Centre for Science and Environment, The State of India's Environment 1984–85. New Delhi (1985). The calculation is drawn from Potential Population Supporting Capacities of Lands in the Developing World, fao, Rome (1983).
2.
NautiyalJ. C. and BaborP. S., Forestry in the Himalayas. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews10, 27 (1985).
3.
VohraB. B., Chairman, Advisory Board on Energy. ‘Our granaries are full only because some 300 millions of our people are too poor to be able to buy all the food they need.’ (Second Chatrapathy Rajamnar Memorial Oration on Environment, Bangalore (1987).)
4.
VohraB. B., ibid, ‘Our population is still increasing and, according to experts, will not stop growing till it has more than doubled and crossed the 1600 million mark. Our huge animal population is also increasing at the same rate.’
5.
India Today, Jan. 31 (1988).
6.
Over the years I have made it a point to question young couples on the amount of family planning instruction they received during their educational careers. The answer was invariably ‘None’ – except for one girl who had voluntarily attended a lecture given by a voluntary organisation.
7.
BhatiaB. M., Indian Agriculture: A Policy Perspective. New Delhi(Under the auspices of the Centre for Policy Research.) (1988).
8.
MartinsP. J. and NautiyalJ. C., Population supporting capacities: a case study in the central Himalayas. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews13, 312 (1988).
9.
ThaparR., A Utopian Change of Mind. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews13, 195 (1988).
