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Population and the Environment: Analytical Demography and Applied Population Ethics/Closing remarks

From Complex Time

October 16, 2018
3:35 pm - 4:30 pm

Presenter

Sir Partha Dasgupta (Univ. Cambridge)

Abstract

Reproductive choices have economic implications for the family. This lecture will present an overview of contemporary fertility rates in rich and poor nations and identify economic explanations for the enormous difference between them. The idea of a global population enjoying a comfortable living standard while not further damaging the biosphere will be sketched numerically.

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