Authors : Sujay Rao Mandavilli

Volume/Issue : Volume 10 - 2025, Issue 8 - August

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt/25aug764

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Abstract : The objective of this paper is to throw further light on a hot-button topic, namely population management, and to explain why context and situation-based approaches to population management are indeed required. We also stress and emphasize the need to integrate population management frameworks with sustainability and environmental management frameworks. In sum, no one size fits all approaches are ever possible, and there are many different ways to address shrinking and declining populations as we had previously discussed. Low populations may not therefore be a veritable catastrophe as it is in the case of entirely consumption-driven economies such as the USA. India is ten times more densely populated that the USA, plus it sits on a dangerous global warming hotspot. There is plenty of reserve and underutilized labour in India, plus chronic underemployment which must be differentiated from unemployment. Indian cities are also congested and bursting at their seams due to population pressure. Measures to boost fertility rates through artificial means have virtually failed in every part of the world. Therefore, we argue and believe that improving education systems and leveraging human potential is the only viable and feasible approach. We also reference all our previous publications on education and pedagogy to draw attention of planers towards the urgent and unmet need for pedagogical reform.

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