Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Harold Coward Part I: Baseline Analysis 2. The Natural Background F. Kenneth Hare 3. The Human Context Anne Whyte Part II: Religious Responses 4. Aboriginal Spirituality, Population, and the Environment Daisy Sewid-Smith 5. Judaism, Population, and the Environment Sharon Joseph Levy 6. A Christian Response to the Population Apocalypse Catherine Keller 7. Islam, Population, and the Environment: A Textual and Juristic View Nawal H. Ammar 8. Hinduism, Population, and the Environment Klaus K. Klostermaier 9. Buddhist Resources for Issues of Population, Consumption, and the Environment Rita M. Gross 10. Chinese Religions, Population, and the Environment Jordan Paper and Li Chuang Paper Part III: Secular Responses 11. Prescriptions from Religious and Secular Ethics for Breaking the Impoverishment/Environmental Degradation Cycle Michael McDonald 12. Projected Population Patterns, North-South Relations, and the Environment Mahendra K. Premi 13. Environmental Degradation and the Religion of the Market A. Rodney Dobell 14. Ethics, Family Planning, Status of Women, and the Environment Jael M. Silliman 15. International Law, Population Pressure, and the Environment Elizabeth A. Adjin-Tettey 16. The Northern Consumption Issue after Rio and the Role of Religion and Environmentalism Yuichi Inoue Part IV: Conclusions 17. Conclusions and Recommendations Harold Coward About the Contributors Index

About the Author

Harold Coward is Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. He is the author of Derrida and Indian Philosophy and Jung and Eastern Thought; editor of Modern Indian Responses to Religious Pluralism; and co-editor of Derrida and Negative Theology and Hindu Ethics: Purity, Abortion, and Euthanasia, all published by SUNY Press.