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Thursday, September 30, 2010

More People Need More Forests

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The Economist has a special section on forests-- "the world's lungs." For the past 10,000 years we have been cutting down for...
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

The Malthusian Response to Bad Times--Postpone Marriage

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The US Census Bureau has just posted the 2009 American Community Survey results to its website, and many journalists have focused directly ...
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Do You Live in a Global City?

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In "honor" of the fact that more than half of the world's population now lives in urban areas, Foreign Policy has linked up wi...
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Monday, September 27, 2010

The Conundrum of the Congo

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There is rarely good news out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaïre, and sometimes known as Congo-Kinshasa, to distinguish...
Sunday, September 26, 2010

Battling Poverty With Improved Contraception

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Nicholas Kristoff, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times, has written a column about one of the things missing at last w...
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I am Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography and Director of the International Population Center at San Diego State University.
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