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Nature Environmental Conservation & Protection

Population Growth, Resource Consumption, and the Environment

Seeking a Common Vision for a Troubled World

by (author) Rick Searle

edited by Harold Coward

Publisher
Centre for Studies in Religion and Society
Initial publish date
Jan 2006
Category
Environmental Conservation & Protection, Natural Resources, Environmental Policy
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780889206144
    Publish Date
    Jan 2006
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550580648
    Publish Date
    Mar 1995
    List Price
    $34.95

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A public-policy summary of the academic chapters presented at the 1993 Whistler Conference “Population, Consumption and the Environment” in which scholars from the world religions and the aboriginal traditions, as well as scientists, demographers, philosophers and economists from Canada, the U.S., Africa, Japan and India examined the double-sided problem of population pressure and excess consumption, and the resulting degradation of the environment.

About the authors

Rick Searle is a science writer and teaches Geography at the University of Victoria.

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Harold Coward is a scholar of international reputation with distinguished contributions to both the University of Victoria and University of Calgary throughout his extensive career. After retiring from the University of Victoria as director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, he continues to be involved as a research fellow. He is currently a member of the Genome BC Board of Directors, where he serves as a specialist on ethics and biotechnology. In June 2002, Dr. Coward was also selected as one of the twenty-five power thinkers in British Columbia by BC Business Magazine.

Leslie S. Kawamura is an Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Calgary, Alberta. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, in Far Eastern Studies (1974). He has studied at the Kyoto University (Japan) and has taught at the Nyingma Institute (Berkeley), Institute of Buddhist Studies (Berkeley), and the University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon). His publications include Mind in Buddhist Psychology (with H.V. Guenther, Dharma Press, 1975) and Golden Zephyr (Dharma Press, 1975). He was a founding member of the Honpa Buddhist Church of Alberta and the Canada-Mongolia Society.

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