Population growth environment and development: issues impacts and responses.

This is a collection of papers presented at two interdisciplinary conferences held at the Banaras Hindu University in India in April 1988 and February-March 1989 on problems related to the rapid rate of population growth in developing countries. Section 1 examines population growth in India and other developing countries. Section 2 focuses on population growth and environmental issues including climatic changes and contains papers on Nepal Bangladesh and India. Section 3 examines population projections and characteristics with the primary focus on India. Section 4 looks at policy responses to these issues with a focus on India.