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Population Growth & Land Use

The student of population growth and its consequences finds himself compelled, whether he likes it or not, to assemble information from the diverse fields (to name them in the order in which they are examined) of biology, medicine, mathematics, archaeology, history, nutrition, agriculture, geography, sociology, politics, economics, town planning, and traffic engineering ー to say nothing of questions of morals and religion. This book is only a preliminary attempt to survey the necessary range of material and should be soon superseded. But it suffices to show that the principal questions of population growth are not what many people think. Population growth has taken place, and will continue, because of improvements in medical knowledge and practice. It brings economic hardship to communities living by traditional methods of agriculture; but it is the only force powerful enough to make such communities change their methods, and in the long run transforms them into much more advanced and productive societies. The world has immense physical resources for agricultural and mineral production still unused. In industrial communities, the beneficial economic effects of large and expanding markets are abundantly clear. The principal problems created by population growth are not those of poverty, but of exceptionally rapid increase of wealth in certain favored regions of growing population, their attraction of further population by migration, and the unmanageable spread of their cities. Measures are proposed for curing these evils.

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Judul Seri
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No. Panggil
304.6 CLA p
Penerbit
London : Macmillan St Martin\'s Press.,
Deskripsi Fisik
406 hal.; ilus.; 15,4 x 22,3 cm.; indeks.
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ISBN/ISSN
333-01126-0
Klasifikasi
304.6
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Tipe Media
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Tipe Pembawa
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Edisi
Ed. 1, Cet. 4
Subjek
Population growth
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