Today's ecological and political instability has stimulated interest in how similar problems have arisen in the past - and how they have been resolved. But this research has long been divided along different research traditions. I draw together five broad research strands: neo-institutionalism,...

Today's ecological and political instability has stimulated interest in how similar problems have arisen in the past - and how they have been resolved. But this research has long been divided along different research traditions. I draw together five broad research strands: neo-institutionalism,...

In the second half of the XX century the neo-Malthusian theory became the basis for the practical politics of many developing countries. Thus, governments­ have recognized that Malthusian laws are a?reality of the traditional society­, that they are the laws of history. The neo-Malthusian...