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Health, Population, Limits and the Decline of Nature
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Butler, CD and Higgs, K, Health, Population, Limits and the Decline of Nature, Sage Handbook of Nature, SAGE Publications Ltd, T Marsden (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 1122-1149. ISBN 978-1-4462-9857-2 (2018) [Research Book Chapter]
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Copyright 2018 Colin D. Butler and Kerryn Higgs
DOI: doi:10.4135/9781473983007.n58
Abstract
The main purpose of this chapter is to argue that global population health is in peril, due to a crisis rooted in our species’ lack of respect for nature, and the conceit that humans have largely mastered nature, and nature will do as we wish. To achieve our aim in a convincing way, we explore two parallel and closely related issues: human population growth and limits to growth. This involves discussion of history, economics, politics and social science. Before this, we discuss health (human and ecological) and sustainability. None of these concepts is simple, uncontested, or possible to do justice to here. However, they cannot be ignored.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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| Keywords: | nature, limits to growth, population, health |
| Research Division: | Economics |
| Research Group: | Other economics |
| Research Field: | Ecological economics |
| Objective Division: | Environmental Management |
| Objective Group: | Other environmental management |
| Objective Field: | Other environmental management not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | Higgs, K (Dr Kerryn Higgs) |
| ID Code: | 129342 |
| Year Published: | 2018 |
| Deposited By: | Geography and Spatial Science |
| Deposited On: | 2018-11-25 |
| Last Modified: | 2019-12-03 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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