This book brings together in a single volume a grand overview of solutions - political
economic and scientific - to social and environmental problems that are related to the growth
of human populations in areas that can least cope with them now. Through progressive adaptation
to social and environmental changes projected for the future including population growth
global warming climate change water deficits and increasing competition for other natural
resources the world may be able to achieve a fair degree of sustainability for some time into
the future.
