List of Plates, List of Figures, Maps, and Tables, Foreword, Notes, Introduction: The Creation of Global Issues, 1. Population, The Changing Population of the World, Causes of the Population Explosion, How Population Growth Affects Development, Too rapid, Too slow, An aging population and low birth rates, International conferences on population, How Development Affects Population Growth, Demographic transition, Factors lowering birth rates, Governmental Population Policies, Controlling growth, Promoting growth, The Future, The growth of the world’s population, The carrying capacity of the earth, Optimum size of the earth’s population, Population-related problems in our future, Conclusions, Notes, Further Reading, 2. Wealth and Poverty, The Millennium Development Goals, Development Assistance and Foreign Aid, The Market Approach, The State Approach, The Civil Society Approach, Geography and Wealth, Geography and Poverty, Globalization, Positive aspects, Negative aspects, An evaluation, Conclusions, Notes, Further Reading, 3. Food, World Food Production, How Many Are Hungry?, Causes of World Hunger, How Food Affects Development, How Development Affects Food, The production of food, The loss of food, The type of food, The Green Revolution, Fertilizers, Pesticides, Irrigation, The future, Governmental Food Policies, Future Food Supplies, Climate, Arable land, Energy costs, Alternative/sustainable/organic agriculture, Biotechnology, Fishing and aquaculture, Future food production, Conclusions, Notes, Further Reading, 4. Energy, The Energy Crisis, Responses by Governments to the Energy Crisis, The United States, Western Europe, Japan, China, The Effect of the Energy Crisis on the Development Plans of Less Developed Nations, The Relationship between Energy Use and Development.
John L. Seitz is Professor Emeritus of Government at Wofford College. He earned a BA and MPA from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, and a PhD in political science from the University of Wisconsin. He has extensive first-hand experience of South Korea, Iran, Brazil, Liberia, and Pakistan and previous editions of his book have been used around the world, including translations into Chinese, Japanese, and Portuguese. Kristen A. Hite leads the Climate Change Program at the Center for International Environmental Law and teaches at the University of Maryland. She earned a JD degree from Georgetown University Law Center. Read less
