Foreword / Timothy E. Wirth
Introduction / Laurie Mazur
Human population grows up / Joel E. Cohen
The largest generation comes of age / Martha Farnsworth Riche
People on the move : population, migration, and the environment / Susan Gibbs
The urban millennium / United Nations Population Fund
Climate change and population growth / Brian C. O'Neill
Fair weather, lasting world / Robert Engelman
Adapting to climate change : the role of reproductive health / Malea Hoepf Young ... [et al.]
Population growth, ecosystem services, and human well-being / Lynne Gaffikin
Numbers matter : human population as a dynamic factor in environmental degradation / John Harte
Environmental justice in an urbanizing world / Gordon McGranahan
The new economics of population change / Rachel Nugent
Food : will there be enough? / Lester R. Brown
Understanding the global food crisis : Malthusian nightmare or free-trade fiasco? / Walden Bello
How much is left? an overview of the water crisis / Eleanor Sterling and Erin Vintinner
The biggest footprint : population and consumption in the United States / Vicky Markham
Population growth, reproductive health, and the future of Africa / Fred T. Sai
Cancún : paradise lost / Adriana Varillas
The flip side : how the environment impacts our reproductive health / Charlotte Brody and Julia Varshavsky
Cairo : the unfinished revolution / Carmen Barroso and Steven W. Sinding
The new population challenge / Judith Bruce and John Bongaarts
Rethinking U.S. population policy / Suzanne Petroni
Going to extremes : population politics and reproductive rights in Peru / Susana Chávez Alvarado with Jacqueline Nolley Echegaray
Mobilizing constituencies : achieving sexual reproductive health and rights for all / Adrienne Germain
Women at the center / Ellen Chesler
Taking stock : linking population, health, and the environment / Roger-Mark De Souza
From crisis to sustainability / James Gustave Speth
Reproductive rights are human rights / Jacqueline Nolley Echegaray and Shira Saperstein
Over-breeding and the population bomb : the reemergence of nativism and population control in anti-immigration policies / Priscilla Huang
Christian perspectives on population issues / James B. Martin-Schramm
Ecomorality : toward an ethic of sustainability / Ursula Goodenough
Reconciling differences : population, reproductive rights, and the environment / Frances Kissling
Afterword : work for justice? / Laurie Mazur and Shira Saperstein.