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		<title>Robert Engelman: Vietnam May Revisit Two-Child Population Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government of Vietnam will decide on December 22 whether to penalize parents who have more than two children, reinitiating a coercive population policy it abandoned in 2003.
&#8220;We are considering an adjustment to our policy appropriate to the circumstances of the country,&#8221; Truong Thi Mai, chair of Vietnam&#8217;s Parliamentary Committee of Social Affairs, confirmed on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Engelman: Less Mentioned in &#8220;More&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Keeping a book short is no easy task, especially on a set of topics as complex and controversial as population and the reproductive intentions of women. Now that I’m discussing my latest book, More, widely, and the publication is gaining some reviews (such as this one in The Washington Post), I’m developing a list of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Engelman: Egyptian Population Concerns - More of What Men Want</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/50/robert-engelman-egyptian-population-concerns-more-of-what-men-want</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people think policies aimed at slowing population growth are foisted on the developing world by heavy-handed industrialized countries. Actually, most population policies are home grown, and sometimes none the better for this. I have a hunch there’s not much gender diversity in the circles that develop them. And those who write about them often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Engelman: All-Consuming Question: Is Population or Behavior the Problem?</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/46/robert-engelman-all-consuming-question-is-population-or-behavior-the-problem</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Talking to reporters and others about More: Population, Nature, and What Women, I’m sometimes asked where consumption fits into the population picture. A book review in the intriguingly named magazine Bitch, for example, criticized the book for “failing to adequately distinguish between the individuals who are overpopulating the world and the individuals who are responsible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Engelman: “Oops” Pregnancies in High Places</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/40/robert-engelman-%e2%80%9coops%e2%80%9d-pregnancies-in-high-places</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 15:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[“Oops, I’m pregnant.”
Even in today’s age of safe and effective modern contraception, women in every society get pregnant when that wasn’t the plan. It’s a simple point I explore in More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want. In the wealthy and health-obsessed United States, for example, 49 percent of conceptions result in “oops” pregnancies. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Engelman: Population and Climate Change - Can We Talk?</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/36/robert-engelman-population-and-climate-change-can-we-talk</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 15:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL—The workshop I’ve been attending in this ancient city drew 31 people—ranging from a member of the British parliament to a Dutch women’s rights advocate to a Hungarian environmentalist—to talk about whether it makes sense to bring population into the global debate on climate change.
Tough question, given that most of the responsibility for human-induced global [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Engelman: Population, Nature, and What Cats Want</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/32/robert-engelman-population-nature-and-what-cats-want</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 15:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday evening my wife and I took our terminally ill cat to an animal hospital, where a veterinarian put him peacefully to sleep as he sat on my lap. I wasn’t really a cat lover when we adopted him seven years ago, but this unusually affectionate and communicative kitty cat converted me. I’m surprised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Engelman: The Malthus Question, Starting with Bob</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/17/the-malthus-question-starting-with-bob</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 00:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In last week’s blog post, I promised to wrestle with the time-honored Malthus Question: Does population growth outrun food supply? The old question is coming back as soaring food prices spark discontent, bread lines, and even riots around the world. I’ll try to answer this question decisively in the next 400 words.
Just kidding. Shelves heave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Engelman: In the Philippines, Less of What Women Want</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/7/in-the-philippines-less-of-what-women-want</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 23:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the dozens of countries around the world where hunger is back in the news is the Philippines, where soaring rice prices and long-standing reliance on imported food are raising an old question many people thought was buried for good: Does population growth eventually run into the limits of food production?
In More: Population, Nature, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Engelman: Comments on Population on Earth Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/6/author-robert-engelman-comments-on-population-on-earth-day</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 23:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS—People walking around the Sheraton Hotel here are talking about population as if it were the most natural conversation in the world. The topic interests me, so I join in. As it happens, I’ve written a book on it, just published by Island Press, which I don’t shrink from mentioning. Just being here, though, [...]]]></description>
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