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World Population: Past, Present, & Future - Hardcover

Julio A Gonzalo; Manuel Alfonseca; Felix-Fernando Munoz

 
9789813140998: World Population: Past, Present, & Future
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9813140992 ISBN 13: 9789813140998
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2016

Synopsis

World Population: Past, Present,&Future uses a multidisciplinary approach to investigate in depth on important aspects of the evolution of world population not well addressed previously. The authors from the Universidad Autonoma, Madrid (Spain), professors Julio A Gonzalo, Manuel Alfonseca, and Félix-Fernando Muñoz, point out that the recent pronounced growth in world population (accompanied by an even more pronounced growth in agricultural production) was due mainly to the increase of life expectancy and not to the (inexistent) growth in fertility rate. Using a "rate equations" approach for the first time, they describe population trends and forecast the possibility of steps up (or down) in population rather than the exponential growth predicted by UN demographers around 1985 and thereafter. This book provides a new perspective that our planet is not overpopulated and could, in fact, house a considerably larger population.

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About the Author

Julio A. Gonzalo, Professor of Physics, Departamento de Fisica de Materiales:
Professor Gonzalo has lectured at several prestigious academic and research institutes around the world, and was organizer and chairman of several international conferences on ferroelectricity. His research interests include ferroelectricity, phase transitions as well as materials physics in general.

Basilio Jimenez, Research Director ICMM, Madrid:
Professor Jimenez is a member of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics and Spanish Materials Society. He has directed many Spanish and European Research Projects. His research interests include, among other things, ferro-piezoelectric materials.

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Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Company
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9813140992
ISBN 13 
9789813140998
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
176