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A Pivotal Moment

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Population, Justice, and the Environmental Challenge

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Edited by Laurie Ann Mazur, Contributions by Martha Farnsworth Riche, Steve Sinding, Tim Wirth, Tim Cohen, Susan Gibbs, Brian O'Neill, Robert Engelman, Elizabeth Malone, Elizabeth Leahy Madsen
Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
Release Date: December 14, 2009
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Pages: 432

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Through a series of essays by leading demographers, environmentalists and reproductive health advocates, A Pivotal Moment offers a new perspective on the complex connection between population dynamics and environmental quality. It presents the latest research on the relationship between population growth and climate change, ecosystem health and other environmental issues. It surveys the new demographic landscape—in which population growth rates have fallen, but human numbers continue to increase. It looks back at the lessons learned from half a century of population policy—and forward to propose twenty-first century population policies that are sustainable and just.

A Pivotal Moment puts forth the concept of “population justice,” which is inspired by reproductive justice and environmental justice movements. Population justice holds that inequality is a root cause of both rapid population growth and environmental degradation. As the authors in this volume explain, to slow population growth and build a sustainable future, women and men need access to voluntary family planning and other reproductive health services. They need education and employment opportunities, especially for women. Population justice means tackling the deep inequities—both gender and economic—that are associated with rapid population growth and unsustainable resource consumption. Where family planning is available, where couples are confident their children will survive, where girls go to school, where young men and women have economic opportunity—there couples will have healthier and smaller families.

Foreword
Introduction

PART I. The Numbers

Chapter 1. Human Population Grows Up \ Joel E. Cohen
Chapter 2. The Largest Generation Comes of Age \ Martha Fransworth Riche
Chapter 3. People on the Move: Population, Migration, and the Environment \ Susan Gibbs
Chapter 4. The Urban Millennium \ United Nations Population Fund

PART II. The Impact

Chapter 5. Climate Change and Population Growth \ Brian C. O'Neill
Chapter 6. Fair Weather, Lasting World \ Robert Engelman
Chaper 7. Adapting to Climate Change: The Role of Reproductive Health \ Malea Hoepf Young, Elizabeth L. Malone, Elizabeth Leahy Madsen, and Amy Coen
Chapter 8. Population Growth, Ecosystem Services, and Human Well-Being \ Lynne Gaffikin
Chapter 9. Numbers Matter: Human Population as a Dynamic Factor in Environmental Degradation \ John Harte
Chapter 10. Environmental Justice in an Urbanizing World \ Gordon McGranahan
Chapter 11. The New Economics of Population Change \ Rachel Nugent
Chapter 12. Food: Will There Be Enough? \ Lester R. Brown
Chapter 13. Understanding the Global Food Crisis: Malthusian Nightmare or Free-Trade Fiasco? \ Walden Bello
Chapter 14. How Much Is Left? An Overview of the Water Crisis \ Eleanor Sterling and Erin Vintinner
Chapter 15. The Biggest Footprint: Population and Consumption in the United States \ Vicky Markham
Chapter 16. Population Growth, Reproductive Health, and the Future of Africa \ Dr. Fred T. Sai
Chapter 17. Cancún: Paradise Lost \ Adriana Varillas
Chapter 18. The Flip Side: How the Environment Impacts Our Reproductive Health \ Charlotte Brody and Julia Varshavsky

PART III. Looking Back, Moving Forward
Chapgter 19. Cairo: The Unfinished Revolution \ Carmen Baroso and Steven W. Sinding
Chapter 20. The New Population Challenge \ Judith Bruce and John Bongaarts
Chapter 21. Rethinking U.S. Population Policy \ Suzanne Petroni
Chapter 22. Going to Extremes: Population Politics and Reproductive Rights in Peru \ Susana Chávez Alvarado and Jacqueline Nolley Echegaray
Chapter 23. Mobilizing Constituencies to Achieve Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for All \ Adrienne Germain
Chapter 24. Women at the Center \ Ellen Chesler
Chapter 25. Taking Stock: Linking Population, Health, and the Environment \ Roger-Mark DeSouza
Chapter 26. From Crisis to Sustainability \ James Gustav Speth

PART IV. Thoughts for the Journey

Chapter 27. Reproductive Rights Are Human Rights \ Jacqueline Nolley Echegaray and Shira Saperstein
Chapter 28. Over-Breeders and the Population Bomb: The Reemergence of Nativism and Population Control in Anti-Immigration Policies \ Priscilla Huang
Chapter 29. Christian Perspectives on Population Issues \ Rev. Dr. James B. Martin-Schramm
Chapter 30. Ecomorality: Toward an Ethic of Sustainability \ Ursula Goodenough
Chapter 31. Reconciling Differences: Population, Reproductive Rights, and the Environment \ Frances Kissling

Afterword: Work for Justice! \ Laurie Mazur and Shira Saperstein

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"A Pivotal Moment demonstrates the possibility of building a sustainable, more equitable future... People count and numbers matter—and this book is a classic call to action we cannot afford to ignore if we care about the well being of current and future generations."

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