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Article: Australia: Too Many People? The Population Question. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
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- Journal of Population Research
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- November 1, 2002
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Erik C. Paul, Australia: Too Many People? The Population Question. Aldershot, Hampshire: shgate Publishing Limited. 2001. 206 pp.
From the 1970s to about the mid-1990s, environmental issues dominated public debate concerning the future of Australia's population. More recently, the population debate has expanded to encompass consideration of a much broader agenda, although environmental considerations remain of vital importance, especially in the context of mounting evidence of global warming and other threats to the sustainability of nature and human societies.
Erik Paul's book extends the new agenda even further, presenting a very wide-ranging ...