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Overpopulation

Here are entered general works on overpopulation. Works restricted to overpopulation in a particular place are entered under the name of the place with the subdivision Population. Some general works on overpopulation cataloged before 1993 may be found under the heading Population.

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• Population

• Overpopulation -- Environmental aspects
• Overpopulation -- Fiction

• Population explosion
• Human overpopulation

• Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge (c1999), by Lester R. Brown, Gary T. Gardner, and Brian Halweil (PDF with commentary at worldwatch.org)
• Too Many Babies? A Marxist Answer to Some Frightening Questions (New York: Pioneer Publishers, ca. 1960), by Joseph Hansen (PDF at flvc.org)

• Water and Population Dynamics: Case Studies and Policy Implications, ed. by Alex De Sherbinin and Victoria Dompka (HTML at AAAS)

• This Crowded Earth (as published in Amazing Stories, 1958), by Robert Bloch, illust. by Virgil Finlay (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Master of Life and Death (New York: Ace Books, c1957), by Robert Silverberg (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• World Population and Economic Development (reprinted from the Dept. of State Bulletin; Dept. of State publication 7033 (Economic cooperation series #59); 1960), by Francis O. Wilcox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Population Explosion (Headline Series #120; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1956), by Karl Sax (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Essay on the Principle of Population (based on the first edition, 1798), by T. R. Malthus
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at Michigan
  • text at McMaster
  • Gutenberg text
• An Essay on the Principle of Population (sixth edition, 1826), by T. R. Malthus (HTML at econlib.org)
• Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic, by William Petty (Gutenberg text)
• The Ultimate Resource II: People, Materials, and Environment, by Julian Lincoln Simon (text files at juliansimon.com)
• Man and Food: The Lost Equation? (with "Food and Diplomacy" by Bolles; Headline Series #73; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1949), by C. Lester Walker, contrib. by Blair Bolles (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Human Population, Biodiversity and Protected Areas: Science and Policy Issues, ed. by Victoria Dompka (HTML at AAAS)

• The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind (New York: Universe Books, 1972), by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William Behrens (multiple formats with commentary at donellameadows.org)

• Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge (c1999), by Lester R. Brown, Gary T. Gardner, and Brian Halweil (PDF with commentary at worldwatch.org)

• Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors (2006), ed. by Alan D. Lopez, Colin D. Mathers, Majid Ezzati, Dean T. Jamison, and Christopher J. L. Murray (HTML and PDF files at NIH)

• Aging in the Past: Demography, Society, and Old Age (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), ed. by David I. Kertzer and Peter Laslett (HTML at UC Press)

• Standardization and Decomposition of Rates: A User's Manual (Current Population Reports Special Studies P23-186; Washington: Bureau of the Census, 1993), by Prithwis Das Gupta
  • PDF with commentary at census.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats with Google

• Atlas of Global Development (third edition, c2011), by World Bank (Javascript-dependent page images at issuu.com)

• Urbanization and Growth (Washington: Commission on Growth and Development; World Bank, c2009), ed. by Michael Spence, Patricia Clarke Annez, and Robert M. Buckley (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)
• Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1964), by Jean Gottmann (PDF files at MIT)
• A Communications Theory of Urban Growth (Cambridge, MA: Pub. for the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University by MIT Press, 1962), by Richard L. Meier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Metropolitan Area as a Racial Problem (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1958), by Morton Grodzins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Growth of Cities, by Henry Philip Tappan (page images at MOA)

• Bridging Silos: Collaborating for Environmental Health and Justice in Urban Communities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019), by Katrina Smith Korfmacher (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Millennials and Mobility: Understanding the Millennial Mindset and New Opportunities for Transit Providers (with survey instrument and data sets; 2013), by Neela Sakaria and Natalie Stehfest (PDF and Excel diles at trb.org)

• Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge (c1999), by Lester R. Brown, Gary T. Gardner, and Brian Halweil (PDF with commentary at worldwatch.org)
• The Interest of Great Britain Considered With Regard to Her Colonies and the Acquisitions of Canada and Guadaloupe; To Which Are Added, Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, &c. (generally attributed to Franklin, and sometimes to Jackson; Boston: Reprinted by B. Mecom, 1760), by Benjamin Franklin, contrib. by Richard Jackson (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The Interest of Great Britain Considered With Regard to Her Colonies and the Acquisitions of Canada and Guadaloupe; To Which Are Added, Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, &c. (second Boston edition, generally attributed to Franklin, and sometimes to Jackson; Boston: Reprinted by B. Mecom, 1760), by Benjamin Franklin, contrib. by Richard Jackson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Demographic Change in Sub-Saharan Africa (1993), ed. by Karen A. Foote, Kenneth H. Hill, and Linda G. Martin (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Asian Cross-Border Marriage Migration: Demographic Patterns and Social Issues (2010), ed. by Wen-Shan Yang and Melody Chia-Wen Lu (page images at Google)

• The People of Atlanta: A Demographic Study of Georgia's Capital City (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1950), by C. A. McMahan (PDF at Georgia)

• Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs: Threatened Reproduction and Identity in the Cameroon Grassfields (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), by Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report on the Condition of the Lower Classes of Population in Bengal (Kolkata: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1888), by Bengal (India)
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Hungarian Minorities in the Carpathian Basin: A Study in Ethnic Geography, by Karoly Kocsis and Eszter Kocsis-Hodosi (HTML at Corvinus Library)

• The Beverages of the Chinese; Gongfu; or, Tauist Medical Gymnastics; The Population of China; A Modern Chinese Anatomist; and A Chapter in Chinese Surgery (Tianjin: Tientsin Press, 1895), by John Dudgeon (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Data Practices: Making Up a European People (London: Goldsmiths Press, c2021), ed. by Evelyn Sharon Ruppert and Stephan Scheel (PDF with commentary at Goldsmiths Press)

• La Force Noire (in French; Paris: Hachette et cie, 1910), by Charles Mangin
  • page images at Gallica
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Population and Utilization of Land and Sea in Hawaii, 1853 (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #88; Honolulu: The Museum, 1931), by John Wesley Coulter (page images at HathiTrust)

• Changing Numbers, Changing Needs: American Indian Demography and Public Health (1996), by Gary D. Sandefur, Ronald R. Rindfuss, and Barney Cohen (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Making Health Work: Human Growth in Modern Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), by Carl Mosk (HTML at UC Press)

• Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic, by William Petty (Gutenberg text)

• The New York State Military Census and Inventory: A Report to Hon. Charles S. Whitman, Governor of the State of New York, 1917 (Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Co., 1918), by New York State Military Census Bureau
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Population Dynamics of Senegal (1995), by National Research Council Committee on Population (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Immigration: The Demographic and Economic Facts (Washington: Cato Institute, National Immigration Forum, et al., c1995), by Julian Lincoln Simon (PDF at ed.gov)
• Estimates of Future Population of the United States, 1940-2000 (Washington: GPO, 1943), by Warren Simpson Thompson and Pascal K. Whelpton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Series of Population Maps of the Colonies and the United States, 1625-1790 (American Geographical Society mimeographed publication #3; 1940), by Herman R. Friis (page images at HathiTrust; one folded map may be unavailable)
• The Interest of Great Britain Considered With Regard to Her Colonies and the Acquisitions of Canada and Guadaloupe; To Which Are Added, Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, &c. (generally attributed to Franklin, and sometimes to Jackson; Boston: Reprinted by B. Mecom, 1760), by Benjamin Franklin, contrib. by Richard Jackson (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The Interest of Great Britain Considered With Regard to Her Colonies and the Acquisitions of Canada and Guadaloupe; To Which Are Added, Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, &c. (second Boston edition, generally attributed to Franklin, and sometimes to Jackson; Boston: Reprinted by B. Mecom, 1760), by Benjamin Franklin, contrib. by Richard Jackson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Data on the Virgin Islands of the United States: Growth and Change: A Workbook for Long-term Planning (St. Thomas, VI: Bureau of Public Administration, College of the Virgin Islands, 1980), by Peter E. Pflaum (page images at dloc.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.