eprintid: 4628 rev_number: 5 eprint_status: archive userid: 351 dir: disk0/00/00/46/28 datestamp: 2016-01-15 02:06:41 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:36:12 status_changed: 2016-01-15 02:06:41 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 1 creators_name: MacKellar, F.L. creators_id: AL0956 title: On human carrying capacity: A review essay on Joel Cohen's: How Many People Can the Earth Support? ispublished: pub internal_subjects: iis_pop internal_subjects: iis_mig internal_subjects: iis_ecn divisions: prog_pop abstract: Joel Cohen's eagerly awaited and broadly disseminated book is erudite, suffused with the ethical dimension of population policy, and comprehen- sive-touching on everything from paleodemography to AIDS, the theory of fertility decline, international population policy, and more. On these grounds, if a scientifically literate friend asked you for one book to read about population, this would be a good suggestion. The book is, as its au- thor promises us in the Introduction, "neither an alarmist tract nor a cornucopian lullaby" (p. 12), and that is precisely the sort of responsible balance we expect from a leading researcher in the field. The style of the book is breezy and irrepressible; some will like it, others will not. I found myself wishing that the editor had excised the chattiness, but readers with stronger nerves may thrive on it. Having been assured that the volume is basically sound, readers of this journal will wish to know whether it makes a scientific contribution or sheds new light on policy questions. Here, How Many People Can the Earth Support? is a study in contrasts.... date: 1996-03 date_type: published publisher: Wiley-Blackwell official_url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2137692 iiasapubid: XJ-96-078 iiasa_bibref: Population and Development Review; 22(1):145-156 (March 1996) iiasa_bibnotes: Available at <www.jstor.org/stable/2137692> Book Review creators_browse_id: 2146 full_text_status: none publication: Population and Development Review volume: 22 number: 1 pagerange: 145-156 refereed: TRUE issn: 1728-4457 coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article citation: MacKellar, F.L. (1996). On human carrying capacity: A review essay on Joel Cohen's: How Many People Can the Earth Support? Population and Development Review 22 (1) 145-156.