'Building the Population Bomb' carefully examines how the rise of the world's human population came to be understood as problematic by scientists and government

Although Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) is often cited as the founding text of the U.S. environmental movement, in The Malthusian Moment Thomas Robertso

Cities out of control.

This anthology provides an historical overview of the scientific ideas behind environmental prediction and how, as predictions about environmental change have b