'Building the Population Bomb' carefully examines how the rise of the world's human population came to be understood as problematic by scientists and government

Figuring the Population Bomb traces the genealogy of twentieth-century demographic “facts” that created a mathematical panic about a looming population expl

This anthology provides an historical overview of the scientific ideas behind environmental prediction and how, as predictions about environmental change have b

Discusses our continually increasing population, its causes and consequences, and efforts by governments and individuals to control its growth.