Family planning programs may have long-run consequences for families and economic development, in addition to fertility reduction, but these consequences have not been adequately assessed. Malthus foresaw that slowing population growth would increase wages. The UN 1994 Population Conference in Cairo concluded that family planning enhanced women’s health and empowerment, which were also objectiv...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the divergence of views of Marxand Malthus regarding the family and the labour market. The paperanalyses the divergences between them, as well as their common features.The main divergence is the way in which the two see the interactionbetween man and nature. We show that their divergence of views, and thespecific difference in percepti...

This is the first of two articles on the steepening challenges which confront global agriculture, food security and hence nutrition and population health. The recent deterioration in global food security has caught most experts by surprise. While the Asia Pacific region as a whole has so far fared reasonably well, there should be no complacency about medium to long term food security in the reg...

O presente artigo tem como principal objetivo compreender o motivo pelo qual crescimento populacional é visto uma “ameaça” ao equilíbrio ambiental e bem-estar da população. Do ponto de vista metodológica, fez uso pesquisa do tipo exploratória-qualitativa. Isso posto, foi possível concluir que os resultados alcançados através processo transição demográfica no mundo, bem nível cenário atual, indi...

O mundo passa por constantes transformações e, consequentemente, evoluções melhorando o bem-estar social. Mas, para que essas continuem ocorrendo é necessário parar um pouco e entender processo. Reflexões como: Recursos naturais são finitos, será consumo de hoje não influencia futuro? Será as ações vou impactar gerações futuras? A forma consumimos sustentável a médio longo prazo? Essas algumas ...

The Enlightened Movement in Spain is widely known for its modernizing effort and economic social reform projects the 18th 19th centuries. In line with European Enlightenment, ideals of classical liberalism utilitarianism began to spread hand enlightened intellectuals as a paradigm towards well-being people.
 anthropocentric turn Enlightenment brought it not only struggle rights man consequ...

Prof. Kelly FRS is optimistic about the chances of avoiding a collapse, but sadly we find his arguments entirely unpersuasive. For example, have Malthus (or we) really been wrong about food security? Roughly 850 million people are seriously undernourished (lacking sufficient calories) today, and perhaps 2 billion are mal-nourished (lacking one or more essential nutrients) [1]. When Malthus live...