Population Bomb Research Articles

Book Reviews

Journal Article Book Reviews Get access FAMILY PLANNING IN INDIA: DIFFUSION AND POLICY, P. M. Blaikie , Arnold, 1975. £10. ON DEFUSING THE POPULATION BOMB, M. E. Endres . Schenkman, 1975. No price. INFORMATION, EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION IN POPULATION AND FAMILY PLANNING: A Guide for National Action; W. B. Johnson , F. Wilder , D. J. Bogue and others. Community and Family Study Centre, University of Chicago, 1973. No price. M. J. Shepperdson M. J. Shepperdson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Community Development Journal, Volume 11, Issue 2, April 1976, Pages 165–166, https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/11.2.165 Published: 01 April 1976

Fuel for the Population Bomb

Fuel for the Population Bomb

No need to worry?

After Silent Spring, The Population Bomb and The Limits to Growth, comes The Doomsday Syndrome, the latest addition to the ecology publishing market. Now, just when it appears that more is being sold than is being done, the UN Stockholm conference on the environment has completed a sober attempt to evaluate man's condition and to promote international understanding of the subject and, incidentally, to push yet another book, Only One Earth, on to an already saturated market.

Defusing the population bomb

Defusing the population bomb

Urban and Rural Natural Increase in Chile

Like Sweden among European countries, Chile has become popular among demographers interested in population movements in South America. In both cases, the attraction lies in the relative plenitude of historical data of fairly high quality and in the relative detail in which current data are published. Furthermore, as a country, Chile has seemed to some1 to be passing nicely through the so-called demographic transition, in which a fall in the death rate precedes a fall in the birth rate with an interstitial spurt in population growth. A great deal of optimism regarding future population trends in Chile, as in other developing countries, has attached to the process of urbanization. Given the fact that urban areas are now generally characterized by similar death rates but lower birth rates than rural areas, the implication is that as a country urbanizes, a greater proportion of the population will be exposed to the lower urban rate of natural growth and the population bomb will cease to explode. This paper is devoted to a consideration of the urban-rural differences in the rate of natural increase in Chile, analyzing both the changes in the rates themselves and the changes in differences in those rates between the urban and rural populations over the period 1952 to 1960. The purpose of such an