READING LIST
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August 26
1. *Ronald Lee and Cyrus Chu (2000) "Introduction" to Lee and Chu, eds.,
Population and Economic Change in East Asia, a Supplement to Population
and Development Review v.26, 2000, pp. 1-8.
2 *Allen Kelley (1988) "Economic Consequences of Population Change in the
Third World" Journal of Economic Literature v.36, n.4 pp.1685-1728.
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September 4
3. *Martha Campbell (July 1998) "Schools of Thought: An Analysis of Interest Groups
Influential in International Population Policy" Population and Environment v.19 (6) pp.487-511.
September 11
1. Beyond Six Billion: Forcasting the World's Population (2000) National Research Council.
2. Casterline (2001). "The Pace of Fertility Transition: National Patterns in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century" in Baulatao and Casterline eds. Global Fertility Transition Supplement Population and Development Review vol.27 pp.17-52.
3. Amy Tsui ( 2000). "Population Policies, Family Planning Programs, and Fertility: The Record" in Baulatao and Casterline eds. Global Fertility Transition Supplement Population and Development Review vol.27 pp.184-204.
4. Malyneaux and Gertler (2000). "The Impact of Targeted Family Planning Programs in Indonesia" in Chu and Lee, eds, Population and Economic Change in East Asia, a Supplement to Population and Development Review v.26, pp. 1-8.
5. Pritchett, Lant H. (1994). "Desired Fertility and the Impact of Population Policies" in Population and Development Review, 20(1), pp. 1-55.
Comments and Replies on the above article
6. Pritchett, Lant H. (1994). "The Impact of Population Policies: Reply" in Population and Development Review, 20(3), pp 621-630.
7. Knowles J.K, J.S Akin, P.K. Guilkey (1994). "The Impact of Population Policies: Comment" in Population Development Review, 20(3), pp.611-615.
8. Bongaarts, John (1994). "The Impact of Population Policies: Comment" in Population Development Review, 20(3), pp.616-620.
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September 18
9. *Pedro A. Sanchez (March 2002) "Soil Fertility and Hunger in Africa" Science v.295 pp2019-2020.
September 25
10. * Malcom Potts (1997). "Sex and the Birth Rate: Human Biology, Demographic Change, and Access to Fertility-Regulation Methods" in Population and Development Review v.23(1): pp.1-39.
11. *Joseph Speidel (2000). "Environment and Health: 1. Population, Consumption and human health" Canadian Medical Association Journal v163(5) pp551-556.
October 2
12. *Madhu Khanna and David Zilberman (1997). "Analysis: Incentives, Precision Technology, and Environmental Protection," in Ecological Economics v. 23: pp.25-43.
13. David Zilberman, Scott Templeton and Madhu Kanna (1999). "Agriculture and the Environment: an Economic Perspective with Implications for Nutrition," in Food Policy v 24: pp.211-229.
October 16
14. *Robert Goodland (1995). "The Concept of Environmental Sustainability," in The Annual Review of Ecology Systematics v26:pp.1-24.
October 23
15. Erik Lichtenberg and David Zilberman (1988). "Efficient Regulation of Environmental Health Risks." Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol 103(1): 167-178
16. Robert Spears (1991). "Assessing Health Risks in the Presence of Variable Exposure and Uncertain Biological Effects." The Economics and Management of Water and Drainage in Agriculture ed. Ariel Dinar and David Zilberman. Norwell, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
October 30
17. *Kirk Smith (2000). "Chapter 7 Environment and Health" in Kennedy and Riggs eds US Policy and The General Global Environment: Memos to a President. Aspen Institue, Washington D.C.
18. *Kirk Smith (2000). "Environmental Health - for the Rich or for All?" in Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 78(9)
Presentations:
Global Burden of Disease Presentation
Environmental Risk Presentation
Novermber 6
19. *Cuffaro, N. (1997). "Population growth and agriculture in poor countries: A review of
theoretical issues and empirical evidence." in World Development, 25 (7):1151-1163.
Novermber 13
20. *Scherr, Sara (2000). "A Downward Spiral? Research Evidence on the Relationship Between Poverty and Natural Resource Degredation" in Food Policy, 25(4): 479-498.
November 20
21. *Ron Lee (2002). "Comment: The Second Tragedy of the Commons," in Kinglsey Davis and Michail Bernstam, eds., Resources, Environment, and Population: Present Knowledge, Future Options, a Supplement to Population and Development Review, 1990, vol. 16, pp.315-322.
22. *Garrett Harden (Dec. 13, 1968). ""The Tragedy of the Commonds," Science vol 162: pp.1243-1248.
23. *P.E. Waggoner and J. H. Ausubel "A Framework for Sustainability Science: A Renovated IPAT Indentity" PNAS v.99 n.12 (June 11, 2002) 7860-7865.
November 27
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