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Book Review: PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT edited by Stephen Morse and Michael Stocking. UCL Press, London, 1995. No. of pages: viii+215. Price: £11.95 (paperback). ISBN 1 85728 283 3.

Book Review: PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT edited by Stephen Morse and Michael Stocking. UCL Press,... Book Reviews analyse at the local level, but this book does not look relations, that family planning programmes should beyond national and global statistics. Population integrate. Reducing the world's environmental prob- lems to the 'mouths to feed dilemma' inevitably leads cannot be massed together as an undifferentiated to solutions that emphasise reducing numbers rather group with little explanation or allowance for the than addressing the root causes of poverty for both impact of social institutions or social relations on women and men. people's interaction with environment and manage- This book does make other recommendations ment of resources. favouring the conservation of resources and invest- In their analysis of overpopulation, the authors of ments in agriculture. Suggested policies include Full House conclude that they have made new strides reducing and eliminating subsidies on inputs such as in accurately predicting carrying capacity and critical water and fertilisers in the belief that if fanners are population density. Yet this discussion of carrying forced into the market they will agree to invest in capacity allows little for how it is likely to change efficiency measures and reduce fertiliser applications. under different socio-economic conditions. The ulti- As if poor fanners in India would have http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Population Geography Wiley

Book Review: PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT edited by Stephen Morse and Michael Stocking. UCL Press, London, 1995. No. of pages: viii+215. Price: £11.95 (paperback). ISBN 1 85728 283 3.

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Wiley
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Copyright © 1996 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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1077-3495
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1099-1220
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10.1002/(SICI)1099-1220(199612)2:4<381::AID-IJPG44>3.0.CO;2-7
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Book Reviews analyse at the local level, but this book does not look relations, that family planning programmes should beyond national and global statistics. Population integrate. Reducing the world's environmental prob- lems to the 'mouths to feed dilemma' inevitably leads cannot be massed together as an undifferentiated to solutions that emphasise reducing numbers rather group with little explanation or allowance for the than addressing the root causes of poverty for both impact of social institutions or social relations on women and men. people's interaction with environment and manage- This book does make other recommendations ment of resources. favouring the conservation of resources and invest- In their analysis of overpopulation, the authors of ments in agriculture. Suggested policies include Full House conclude that they have made new strides reducing and eliminating subsidies on inputs such as in accurately predicting carrying capacity and critical water and fertilisers in the belief that if fanners are population density. Yet this discussion of carrying forced into the market they will agree to invest in capacity allows little for how it is likely to change efficiency measures and reduce fertiliser applications. under different socio-economic conditions. The ulti- As if poor fanners in India would have

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International Journal of Population Geography – Wiley

Published: Dec 1, 1996

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