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Table of contents (8 papers)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The fast increase in the size of the population in many developing countries is a serious obstacle to their attempts to overcome their backwardness, make a substantial improvement to their quality of life, and achieve a sustainable way of exploiting their renewable and non-renewable resources. At the same time, non-sustainable consumption and production patterns in the industrial countries and among wealthy citizens in developing countries, place additional burdens on the planet's natural resources and ecosystems.
With a view of considering these problems and elaborating policy guidelines, the United Nations staged its International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, Egypt, September 5-13, 1994.
This monograph deals with the background to the ICPD, its preparation, proceedings, and contents. It also evaluates its results and recommendations by comparing the ICPD Action Programme with the current scientific literature.
The ICPD dealt with the key issues concerning the interrelations between population, development and environment, and their causes, and was not limited to marginal issues such as abortion, promiscuity and homosexuality as was the impression given in the media as a result of the way these questions were distorted by the action of religious fundamentalists. The ICPD Action Programme forms an impressive charter with a broad range of relevant policy recommendations. Nevertheless, compared to most of the current scientific literature, the ICPD seems to underestimate the seriousness and urgency of the issues at stake.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Population and Development
Book Subtitle: A Message from The Cairo Conference
Authors: Robert Cliquet, Kristiaan Thienpont
Series Title: European Studies of Population
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8591-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1995
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3763-8Published: 31 October 1995
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4627-7Published: 09 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8591-0Published: 09 April 2013
Series ISSN: 1381-3579
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8977
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 180
Additional Information: Originally published in Dutch
Topics: Demography, Population Economics, Social Sciences, general, Political Science, Anthropology