GITA SEN 1
Women, Poverty & Population:
Issues for the Concerned
Environmentalist
Differences in perceptions regarding the linkages between population and environment became particularly acute during the preparatory build-up to the UN Conference on Environment and Development, variously known as the Earth Summit and Rio 92. Disagreement between Southern and Northern countries on the extent of attention to be given to population received considerable publicity. At the non-governmental level too, the issue of population has been, of late, a subject of considerable debate among environmentalists (especially those from the North), feminists and population lobbyists.
The basis of these differences often appears baffling; the apparent lack of willingness to compromise, or to acknowledge the obvious merits of opposing views seems to indicate a lack of analytical rigour. The debate appears, to some at least, to be based on passionately held but ultimately ephemeral differences. I wish to argue that, although the positions taken in the policy debate have been exagger
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Publication information:
Book title: Green Planet Blues:Environmental Politics from Stockholm to Tyoto.
Edition: 2nd.
Contributors: Ken Conca - Editor, Geoffrey D. Dabelko - Editor, Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda - OrganizationName.
Publisher: Westview Press.
Place of publication: Boulder, CO.
Publication year: 1998.
Page number: 328.
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