Теорията за населението и екологичните проблеми
The population theory and the ecologic problems

Summary/Abstract: The importance of demography has increased considerably as a result of the global environmental crisis. But the connection between the scientific questions of the ecology and population theory is older than the modern ecological discussion. In the classical population theories of J. P. Sussmilch (1741) and Th. R. Malthus (1798) ecological and demographical hypotheses were already indivisibly unified. As every scientific problem of importance the problems of population theory and human ecology have an ethical dimension. Both Boulding's "spaceship ethics" and Hardin's "lifeboat ethics" arque with demographic analyses and projections. In the controversy between these irreconcilable ethics conceptions demography should not be content with the role of simply helping the science of ecology: Population theory should rather return to its place at the centre of the interdisciplinary debate between the social and natural sciences that it once had in the classical era.

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