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Population size and growth poses an ecological riddle that has persisted throughout human history.

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  1. Department of Marketing and Management, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Jo. M. Martins & Fei Guo

  2. Department of Sociology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA

    David A. Swanson

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Martins, J.M., Guo, F., Swanson, D.A. (2018). Population and the Environment. In: Global Population in Transition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77362-9_11

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