Global issues : an introduction

Intro -- Global Issues -- Contents -- Plates -- Figures, Maps, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The Creation of Global Issues -- Developing toward What? -- Notes -- 1 Population -- The Changing Population of the World -- Causes of the Population Explosion -- How Population Growth Affects Development -- Rapid growth -- Slow growth -- An aging population and low birth rates -- International conferences on population -- How Development Affects Population Growth -- Demographic transition -- Factors lowering birth rates -- Governmental Population Policies -- Controlling growth -- Promoting growth -- The Future -- The growth of the worlds population -- The carrying capacity of the Earth -- Optimum size of the Earths population -- Population-related problems in our future -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 2 Wealth and Poverty -- Wave of Hope: The Millennium Development Goals -- A Pessimistic View: The Persistence of Poverty -- Development Assistance and Foreign Aid -- A Market Approach -- The State as Economic Actor -- A Blended Approach -- Geography and Wealth, Geography and Poverty -- Globalization -- Positive aspects -- Negative aspects -- An evaluation -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 3 Food -- World Food Production -- How Many Are Hungry? -- Causes of World Hunger -- How Food Affects Development -- How Development Affects Food -- The production of food -- The loss of food -- The type of food -- The "Green" Revolution -- Fertilizers -- Pesticides -- Irrigation -- The future -- Governmental Food Policies -- Future Food Supplies -- Climate -- Arable land -- Energy costs -- Traditional/sustainable/organic agriculture -- Biotechnology -- Fishing and aquaculture -- Future food production -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 4 Energy -- The Energy-Climate Crisis -- Energy and security.