Consumption, population, and sustainability : perspectives from science and religion / edited by Audrey R. Chapman, Rodney L. Petersen, Barbara Smith-Moran.

Washington, D.C. : Island Press, [2000], ©2000.

xi, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Science, religion, and the environment / Audrey R. Chapman -- Perspectives on sustainability / Ian G. Barbour -- Overview of scientific perspectives / Audrey R. Chapman -- World population projections to 2150 / U.N. Population Division -- Population growth and earth's human carrying capacity / Joel E. Cohen -- Revisiting carrying capacity: area-based indicators of sustainability / William E. Rees -- U.S. consumption and the environment / Michael Brower and Warren Leon -- Overview of religious perspectives / Audrey R. Chapman -- World religions and the 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development / United Nations -- A Catholic perspective / David M. Byers -- Foundations for a Jewish ethic regarding consumption / Michael Fox Smart -- A Greek Orthodox perspective / Emmanuel Clapsis -- An Islamic perspective / Abdul Cader Asmal and Mohammed Asmal -- Toward the revival and reform of the subversive virtue: frugality / James A. Nash -- Overview of perspectives on ethics and public policy / Audrey R. Chapman -- Report of the 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development / United Nations -- Consumption and well-being / David A. Crocker -- Population, consumption, and eco-justice: a moral assessment of the 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development / James B. Martin-Schramm -- The transition to a transition / Neva R. Goodwin -- Christian responses to coercion in population regulation / Susan Power Bratton -- To protect the whole of creation / Bruce Babbitt -- Earth literacy for theology / Mary Evelyn Tucker -- Envisioning equity in consumption, population, and sustainability / Rodney L. Petersen.