نقد بيانيه « نشست صاحبنظران جمعيتي جهان در دهلي نو ،1993»

"Statement of The World Population Experts Summit, New Delhi 1993", A Brief look and Critiques

The global population increase and the worries caused by its effects on the environment have attracted the attention of many scholars in various disciplines. Scientific achievements have resulted in a decline in mortality rates and prolongation of the human life span, and also intensified the utilization rates of natural resources. Today, nature is changing more rapidly than in ancient times. Optimistic views concerning population and its growth dominating in the 1940s and 1950s were gradually revised from the 60s and early 70s due to an increasing awareness about the consequences of economic growth on the environment and preserving the quality of the environment received a great attention against the economic growth. The interests in environmental problems resulted in a revision of most of the concepts concerning economic growth theories and ultimately lead to the sustainable development concept. In order to achieve universal population policy; many, specialized scientific and political summits have been held since 1970 and scientists and experts of various disciplines as well as political leaders participated in collaboration with the U.N. to provide a common ground for scientific and research collaboration among members of the scientific academies of 60 countries and also to present a framework for 1994 Cairo population conference, the 1993 New Delhi summit was held. This article aims to investigate and criticize the final resolution of the summit.