Population, Environment and Development

Sinha (geography, Banaras Hindu U., India) brings together scholars from the US, Canada, the UK, Hungary, Romania, South Korea, Japan, and India in order to discuss research on the interaction between population, the environment, and development in various areas of the world largely from the disciplinary perspective of geography. Among the specific topics addressed are global aging and the rural health divide; the problems and prospects of the aging of the Baby Boomers in the US; the state of health of the Hungarian population in the period of post-communist transition; air pollution and urban environmental degradation in Ghaziabad in India; urban development policy in South Korea; patterns of urban living and quality of life in Bucharest, Romania, during the post-communist period; environment, population, and land use conflicts in the coastal savannah of Ghana; and people, environment, and development of the upper Ganga basin area in Uttarkhand, India. Distributed in North America by ISBS. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)