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Ageing and Environment: A Resource Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Robert E. Boote CVO
Robert E. Boote CVO
Affiliation:
Chairman, Age Resource, 1261 London Road, London SW16 4ER, England, UK; formerly Vice-President of IUCN; Director-General, UK Nature Conservancy Council, 1973-80
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Population pressures are major sources of environmental degradation. Population numbers, fertility rates, and the age composition of populations, interact with natural resources, ecological processes, and life-support systems.

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Main Papers
Information
Environmental Conservation , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , Winter 1990 , pp. 297 - 301
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1990

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* Less [including least] Developed and More [including Most] Developed Countries, respectively. In this paper these UN terms are used. LDCs broadly equate with the terms ‘Third World’ or ‘The South’, and MDCs with ‘Western Countries’ or ‘The North’.