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1. symposium.

Author

Fornos, Werner and Mosher, Steven W.

Subjects
*BIRTH control, DEVELOPING countries
Abstract

Presents a debate over the role of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) in giving support to family planning services to poor countries. Amount of the money given by the U.S. to the UNFPA; Services of the fund; Discussion of population control.

Published
2001

2. Q: Should population control be a priority for the Third World?

Author

Fornos, Werner and Mosher, Stephen W.

Subjects
*BIRTH control, *POPULATION forecasting, *PUBLIC opinion
Abstract

Presents two viewpoints on prioritizing population control in the Third World. Evidence to show that population growth is still a significant issue; Key to implementing the Cairo Program of Action, as approved in the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development; Argument that fertility rates worldwide are falling below replacement; Contention that the United Nations Fund for Population Activities should focus on health care measures, not contraceptives.

Published
2000

3. No Vacancy.

Author

Fornos, Werner

Subjects
*POPULATION
Abstract

Focuses on population growth around the world. Suggestion that fertility rates have been declining rapidly; Impact that population growth has on a country's resources; How to combat rapid population growth; Reference made to the views of Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus on population growth; Criticism of his views.

Published
1998

4. The Environmental Crisis.

Author

Brown, Lester R. and Fornos, Werner

Subjects
*ENVIRONMENTAL impact analysis, *AIR pollution, *GLOBAL warming, *DEFORESTATION, *POLLUTION, *POPULATION, *HEALTH, *ECOLOGY, *ENVIRONMENTAL protection
Abstract

Examines the damage being done to the environment by man. Problems of global warming, ozone depletion, deforestation and overpopulation; Acid rain damage on every continent; Health-threatening levels of air pollution; Erosion of topsoil; Increase in size of deserts; Suggestions of ways to combat an environmental Armageddon.

Published
1991

5. Werner Fornos.

Author

Fornos, Werner

Subjects
*POPULATION, *HUMAN ecology, *ENVIRONMENTAL degradation, *DISASTERS, *URBAN growth
Abstract

Provides Werner Fornos' thoughts on population explosion. Danger in ignoring it; Disasters that human population is causing all over the world; Difficulty for Americans to recognize the destruction; Decline in forests and the erosion of soil; "Natural" disasters; Need for the U.S. to come to grips with this issue.

Published
1991

6. The Moral Implications of Our Population Policy.

Author

Fornos, Werner

Subjects
*POPULATION, *HUMAN ecology, *ENVIRONMENTAL risk assessment, *POPULATION dynamics, *BIRTH control, *HEALTH, DEVELOPING countries
Abstract

Discusses the growth in global population and the need for the United States to regain the moral high ground in the battle for effective family planning in the Third World. Poor health services and nutrition in developing countries; Correlation between rapid growth and poverty; Environmental consequences of rapid population growth.

Published
1987

7. Gaining People, Losing Ground.

Author

Fornos, Werner

Subjects
*POPULATION, *ECOLOGY, DEVELOPED countries, DEVELOPING countries
Abstract

Comments on the need for political reform to deal with rapid population growth and its effects on the environment. Dangers related to the population's outgrowing of its environmental resources; Assistance required from the industrialized world to aid developing nations with the problem of overpopulation; Environmental conditions and policies.

Published
1990

8. As Population Rises, So Does Poverty.

Author

Fornos, Werner and Chesler, Ellen

Subjects
*LETTERS to the editor, *DEMOGRAPHY
Abstract

Presents several letters to the editor in response to the article "Demographic "Bomb" May Only Go "Pop!" published in the August 2004 issue.

Published
2004

10. Global warming and population growth: Inseparable.

Author

Fornos, Werner

Subjects
*CLIMATE change
Abstract

Reports that global climate change will be discussed by United States President Bill Clinton at a special session of the United Nations General Assembly. Rise in global temperatures; Pledge by former president George Bush to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000; What contributes to global climate change.

Published
1997

11. Needed: Family planning funds.

Author

Fornos, Werner

Subjects
UNITED States appropriations & expenditures
Abstract

Opinion. Argues that the method of dispensing international population assistance by the United States is detrimental to United States program efforts. Role Congress has played in this; Findings of the World Health Organization (WHO); Actions that Congress should take to improve aid to the world's poorest nations.

Published
1997

12. The food crisis won't be solved without stabilizing world...

Author

Fornos, Werner

Subjects
*FOOD, *CONFERENCES & conventions
Abstract

Opinion. Discusses the 1996 World Food Summit called by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, to address the crisis of food security. What Food Summit should go beyond; Scheduled date for plan of action to eliminate hunger; Plan of action not fast enough; Further information on plan of action.

Published
1996

13. Bright lights, megacities.

Author

Fornos, Werner

Subjects
*OVERPOPULATION
Abstract

Opinion. Comments on the need for the United Nations' (UN) Habitat II conference to focus on issues relating overpopulation. Statistics depicting worldwide overpopulation; Problems identified as resulting from overpopulation; Factors that contribute to overpopulation; Merits of the UN conference.

Published
1996

14. Congress's quixotic stance on China, family planning.

Author

Fornos, Werner

Subjects
*BIRTH control, *FINANCE
Abstract

Opinion. Focuses on the need of the US Congress to re-start its funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in order to help out countries like China having a high population rate. Debate in the Congress on the issue.

Published
1995

15. Don't cut population funding.

Author

Fornos, Werner

Subjects
*FOREIGN aid (American)
Abstract

Details about US contribution to United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Stands of various US presidents on the issue; Chapters of pre-Clinton US policy towards UNFPA.

Published
1995

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