People Policy: Australia's Population ChoicesThis lively and readable contribution to the optical debate on Australia's population and immigration policy (or lack of it) comes from one of the country's best known and most authoritative environmental writers. People Policy contains a wide-ranging, multidisciplinary, informative review of the background to, studies on and approaches to population policy. It draws heavily on submissions to the House of Representatives' committee of inquiry into Australia's population (the Jones Inquiry), which the author served as a consultant. Ever assertive and controversial, yet backing up his points with facts and figures, Doug Cocks puts the case for stabilising Australia's population through powerful arguments drawn from environmental, ecological, economic, social and quality-of-life considerations, balancing his personal views by outlining the full range of cases to be made and choices facing the country. People Policy is for general readers with environmental, green, political and social interests relating to human population studies; it has a glossary of demographic terms to assist lay readers. Being fully referenced with an extensive bibliography, it is also useful for students taking demography, population studies, population & human resources, and human ecology units in Geography, Environmental Studies, Demography, Population Studies, Social Policy, and Urban and Regional Planning programs. It will also interest demographers, planners and policymakers dealing with migration, social and economic development, and urban and regional planning. |
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Contents
AUSTRALIAS DEMOGRAPHIC CHOICES | 9 |
ECONOMIC ARGUMENTS ABOUT POPULATION SIZE | 45 |
RESOURCE AVAILABILITY ARGUMENTS ABOUT POPULATION SIZE | 73 |
Notions of maximum population Maximum resourcelimited | 95 |
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ARGUMENTS ABOUT POPULATION SIZE | 104 |
Some startingpoints The theory of environmental quality City | 123 |
approaches Key points in environmental arguments | 132 |
Some theory Some specific matters for concern Trends in | 141 |
The world population situation and its relevance to Australia Global | 164 |
OVERVIEW OF ARGUMENTS ABOUT POPULATION SIZE | 180 |
OPTIONS FOR AN AUSTRALIAN POPULATION POLICY | 190 |
The societyenvironmenteconomy triangle Broad options for | 220 |
Ecologically sustainable development Settlement policy and regional | 248 |
200 years | 306 |
JONES INQUIRY SUBMISSIONS | 333 |
INTERNATIONAL ARGUMENTS ABOUT AUSTRALIAS POPULATION SIZE | 150 |
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