دانلود کتاب The Biosphere and Human Society: Understanding Systems, Law, and Population Growth

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Front Cover\nThe Biosphere and Human Society: Understanding Systems, Law, and Population Growth\nCopyright information\nDedication\nTable of Contents\nList of Figures and Tables\nPreface\nONE Paradigms, Environmentalism, and Demography\n 1.1 Paradigms in scholarship\n 1.2 The paradigm in environmentalism\n 1.3 Lessons in human demography\n 1.3.1 Numerical growth and rate of growth of the human population\n 1.3.2 Numerical growth of the human population and the total fertility rate\n 1.3.3 Future numerical growth of the human population\n 1.4 A concluding comment\nTWO Impacts of Human Population Size and Growth: Recent Research\n 2.1 COVID-19\n 2.2 Climate change\n 2.3 Cascading effects\nTHREE Government Efforts to Change the Frequency of Childbearing and Immigration\n 3.1 Social science methodology\n 3.2 Law and government policy on fertility\n 3.3 A further look at the dispute over the fertility impact of family-planning programs\n 3.4 Law and government policy on immigration\nFOUR The Concept of a System: Ecology, Sociology, and the Social Side Effects of Law/Policy\n 4.1 Ecology and sociology\n 4.2 The concept of a system\n 4.3 Social side effects of law/policy\n 4.4 Law, policy, and fertility\n 4.5 A proposal\nFIVE Fertility Rates, Mean Age of Childbearing, and Childlessness\n 5.1 Age-specific fertility rates\n 5.2 Mean age of childbearing among women\n 5.3 Total and age-specific fertility rates: Nations by income level\n 5.4 Childlessness\n 5.4.1 Sex differences in childlessness\n 5.4.2 Involuntary childlessness and voluntary childlessness\n 5.4.3 The Aarssen-Altman theory\nSIX Concluding Remarks\n 6.1 Baseball and the environmentalist’s paradigm\n 6.2 A ‘proceed cautiously’ sign for law and policy\n 6.3 Environmentalism’s paradigm\nIndex