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Population, Environment, and Conflict*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Norman Myers
Norman Myers
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Consultant in Environment and Development, Upper Meadow, Old Road, Headington, Oxford 0X3 8SZ, England, UK.
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Developing nations have yet to enter the projected main phase of their population explosion. Between 1950 and 1985 they increased their numbers by 1,980 million people, whereas between 1985 and 2020 the increase is projected to be 2,783 millions. If we exclude China from the reckoning, on the grounds of that country being well on the way to a zero-growth population, the figures are 1,486 millions and 2,415 millions.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , Spring 1987 , pp. 15 - 22
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1987

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