World Population Shifts: Boom or Doom? (Plastics Engineering)

Preliminaries......Page 1
PREFACE......Page 2
SUMMARY......Page 3
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 6
World Population Shifts......Page 8
Thesis......Page 9
Overview......Page 10
Where Are We Now?......Page 11
How Did We Get There?......Page 12
Model of Demographic Transition......Page 13
Key Contributions of the Model......Page 15
Structural Changes......Page 17
Behavioral Changes......Page 18
Where Does The World Stand?......Page 20
Population Growth Will Be Concentrated......Page 22
Overview......Page 23
Demographic Pressures......Page 24
Comparison of Ages Structures......Page 26
Structural Pressures......Page 28
Possible Responses by Developed Countries......Page 29
Potential Implications......Page 31
Overview......Page 33
Using the U.S. as a Model......Page 34
Central Questions About Immigration......Page 35
Key Findings......Page 37
Overview......Page 38
Malthus and the Desirability of Technological Change......Page 39
Are Economic Growth and a Clean Environment Compatible?......Page 41
Conclusions (1)......Page 44
Conclusions (2)......Page 46