"A treasure trove of resources for teachers that challenges us to question widely-held myths about power and wealth in the world. This book will strengthen every teacher's curriculum."
Bill Bigelow, co-editor, Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World

"Population in Perspective provides teachers with essential course content related to critical current issues within a highly structured but accessible construct of critical thinking methodology. It’s rare to find a curriculum guide that so clearly and ably speaks to teachers and their work. The teacher overviews, the checkpoints, the learning links are enormously helpful. The questions both engage and prompt the teacher as well as the students. This is a superior text focusing on essential topics for students in a global society and should also serve as a model for other curriculum guides."
Dr. Wendy Kohler, Executive Director for Program Development, Amherst Regional Schools

"Enlightens students’ minds and helps broaden their perspectives and global connections. All educators who strive to make our world better must have this as part of their tool box!"
Dawn Fontaine, high school Social Studies teacher, Springfield, Massachusetts

"The population, environment and development debate has at least three weaknesses. Poor women have been blamed for overpopulating the earth; luxury consumption has been ignored for the immense "ecological footprint" that it is; and appropriate technologies to reduce environmental degradation have not been a priority for investment and adoption.  This curriculum, Population in Perspective, redresses these weaknesses.  It provides an excellent teaching resource for teachers who are seeking to address the complexity of population, environment and development with enlightened ideas, analysis and exercises."
H.Patricia Hynes, Professor of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health

"Population in Perspective may have originally been conceived as a text for high school aged people, but I have found it very popular and useful at Oberlin College. Here, both my first year environmental studies students and more advanced students dealing with policy questions praised its clear organization, provocative boxed quotes, and case studies.  As an instructor I found it rich in facts and excellent short introductions to whole bodies of literature.  The small "Think Spots" here and there are powerful challenges that are unassuming in their Socratic modesty but which could set a graduate seminar off for days of discussion!  I can't recommend Population in Perspective highly enough to instructors and students from 16 to 106!"
Dr. Ben Wisner, Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies, Oberlin College

"One of the most enduring myths of our times is that the reproductive behavior of poor women, especially those in Third World countries, accounts not only for the terrible poverty in these countries, but also for a host of global problems: environmental destruction, war, and waves of immigration drowning the societies of the rich West, and so on. Population in Perspective brilliantly shatters these myths with rich data and reasoned arguments, separating the wheat of truth from the chaff of frequently racist ideology. I wish there were such resources in India too; the world would be a much better place to live in."
Mohan Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Author of From Population Control to Reproductive Health – Malthusian Arithmetic (Sage, New Delhi, 2004).