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Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment
Virginia Deane Abernethy
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Description for Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment
Paperback. Integrating research from anthropology, biology, and history, this provocative, brilliant book proposes a theory of demographic equilibrium. The author's hypothesis is that human beings, like many other species, are able to adjust their population numbers to the carrying capacity of the environment. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JHBD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 211 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 331.
Integrating research from anthropology, biology, and history, this provocative, brilliant book proposes a theory of demographic equilibrium. The author's hypothesis is that human beings, like many other species, are able to adjust their population numbers to the carrying capacity of the environment. Abernethy points out that in response to perception of scarcity or abundance of resources, culturally mediated values, beliefs and behavioral patterns are modified in ways that can either raise or lower rates of population growth. Abernethy in this way moves beyond the ideological debates that have sundered the field of policy and population. In real world time and ... Read more
Integrating research from anthropology, biology, and history, this provocative, brilliant book proposes a theory of demographic equilibrium. The author's hypothesis is that human beings, like many other species, are able to adjust their population numbers to the carrying capacity of the environment. Abernethy points out that in response to perception of scarcity or abundance of resources, culturally mediated values, beliefs and behavioral patterns are modified in ways that can either raise or lower rates of population growth. Abernethy in this way moves beyond the ideological debates that have sundered the field of policy and population. In real world time and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Transaction Publishers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
202
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781412804592
SKU
V9781412804592
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99-1
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