Title:
The world's population : an encyclopedia of critical issues, crises, and ever-growing countries / Fred M. Shelley.
Author:
Shelley, Fred M., 1952-
Publication Information:
Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, 2015.
Call Number:
HB871 .S534 2015
Abstract:
"This one-volume encyclopedia examines key topics, major world players, and imminent problems pertaining to the world's ever-growing population"-- Provided by publisher.
"Please do not include a summary for this cip"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9781610695060
Physical Description:
xx, 407 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents:
Entries -- Countries -- Cities -- Documents. Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, 1776 ; Thomas Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798 ; Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, 1848 ; Johnson-Reed Act: text of section establishing immigration quotas, 1924 ; Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965: text of amendment eliminating national immigration quotas ; International adoptions: The Hague Convention, Preamble and Articles 1-5, 1993 ; Genocide: the eight states of genocide, 1998 ; Environmental refugees: Living Space for Environmental Refugees (LiSER) - mission statement, 2002 ; One-Child Policy: testimony of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Arthur Dewey concerning China's One-Child Policy, 2004 ; One-Child Policy: 2008 report of the U.S. Congressional-Executive Committee on China on Population Planning ; World Refugee Day: remarks of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the World Refugee Event, June 20, 2013 ; International Migrants Day: remarks by the Director of the U.S. Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration on International Migrants Day, December 18, 2013 ; Climate change and population: remarks of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Jakarta, Indonesia, February 16, 2014.
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