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Environment, Health and Ageing

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Environmental Gerontology in Europe and Latin America

Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Aging ((Int. Perspect. Aging,volume 13))

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One of the founding fathers of modern demographic theory, Thomas Malthus, was fundamentally concerned with and about the interaction between population development, human welfare and the environment in as much as he famously argued that unrestrained population growth would be limited by fixed resources and an imbalance between population size and available resources would inevitably (if population remain unchecked) impact negatively on human welfare (Malthus 1798). More than 200 years after Malthus wrote his Essay on Population, scientists and policy makers remain concerned about the same interactions.

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Leeson, G.W. (2016). Environment, Health and Ageing. In: Sánchez-González, D., Rodríguez-Rodríguez, V. (eds) Environmental Gerontology in Europe and Latin America. International Perspectives on Aging, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21419-1_5

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