World population: past, present, & future
Foreword -- Introductory considerations -- The earth as a privileged planet -- Mathematical descriptions of population trends -- World population growth: 1900-2010: the un data -- World economic expansion: 1945-1990 -- Energy, population and the environment -- Is the earth overpopulated? -- Abortion and population control -- Government family planning now and in the future -- The rhetoric of population control : does the end justify the means? -- Rate equations approach and the future of world population -- Using a rate equations approach to model world population trends -- Prospects of world population slow down -- Falling birth rates and world population projections : a quantitative discussion (1950-2050) -- Quantitative estimates of the future world population decline -- Malthus's mistake -- Author index