Science with a Human Face

In Honor of Roger Randall Revelle

Edited by Robert Dorfman

Edited by Peter Rogers

    Acknowledgements

    Preface

    Memoir: How Roger Revelle Became Interested in Population and Development Problems
    Jerome B. Wiesner, President Emeritus, MIT

    Introduction

    Part One: Earth Sciences

    Slow Reactions and Old Seawater
    Edward D. Goldberg

    Global Ocean Warming
    Walter Munk

    Part Two: Environment and Development

    On Sustainability
    Robert Dorfman

    America's Changing Environment Revisited
    Hans H. Landsberg

    Population and Environmental Deterioration: A Comparison of Conventional Models and a New Paradigm
    Peter P. Rogers

    Part Three: Population Sciences

    The "Revelle Report" on Rapid Population Growth: A 1971 Diagnosis and Prescription Revisited
    Paul Demeny

    Mortality and the Fate of Communist States
    Nicholas Eberstadt

    Body Weight, Body Fat and Ovulation: Relation to the Natural Fertility of Populations
    Rose R. Frisch

    A Renewable Resource Considered as Capital
    Nathan Keyfitz

    Malthusian Scenarios and Demographic Catastrophism
    Geoffrey McNicoll

    Population, Constraint and Adaptation: A Historical Outlook
    Massimo Livi-Bacci

    Appendices

    Revelle Biographical Sketch

    Addendum: Revelle at Harvard and Later

    Principal Publications of Roger Revelle

    Roger Revelle Memorial Symposium Participant List

    Authors' Biographies

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Peter Rogers is Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering and Professor of City Planning at Harvard University.