Introduction
This page is intended to supplement the instructional handout listing materials with a "anti" position on population growth. Many of the materials in this list appear on the BI131 class handout.
The list is in arranged sections by type of material. Magazine and journal articles are first, followed by books. Web pages, as well as books and articles shown in the BI131 handout, but available only by interlibrary loan, are shown in the additional materials section.
The list is prefaced by a brief description of a very useful resource, the Opposing Viewpoints in Context database, where you can find further up-to-date information on this topic.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
An online database called Opposing Viewpoints in Context covers controversial issues, and has content from magazines, newspapers, journals, and from books such as those in the Opposing Viewpoints Series, the Current Controversies Series and others. It is an excellent place to look for views on population growth. Try typing "Overpopulation" in the search space. Look at the "Viewpoints" in the results to find opinions.
Periodical Articles
The following articles are available in full electronic text on the library's electronic databases, or in the Chemeketa library, or both. If you are on a computer connected to Chemeketa's network, clicking on a highlighted title will take you directly to the article.
If you are viewing this page on a computer not connected to Chemeketa's network, you will need your My Chemeketa user name and password to access the article.
Attenborough, D. (2011, April 25). This heaving planet: half a century ago, the WWF was formed to help save endangered animals. Today, it's human beings who are increasingly at risk, through overpopulation and food scarcity. Someone needs to say the unsayable. New Statesman [1996], 140(5050), 28+. Retrieved July 30, 2012, from General OneFile
Barrett, G.W. & Odum, E.P. (2000). The twenty-first century: The world at carrying capacity. Bioscience 50, 363 (6 p.). Retrieved November 9, 2009, from General OneFile database.
Bender, W.H. (1997, March). How much food will we need in the 21st century? Environment 39, 7-28. Retrieved November f9, 2009, from Genral OneFile database.
Berg, Joel. (2012, April). Overpopulation: extending life by 20 or even 30 years: we already face a graying population. Risk & Insurance 23, 54-55. Retrieved July 30, 2012, from General OneFile
Berreby, D. (1990, April). The numbers game. Discover 11, 42 (6 p.).
Bongaarts, J. (1994, March). Can the growing human population feed
itself? Scientific American 270, 36-42.
Bongaarts, J. (1994). Population policy options in the developing world. Science 263, 771-77. Retrieved November 9, 2009, from General OneFile database.
Bongaarts, J. (1998). Demographic consequences of declining fertility. Science 282, 419 (2 p.) Retrieved November 9, 2009, from General OneFile database.
Bongaarts, J. (2002, January). Population: Ignoring its impact. Scientific American 286, 67. (3 p.) Retrieved November 29, 2005, from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier database (Article number 5638891).
Brown, L.R., Gardner, G. & B. Halwell. (1999, February). 16 impacts of population growth. Futurist 33, 36 (7 p.). Retrieved November 9, 2009, from General OneFile database.
Budiansky, S. (1994, September 12). 10 billion for dinner, please. U.S. News & World Report 117, 57 (4 p.). Retrieved November 9, 2009, from General OneFile database. N.B. This article appeared under the description, "Budiansky, S., et al. 1994. Population wars" in the BI131 handout.
Butler, C.D. (2004). Human Carrying Capacity and Human Health. PLoS Medicine 1, e55. Retrieved December 1, 2005, from http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0010055
Carpenter, B. & Watson, T. (1994, September 12). More people, more pollution. U.S. News & World Report 117, 63 (3 p.). Retrieved November 29, 2005, from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier database (Article number 9409077541). N.B. This article appeared under the description, "Budiansky, S., et al. 1994. Population wars" in the BI131 handout.
Cohen, J.E. (1992, November). How many people can earth hold? Discover
1, 114. (6 p.).
Cohen, J.E. (1995). Population growth and earth's human carrying capacity.
Science 269, 341-345. Abstract only available from EBSCOhost
Academic Search Premier database.
Cohen, J.E. (1996, April). Ten myths of population. Discover 17, 42. (5 p.).
Cohen, J.E. (2003). Human population: The next half century. Science 302, 1172-1175. Retrieved November 9, 2009, from Genral OneFile database.
Daily, G. et al. (1998). Food production, population growth, and the environment. Science 281, 1291-1292. Retrieved November 9, 2009, from General OneFile.
Daily, G.C. & Ehrlich, P. (1992). Population, sustainability and the Earth's carrying capacity. Bioscience 42, 761 (11 p.). Retrieved November 29, 2005, from General OneFile database.
Day, L.H. (2004, September/October). The positive side of the older populations To come. World Watch 17, 55-57. Retrieved November 9, 2009, from General OneFile database. N.B. This is listed under the title, "Population and its discontents" in the BI131 handout.
Ehrlich, A. (1985, July/August). Critical masses. Humanist 45, 18-36.
Ehrlich, P.R. (2003, April). Get off the train and walk. Conservation Biology
17, 352 (2 p.).
Ehrlich, P. and Ehrlich, A. (1997). Ehrlich's fables. Technology Review 100, 38-47. Retrieved November 9, 2009, from General OneFile database.
Ehrlich, P. & Ehrlich, A. (1997). The population explosion: Why we should care and what we should do about it. Environmental Law 27, 1187-1208.
Ehrlich, P.R. and Ehrlich, A. (2006, September 30). Enough already. New Scientist 191, 46-50. Retrieved November 39 2009, from LexisNexis Academic database.
Fornos, W. (1998, July/August). No vacancy. Humanist 58, 15-18. Retrieved November 29, 2005, from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier database (Article number 776670).
Fornos, W. (1998, July/August). No vacancy. Humanist 58, 15-18. Retrieved November 29, 2005, from Academic OneFile database.
Gillis, C., & Lunau, K. (2011, June 20). A world of 10 billion: mass extinctions, water shortages, dwindling oil reserves, grinding poverty. Can the Earth sustain every one of us? Maclean's, 124, 60+. Retrieved July 30, 2012, from General OneFile
Hinrichsen, D. (1994, September/October). Putting the bite on planet earth. International Wildlife 24, 36-45. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from Environmental Studies & Policy Collection.
Hinrichsen, D. (1999, September/October). 6,000,000,000 consumption machines. International Wildlife 29, 22 (8 p.). Retrieved November 12, 2009, from Environmental Studies & Policy Collection.
Kates, R.W. (1994, October). Sustaining life on earth. Scientific
American 271, 114-121.
Keyfitz, N. (1989, September). The growing human population. Scientific
American 261, 119-126.
King, M. & Elliott, C. (1997). To the point of farce: a Martian view of the Hardinian taboo--the silence that surrounds population control. BMJ 315, 1441-1443. Retrieved December 2, 2005, from http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/315/7120/1441
Jha, S. & Bawa, K.S. (2006). Population growth, human development,
and deforestation in biodiversity hotspots. Conservation
Biology 20, 906-912.
Linden, E. (1992, Fall). Too many people. Time 140, 64-65. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from Academic OneFile database.
Loefler, I. (2003). The population trap. BMJ 326, 507. Retrieved November 22, 2005, from http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7387/507
Lynas, M. (2004, February 23). The biomass of human bodies now exceeds by a hundred times that of any large animal species that ever existed on land. New Statesman 133), 23-25. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from Academic OneFile database.
McDaniel, C. (2003). Elephant in the room. Conservation Biology 17,
954-956.
MacFarquhar, E. (1994, September 12). Population wars. U.S. News & World Report 117, 54 (4 p). Retrieved November 12, 2009, from Academic OneFile database. N.B. This article appeared under the description, "Budiansky, S., et al. 1994. Population wars" in the BI131 handout.
MacKenzie, D. (1994, September). Will tomorrow's children starve? New
Scientist 143, 24-29.
McKibben, B. (1999, November/December). Taking the pulse of the planet. Audubon 101, 104-110.
McMichael, A. (2002). Population, environment, disease, and survival: Past patterns, and uncertain futures. Lancet 359, 1145-1149. Retrieved November 12, 2009 from ScienceDirect..
Mann, C. (1993, February). How many is too many?. Atlantic Monthly 271, 47-60. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from Student Resource Center Gold.
Mastny, L. (2004, September/October). The hazards of youth. World Watch 17, 18-21. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from General OneFile. N.B. This is listed under the title, "Population and its discontents" in the BI131 handout.
Mitchell, J. (1998, January/February). Before the next doubling. WorldWatch 11, 20-29. Retrieved January 1, 2007, from http://www.worldwatch.org/system/files/EP111A.pdf Note: You must register to access this publication.
Motavalli, J. (1996, November/December). Contents under pressure. E Magazine 7, 28-37.Retrieved November 12, 2009, from General OneFiledatabase.
Nicholson-Lord, D. (2006, November). The numbers game. Ecologist 36, 22-24. Excerpt only available at Britnnica.
Nierenberg, D. (2004, September/October). The population story … so far. World Watch 17, 14-17. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from General OneFile database. N.B. This is listed under the title, "Population and its discontents" in the BI131 handout.
Patel, Z. (2012, July 14). Overpopulation: Curse or bonus? Business Recorder Retrieved July 30, 2012, from General OneFile
Peters, G. (2011). World population, 1970-2009: a perspective on nearly four decades of growth. Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, 73, 112-132. Retrieved July 30, 2102 from General OneFile
Pimentel, D. & Wilson, A. (2004, September/October). World population, agriculture, and malnutrition. World Watch 17, 22-25. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from General OneFile database. N.B. This is listed under the title, "Population and its discontents" in the BI131 handout.
Prosterman, R.L., Hanstad, T. & Ping, L. (1996, November). Can China feed itself? Scientific American 275, 90-96.
Prugh, T. (2009, September-October). Less stuff, or more blood: The world's rich people must decide whether they want to share the planet's resources, or send their children to kill and die for them. World Watch, 22, 30-36. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from General OneFile database.
Raloff, J. (1996, June 22). The human numbers crunch. Science News 149, 396-397. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from Student Resource Center Gold database.
Rich, D. & Mark, J. (2009, Summer). Hold steady. Earth Island Journal, 24, 40-43. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from General OneFile database.
Roush, W. (1994). Population: The view from Cairo. Science 265, 1164-1167. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from Academic OneFile database.
Sadik, N. (1991, March/April). World population continues to rise. Futurist 25, 9-14. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from General OneFile.
Sai, F.T. (2004, September/October). Population, Family planning, and the future of Africa. World Watch 17, 34-37. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from General OneFile database N.B. This is listed under the title, "Population and its discontents" in the BI131 handout.
Six Billion and Counting. (2004, December). Canada & the World Backgrounder 70, 4-6. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from General OneFile.
Smail, J.K. (2004, September/October). Global population reduction: confronting the inevitable. World Watch 17, 58-59. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from General OneFile database. N.B. This is listed under the title, "Population and its discontents" in the BI131 handout.
Smith, C. 1995. Assessing the limits to growth. Bioscience 45, 478-483. Retrieved November 30, 2005, from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier database (Article number 9507125935).
Smith, E. (1992, May 11). Growth vs. environment. Business Week 3265, 66-75. Retrieved December 1, 2005 from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier database (Article Number 9205111632).
Tuljapurkar, S. (2009). Babies make a comeback: the population of some
wealthy countries is shrinking because of a declining birth rate. It comes
as a surprise, and one with policy implications, that after a certain point
of development that trend can reverse. Nature, 460, 693-694.
Vitousek, P.M., Mooney, H.A. (1997). Human domination of Earth's ecosystems. Science 277, 494-499. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from General OneFile.
Welch, B. (2011, December). Unplugging our economic Ponzi scheme: if the human species hopes to continue thriving, we have to embrace a new model that doesn't rely on population growth. Mother Earth News 249. 105-106, 113. Retrieved July 30, 2012, from General OneFile.
Books and Videos
Searching for Books and Videos
The following items are listed in the CCRLS catalog as being at Chemeketa, available for request from another CCRLS location, or available for request through Summit. (See Requesting Materials for instructions on how to do this.) Some are available on the World Wide Web, as indicated:
Bouvier, L.F. and L. Grant. (1994). How many Americans?: Population, immigration and the environment. San Francisco: Sierra Club.
Brown, L.R., Gardner, G. & Halweil, B. (1999). Beyond Malthus: Nineteen dimensions of the population challenge. Washington, DC: WorldWatch. Retrieved July 30, 2012, from http://www.worldwatch.org/system/files/EWB110_0.pdf Note: You must register to access this publication. Library system has: Brown, L.R., Gardner, G. & Halweil, B. (1998). Beyond Malthus: sixteen dimensions of the population problem. Washington, DC: Worldwatch.
Brown, L.R. & Kane, H. (1994). Full house : reassessing the earth's population carrying capacity . New York: W.W. Norton.
Cincotta, R.P., Engelman, R. & Anastasion, D. (2003). The security demographic: population and civil conflict after the Cold War. Washington, DC: Population Action International.
Cincotta, R.P. & Engelman, R. (2000). Nature's place : human population and the future of biological diversity. Washington, DC: Action International.
Durning, A.T. & Crowther, C.D. (1997). Misplaced blame: the real roots of population growth. Seattle: Northwest Environment Watch.
Egendorf, L. (Ed.). (2005). The environment: Opposing viewpoints. Detroit: Greenhaven.
Ehrlich, P. & Ehrlich, A. (1990). The population explosion. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Ehrlich, P., Ehrlich, A. & Daily,G.C. (1995). The stork and the plow: the equity answer to the human dilemma. New York: Putnam's.
Engelman, R. (2008). More: population, nature, and what women want. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
Engelman, R., Mastny, L., & Worldwatch Institute. (2010). Population, climate change, and women's lives. Washington, D.C: Worldwatch Institute.
Erickson, J. (1999). The Human volcano: population growth as geological force. New York : Facts on File.
Gerdes, L.I. (Ed.). (2009). The environment. Detroit: Greenhaven.
Harrison, P. & Pearce, F. (2000). AAAS atlas of population & environment. Berkeley, CA : University of California Press.
Hohm, C.F. & Jones, L.J. & Lio, S. (Eds.). (2000). Population: Opposing viewpoints. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press.
Hohm, C.F. & Jones, L.J. (1995). Population : opposing viewpoints. San Diego: Greenhaven.
International Food Policy Research Institute. (2002). Sustainable food security for all by 2020: Proceedings of an international conference. Washington, D.C.: the Institute.
Lader, L. (1971). Breeding ourselves to death. New York: Ballantine.
Larsen, J. (2002). Population Growing by 80 million annually. In L.R. Brown, J. Larsen & B. Fischlowitz-Roberts (Eds.) The Earth Policy Reader (pp. 87-90). New York: Norton. Retrieved December 1, 2005 from http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/EPR_contents.htm
Markley, O.W. & McCuan, W.R. (1996). 21st century earth: opposing viewpoints. San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press.
Mastny, L. & Cincotta, R.P. (2005). Examining the connections between
population and security. [chapter] In Brown, L. et al. (Eds.), State
of the world 2005: A WorldWatch Institute report on progress toward
a sustainable society (pp. 22-39). New York: w.w. Norton.
Mazur, L. A. (2010). A pivotal moment: Population, justice, and the environmental challenge. Washington, D.C: Island Press.
Simon, J.L. (1981). The ultimate resource. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Meyers, N. & Simon, J. (1994). Scarcity or abundance?. New York: Norton
This book is available in manuscript form at
http://www.juliansimon.org/writings/Norton/.
Mosey, R. M. (2009). 2030, the coming tumult: Unlimited growth on a finite planet. New York: Algora.
Murdock, S.H. (1995). An America challenged: Population change and the future of the U.S. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Newbold, K.B. (2007). Six billion plus: world population in the twenty-first century. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
Rosenzweig, M.L. (1974). And replenish the earth : the evolution, consequences, and prevention of overpopulation. New York: Harper & Row.
Shariatmadari, H., Attenborough, D., British Broadcasting Corporation., &
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm). (2010). How many people
can live on planet earth? Hamilton, N.J: Films for the Humanities &
Sciences.
World at risk: a global issues sourcebook. (2002). Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.
Meadows, D.H., Meadows, L. & Randers, J. (1992). Beyond the limits: confronting global collapse, envisioning a sustainable future Mills, VT: Chelsea Green.
Additional Materials
Below are the Web pages included in the BI131 handout.
Population Action International. Retrieved November 30, 2005, from http://populationaction.org
United Nations Population Fund. (2005). State of world population 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2012, from http://www.unfpa.org/publications/detail.cfm?ID=386&filterListType=
The following books and articles are not available in the CCRLS system, but may be requested through interlibrary loan:
Brown, L. & Flavin, C. (1988, July/August). Earth's vital signs.
Futurist 22, 13-21.
Grant, L. (1992). Elephants and Volkswagens. New York: W.H. Freeman.
McNicoll, G. (1998). Malthus for the twenty-first century. Population and
Development Review 24, 309-316.
To comment or request help, please e-mail Reference or call 503.399.5231.
Address of this page: http://library.chemeketa.edu/instruction/handouts/BI131b.php
Updated: 30 Jul. 2012
