Population and Development: A Critical Introduction is a book by the Hungarian sociologist Frank Furedi, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 1997 (ISBN 0312176589)

Contents

Introduction

Chapters

1. The numbers game
   1. Competitive fertility
   2. Themes in demographic discourse
   3. A silent discourse
2. Does population growth matter?
   1. What kind of a relationship?
   2. The isolation effect
   3. Isolating the individual
   4. Social policy and reproduction
3. Population and North-South relations
   1. The power of numbers
   2. The silence of race
   3. North-South population tensions: the Cold War and after
   4. The argument
4. Forging the connection between population and development
   1. Demography's influence on the meaning of development
   2. Rapid development as a solution to high fertility
   3. Population growth as an obstacle to development
   4. Isolating traditional culture
   5. An intellectual impasse
   6. Early hesitations
5. Development and population growth
   1. The Coale-Hoover thesis
   2. The battle over the population agenda
   3. The post-Bucharest consensus
   4. The quiet shift from development
6. Influencing fertility: modernisation without development
7. Targeting women
   1. The discovery of women
   2. Educating women
   3. Propaganda for influencing fertility
8. Environmentalism to the rescue
   1. Reinventing Malthus
   2. The link between population and the environment
9. Conclusions: population and development discourse - the parting of the ways
   1. Who is planning whose family?
   2. Development and the Cairo consensus

External links

• Frank Furedi

  Official website

• Palgrave Macmillan

  Official website