Population, economic development, and the environment edited by Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling and Hans Landberg.

Includes bibliographical references.

Population, development, and institutional change: summary and analysis / Tommy Bentsson, Christer Gunnarsson -- The environmental resource base and human welfare / Partha Dasgupta, Carl Folke, Karl-Göran Mäler -- Population and reasoned agency: food, fertility, and economic development / Amartya Sen -- An ecologist view of the Malthusian conflict / C.S. Holling -- 'Children are like young bamboo trees': potentiality and reproduction in Sub-Saharan Africa / Caroline Bledsoe -- Economic analysis of fertility: micro-foundations and aggregate implications / Robert J. Willis -- Government, population, and poverty: a 'win-win' tale / Nancy Birdsall -- Institutional analysis of fertility / Geoffrey McNicoll -- The relevance of Malthus for the study of mortality today: long-run influences on health, mortality, labour force participation and population growth / Robert Fogel.