Reviews: The Great Australian Nightmare: A Critique of the Home-Ownership Ideology, Rental Housing in the 1980s, Quality of Life and Human Welfare: Proceedings of the Third Royal Scottish Geographical Society Symposium, Urban Inequalities under State Socialism, High Technology Small Firms: Innovation and Regional Development in Britain and the United States, Exploring Social Geography, Cities in the Developing World: Policies for Their Equitable and Efficient Growth, Federal Aid to Big Cities: The Politics of Dependence, Water Science and Technology, Volume 16 Numbers 1/2 and 3/4. Integration of Ecological Aspects in Coastal Engineering Projects

1985 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 569-580
Author(s):  
C Paris ◽  
M Harloe ◽  
A M Williams ◽  
F E I Hamilton ◽  
J W Harrington ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Small Firms ◽  
Home Ownership ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Social Geography ◽  
The United States ◽  
Federal Aid ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
Geographical Society ◽  
Ecological Aspects

Quality of Life and Human Welfare: Proceedings of the Third Royal Scottish Geographical Society Symposium, April 1982

1985 ◽  
Vol 151 (1) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
David Turnock ◽  
Michael Pacione ◽  
George Gordon ◽  
Huw R. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
Geographical Society ◽  
The Third ◽  
Society Symposium

Morality of Population Control of Bangladesh

1998 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Fahmina Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Resource Availability ◽  
Population Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Worth Living ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
Sole Criterion

The rapid rate of population growth in the last half of the present century causes anxiety about the future of humanity because the amount of resources needed to satisfy basic necessities is extremely large. Correspondingly, the satisfaction of basic needs cannot be the sole criterion of the good life. Human beings have a right to live a life composed of things that make life go best. The case of Bangladesh shows that the majority of people live a life barely worth living, a life morally undesirable. One major reason is the rapid increase in population. Bangladesh covers an area slightly less than that of the state of Illinois, but has a population that is roughly half of the total population of the United States. The quality of life is inexorably linked to population growth. Further, human welfare and the quality of life are closely linked to the availability of resources. Rapid increases in population growth reduces resource availability and often degrades the environment. At some point, regulation is needed to limit population growth in Bangladesh in order to maximize opportunities for living worthwhile lives both by present as well as future generations. I develop a moral viewpoint that justifies population control in Bangladesh.

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