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A highly readable revisiting of "Limits to Growth."

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Bok, Sissela. 1994. "Population ethics: Expanding the moral space". Pages 15-26 in G. Sen, and L. Chen editors. Population policies reconsidered: Health, empowerment and rights. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Bright, Christopher. 1999. "Invasive Species: Pathogens of Globalization." Foreign Policy. Fall 1999.
With increased world trade, invasive species have become a policy issue as well as an ecological threat.

Brito, D. and M. de Souza Lima Figueiredo. 2003. "Minimum viable population and conservation status of the Atlantic Forest spiny rat Trinomys eliasi."Biological Conservation. 113 (1): 153-158.
South America's Atlantic Forest is one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world. How can we save endemic species there?

Brown, L. R. and B. Halweil. 1999. "Where Death Rates Are Rising," Worldwatch Magazine 12(5):20-29.
In some places, the historic trend toward longer life has been abruptly reversed.

Brown, Lester, Gary Gardner and Brian Halweil. 1999. Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Problem. Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute.

Cappuccino, Naomi, and Peter W. Price, eds. 1995. Population dynamics: New Approaches and synthesis. New York: Academic Press.
A good blend of population biology and economic applications.

Case, Ted J., Martin L. Cody, and Exequiel Ezcurra (eds). 2002. Island Biogeography in the Sea of Cortez II. Oxford Univ. Press.
Ecology in an area rich in biodiversity.

Casterline, John B. and Steven W. Sinding, "Unmet Need for Family Planning in Developing Countries and Implications for Population Policy," Population and Development Review 26, no. 4 (2000): 691-723.

Caswell, Hal. 2001. Advances in Ecological Research (Vol 32). Academic Press.
An anthology of articles on the current state of ecological research.

Cohen, J.E. 1995. "Population Growth and Earth's Human Carrying Capacity," Science 269(5222):341-346.
A trenchant analysis of human choice and agency complicate simple ecological analysis of carrying capacity.

Cohen, Joel. 1995. How Many People Can the Earth Support? Norton Books.
Unlimited growth can't last forever.

Daily, Gretchen C. and Paul R. Ehrlich, 1992. "Population, Sustainability, and Earth's Carrying Capacity," Bioscience (November 1992) pp. 761-771.

Dasgupta, Partha S. 1995."Population, Poverty and the Local Environment," Scientific American (February 1995), pp. 40-45.

Dasgupta, Partha, Carl Folke, and Karl-Göran Mäler. 1994. "The Environmental Resource Base and Human Welfare". Pages 25-50 in Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling and Hans Landberg, eds., Population, Economic Development, and the Environment. New York: Oxford University Press.

Diamond, Jared. 1997. "Paradises Lost," Discover 18(11):69-78.
A tragic but informative history of environmental impoverishment and extinction of Polynesian settlements on Pitcarin and Henderson Islands in the South Pacific.

Dobbs, David. 2000. The Great Gulf: Fishermen, Scientists, and the Struggle to Revive the World's Greatest Fishery. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
A fascinating description of the collapse of the New England cod fishery and the controversy between commercial fishermen and government regulators about how to count wild fish.

Driscoll, Don A. 1998. "Genetic Structure, Metapopulation Processes and Evolution Influence the Conservation Strategies for Two Endangered Frog Species," Biological Conservation 83(1):43-54 Gives an example of the importance of population genetics in conservation.

Easterlin, Richard. 1996. "The Next Century in Historical Perspective." Pages 145-154 in Growth triumphant : the twenty-first century in historical perspective. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Ebert, Thomas A. 1998. Plant & Animal Populations: Methods in Demography. Academic Press.
Application of population data and life cycle analysis in biological conservation.

Ehrlich, Paul R. 2000. Human Nature: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
A refutation to theories of genetic determinism of human behavior.

Engelman, Robert. 1998. "Human Population Prospects." Pages 47-78 in Nicholas Polunin, ed. Population and Global Security.
New York: Cambridge University Press.

Erickson, Brad. 1999 "Counterpoint: What Restricting Immigration Won't Save One Tree," Inner Voice 9(6): 21-22.
A social justice view that rising consumption rates are a greater environmental threat than immigration.

Fahrig, Lenore. 1997. "Relative Effects of Habitat Loss and Fragmentation on Population Extinction," The Journal of Wildlife Management 61:603-610.
Presents information that indicates that habitat loss has a greater effect on species extinction than does habitat fragmentation.

Ford, Andrew. 1999. Modeling the Environment. Island Press.
Presents basic concepts in modeling and system dynamics.

Gotelli, N. J. 1995. A Primer of Ecology. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, Mass. 206pp.
A general text on population ecology.

Grant, Lindsey. 1997. "Point: Want to Help the Environment? First Control Immigration," Inner Voice 9(6): 19-20.
A Malthusian claim that we ought to close our borders to immigrants.

Gurney, W. S. C. and R. M. Nisbet. 1998. Ecological Dynamics. Oxford Univ. Press.
An introductory text on mathematical modeling and population biology.

Hanski, I. (ed), 1997. Metapopulation Biology: Ecology, Genetics, and Evolution.
A collection of articles on population biology.

Hanski, Iikka. 1999. Metapopulation Ecology Oxford, UK: Oxford Univ Press.
A comprehensive synthesis of population biology.

Harrison, Paul and Fred Pierce. American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2000.
Atlas of Population and Environment (2000): University of California Press,

Hartmann, Betsy. 1999. Population, Environment, and Security: A new Trinity. In Jael Silliman and Ynestra King, Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment, and Development, Cambridge: South End Press, 1999, pp. 1-23.

Harvey, David. 1974. "Population, resources, and the ideology of science." Economic Geography 50: 256-277.
A Marxian view of the population question.

Harvey, Philip D. 1999. Let Every Child Be Wanted: How social Marketing Is Revolutionizing Contraceptive Use Around the World. New York: Greenwood Publishing.
A hopeful look at family planning practices and policies.

Hastings, Alan. 1994. Population Biology: Concepts and Models. Berlin: Springer Verlag.
A general text on the subject.

Homer-Dixon, Thomas F. 1999. Environment, Scarcity, and Violence. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press.
A Malthusian warning about competition for scarce resources.

Hubbell, Stephen P. 2001. The Unified Neutral Theory of biodiversity and Biogeography (Monographs in Population Biology No 32). Princeton Univ. Press.
Presents a theory to explain the origin, maintenance, and loss of biodiversity in a biogeographic context.

Hughes, J.B., G.C. Daily, and P.R. Ehrlich. 1997. "Population Diversity: Its Extent and Extinction," Science 278(5338):689-692.
An attempt to estimate the losses of distinct populations within species.

Johnson, D. Gale. March 2000. "Population, Food, and Knowledge," American Economic Review 90(1): 1-14.
Will there be enough food for everyone?

Jones, A.G., et al. 2003. "A review of conservation threats on Gough Island: a case study for terrestrial conservation in the Southern Oceans." Biological Conservation 113 (1): 75-87.
A case study in island biogeography.

Kot, Mark. 2001. Elements of Mathematical Ecology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press.
An introduction to classical and modern population biology.

Lassonde, Louise. 1997. Coping with Population Challenges. London: Earthscan. Examines the Programme of Action adopted at the U.N.
Conference in Cairo in light of demographic challenges and ideological conflicts.

Lindahl-Kiessling, Kerstin and Hans Landberg, eds. 1994. Population, Economic Development, and the Environment. New York: Oxford University Press.
A good overview of population and development.

Liu, J., Dally, G. C., Ehrlich, P. R. & Luck, G. W. 2003. "Effects of household dynamics on resource consumption and biodiversity." Nature, published online, (2003).
More homes with fewer occupants are endangering plants and animals.

Lutz, W., O'Neill, B. C. & Scherbov, S. 2003. "Europe's population at a turning point." Science, 299, 1991 - 1992 , (2003).
Statistics show that European populations started to decline around the year 2000

Lutz, Wolfgang, et al. 2001. "The end of world population growth." Nature 412: 543-545.
A statistical prediction of human population growth.

MacArthur, Robert H. and Edward O. Wilson. 2001. The Theory of Island Biogeography. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press.
A new edition of an ecological classic.

McCay, Bonnie J. and Svein Jentoft. 1998. "Market or Community Failure? Critical Perspectives on Common Property Research." Human Organization, Vol. 57, No. 1, pages 21-29.

McCullough, Dale R., ed. 1996. Metapopulations and Wildlife Conservation. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
Metapopulation theory is an important development in both conservation biology and wildlife management.

McKibben, Bill 1999. Maybe One: A Case for Smaller Families. Plume Books.
Explores the consequences for children and their families of an ecologically-based choice to have just one child.

McKibben, Bill. 1999. "Taking the Pulse of the Planet," Audubon 101(6): 104-111.
An interview with Worldwatch President Lester R. Brown.

Meffe, G. K. and C. R. Carroll. 1997. Principles of Conservation Biology (2^nd ed.).
An excellent introduction to conservation biology and population ecology.

Menza, Valeria and John R. Lupien. 1998. "World Population and Nutritional Well-being." Pages 157-171 in Nicholas Polunin, ed. Population and Global Security. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Miller, P. S. 1995. "Selective Breeding Programs for Rare alleles: Examples from the Przewalski's Horse and California Condor Pedigrees." Conservation Biology 9(5):1262-1273.
Application of population genetics to the conservation of rare species.

Mitchell, J. D. 1998. "Before the Next Doubling," Worldwatch Magazine January/February 1998.
How large will the human population be?

Mitchell, Jennifer D. 1998. "Breaking Population Momentum," World Watch 11(1):20-27.
Our window of opportunity to prevent another doubling is down to less than ten years.

Moritz, C., et al. 1997. "Genetic Population Structure of the Greater Bilby Macrotis Lagotis, a Marsupial in Decline," Molecular Ecology 6(10):925-936.

Murphy, Raymond. 1994. "Environmental Classes and Environmental Conflict". Pages 163 - 173 in Rationality and Nature: A Sociological Inquiry into a Changing Relationship. Boulder, CO: Westview.

Northwestern Environment Watch. 1977. Slowing Population Growth. Seattle, WA: Northwestern Environment Watch.
Policy options for slowing population growth in the Pacific Northwest.

Peterson, Rolf O. 1995. Wolves of Isle Rroyale: A Broken Balance. Minocqua, WI: williow Creek Press.
A fascinating story of a isolated population of top carnivores.

Pimentel, David, et al. 1999. "Will Limits of the Earth's Resources Control Human Numbers?" Environment, Development and Sustainability. Vol 1, pages 19-39.

Pletcher, Daniel H., et al. 1997. "Population Dynamics of a Recolonizing Wolf Population," The Journal of Wildlife Management 61:459-465.
A detailed example of population changes within a group of gray wolves.

Polunin, Nicholas, ed. 1998. Population and Global Security. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Population Reference Bureau. 2003. Population Data Sheet 2002.
An authoritative summary of demographic information by country.

Potts, Malcolm. 2000. "The Unmet Need for Family Planning." Scientific American 282(1): 88-93.
Women and men in many countries still lack adequate access to contraceptives.

Pyare, S and J. Berger. 2003. "Beyond demography and delisting: ecological recovery for Yellowstone's grizzly bears and wolves." Biological Conservation 113 (1): 63-73.
What will it take to maintain healthy populations of predators in the park?

Reed, D.H., et al. 2003. Estimates of minimum viable population sizes for vertebrates and factors influencing those estimates." Biological Conservation 113 (1): 23-34

Roberts, Bryan. 1994. "Urbanization and the Environment in Developing Countries: Latin America in Comparative Perspective". Pages 303-338 in Lourdes Arizpe, M. Priscilla Stone and David C. Major, eds. Population and the Environment: Rethinking the Debate. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Rosenzweig, M. L. 1995. Species Diversity in Space and Time. Cambridge Univ. Press.
What factors determine biological diversity?

Ross, Eric B. 1998. "Introduction". Pages 1-7 in The Malthus factor: poverty, politics and population in capitalist development. London & New York: Zed Books.

Ross, John A. and William L. Winfrey, "Unmet Need for Contraception in the Developing World and the Former Soviet Union: An Updated Estimate," International Family Planning Perspectives 28, no. 3 (2002).

Roughgarden, Jonathan. 1997. Primer of Ecological Theory. New York: Prentice Hall.
An overview of ecological modeling as it relates to population biology and current ecological theory.

Ruttan, Vernon W. 1999. The Transition to Agricultural Sustainability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA. Vol. 96, pages 5960-5967.

Schwartz, Michael K., et al. 2002. "DNA reveals high dispersal synchronizing the population dynamics of Canada lynx." Nature 415, 520-522 (31 January 2002).
Even across distances greater than 3,000 km, there is high gene flow between core and peripheral lynx populations.

Sen, Amaryta. 1994. "Population and reasoned agency: Food, fertility, and economic development." Pages 51-78 in Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling and Hans Landberg, eds., Population, Economic Development, and the Environment. New York: Oxford University Press.

Sen, Gita. 1994. "Women, Poverty and Population: Issues for the Concerned Environmentalist." Pages 67-86 in Lourdes Arizpe, M. Priscilla Stone and David C. Major, eds. Population and the Environment: Rethinking the Debate. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Senanayake, Pramilla. 1998. "Women and the Family Planning Imperative". Pages 185-204 in Nicholas Polunin, ed. Population and Global Security. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Smith, R. L. 1990. Ecology and Field Biology (4th ed.) New York: Harper and Row.
A classic field ecology text.

Soulé, M. E., Editor. 1987. Viable Populations in Conservation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
A good discussion of the role of population biology in conservation.

Steingraber, Sandra. 2001. Having Faith. Perseus Pub.
An environmentalist thinks about adding a child to the world.

Stiassny, M. L. J. and A. Meyer. 1999. "Cichlids of the Rift Lakes," Scientific American 280(2):64-69.
"These fish exhibit some of the fastest speciation of any biological group, but human changes in their native lakes threatens their amazing diversity.

Tierney, John. 1990. "Betting the planet." New York Times Magazine, 12/2/90.
Describes the debate between Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich on the future of the world.

Tilman, D. 1999. "Diversity and Production in European Grasslands," Science (US) 286: 1099-1100, November 5, 1999.
Contrary to predictions from simple models, diversity can protect biological communities from disturbance.

Tilman, D. and P. Kareiva (eds). 1997. Spatial Ecology. Princeton Univ. Press.
Discusses the structure, dynamics, diversity, and stability of multispecies communities.

Vitousek, P., H. A. Mooney, J. Lubchenco, and J. Melillo. 1997. Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems. Science 277 (25 July): 494-499.
How much of the world's net primary productivity do we dominate?

Wackernagel, Mathis et.al., 2002. "Tracking the Ecological Overshoot of the Human Economy," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (July 9, 2002).
A calculation of our ecological footprint.

Whittaker, Robert J. 1999. Island Biogeography: Ecology, Evolution and Conservation. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
An excellent introduction to the science of island biogeography and its conservation implications.

Wilson, E. O. and W. H. Bossert. 1971. Primer of Population Biology. Sinauer.
A classic in the field.

World Resources Institute. 2003. World Resources 2003-2004. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. Full summary, available online at www.wri.org/wr2000/pdf.html.
An excellent source of data on environment and resources.