) doubled from 15 per cent to 30 per cent between 1970…

The last two decades have seen increased threats to agricultural landscapes in Israel. Key factors include population growth, strong pressure from construction entrepreneurs and possible profit to land owners who benefit from a legal conversion of farmland into lands allocated for construction. While each Israeli elementary school student used to…

Adopting a discrete-time cohort-type model to represent the dynamics of a population, the problem of achieving a desired total size of the population under a balanced growth (contraction) and the problem of maintaining the desired size, once achieved, are studied. Properties of positive-time systems and M-matrices are used to develop the results,…

The problems of world population growth are outlined, and each is discussed briefly. (DT)

This editorial concludes that in order for a family planning policy in an underdeveloped country to be effective, it must include incentives to induce economic and social changes aimed at greater equality and higher productivity. (DT)

The problems of population education for peasant cultures are described. The meaningfulness of the usual arguments in favor of low fertility is debated in terms of the facts of peasant life. (DT)

Identifies three components of the global energy dilemma and advocates a redistribution of growth in energy use from rich to poor countries. Outlines steps that must be taken to accomplish this redistribution including population control and improvement of energy technologies. (GS)

This is a discussion of the lifeboat metaphor as it applies to the present population dilemma. (BB)

This grassroots action guide features a conservation initiative working to bring the impacts of human population growth, economic development, and natural resource consumption into balance with the limits of nature for the benefit of current and future generations. Contents include information sheets entitled "Six Billion People and Growing,""The…

Emphasizes the issue of human population growth. Provides information on current demographic trends; their social, economic, and environmental impacts; and Zero Population Growth's (ZPG) position on several controversial topics. (ASK)

Details concerning world regional differences in growth rate are given, while the changing economic implications of population growth are discussed. (DT)

Presents part eight of a continuing series on the exponential function in which, given the current population of the Earth and assuming a constant growth rate of 1.9 percent backward looks at world population are made. (SL)