História do Livro
Whet has Brazilian demography had to say about population and environment? Among world nations, Brazil has one of the greatest ecological and Ctural divesities Such diversity provides greater resilience to Bragilan development, with more degrees of freedom than most countries enjoy Such diversity also makes simple generalizations about consequences of population growth impossible. The first challenge for demographers was to develop approaches which did not simply extend run-of-the-mill neo-Malthusianiame the issue was not reducible to the pressure of numbers on resources, but the two dynamics, demographic and ecological, had important interactions which new, inasmuch as the environmental situation had changed so radicaly over the were 20th century and (2) had been largely unrecognized or ignored by demographers This process occurred at a moment when Brazil's demographic transition was entering a new phase and population stability was visible. This fact had two important implications for the development of this fieid.
On the one hand, it was now possible to separate consequences of rapid growth and identify environmental determinants and consequences of demographic phenomena. On the other hand, Brazilian (and in general, Latin American) demography, relaxing a decades-long resistance to the controlista view of the relations between population and development (given the waning of this view in international debate), was able to consider, as legitimate fields of research, themes which earlier had been regarded as mere apologies of such a view. The second challenge was to identify these interactions and search for concepts and methodologies capable of analyzing and explaining them. Much of the 1990s was given over to this task, mirroring developments at the international level. This work is examined in the chapters of this book.
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