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Too Many People for Food Resources and the Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

David Pimentel  and
Marcia Pimentel
David Pimentel
Affiliation:
Cornell University, USA
Marcia Pimentel
Affiliation:
Cornell University, USA
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , September 1997 , pp. 217 - 219
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