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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
K D Cocks |
ISBN: | 0868402478 9780868402475 |
OCLC Number: | 36923232 |
Description: | xvii, 347 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
Contents: | 1. Historical background to the population debate -- 2. Australia's demographic choices -- 3. The politics of population and immigration policy -- 4. Economic arguments about population size -- 5. Resource availability arguments about population size -- 6. Evironmental quality arguments about population size -- 7. Social (dis)benefit arguments about population size -- 8. International arguments about Australia's population size -- 9. Risk avoidance and voodoo arguments about population size -- 10. Overview of arguments about population size -- 11. Options for an Australian population policy -- 12. Complementary policies -- 13. The long view -- learning to adapt -- 14. Take-home messages -- Appendix 1. Jones Inquiry submissions -- Appendix 2. Demographic terminology. |
Responsibility: | Doug Cocks. |
Abstract:
Cooks, a researcher and writer on environmental issues, believes that there are too many people in Australia, and that Australia's population growth can be stabilized in a generation or so by reducing net migration into the country to a few tens of thousands per annum. He supports his environmental,
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