The Environmental Implications of Population Dynamics

The Environmental Implications of Population Dynamics
Author: Lori M. Hunter
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2000
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780833043689

This report discusses the relationship between population and environmental change, the forces that mediate this relationship, and how population dynamics specifically affect climate change and land-use change.

International Handbook of Population and Environment

International Handbook of Population and Environment
Author: Lori M. Hunter
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2022-03-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030764338

This handbook presents a timely and comprehensive overview of theory, data, methods and research findings that connect human population dynamics and environmental context. It presents regional summaries of empirical findings on migration and environmental connections and summarizes environmental impacts of migration – such as urbanization and deforestation. It also offers background on the health implications of environmental conditions such as climate change, natural disasters, scarcity of natural resources, as well as on resource scarcity and fertility, gender considerations in population and environment, and the connections between population size, growth, composition and carbon emissions. This handbook helps readers to better understand the complexities within population-environment connections, in addition to some of the opportunities and challenges within environmental demography. As such this collection is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and policy analysts in the areas of demography, migration, fertility, health and mortality, as well as environmental, global and development studies.

Population, Agriculture, and Biodiversity

Population, Agriculture, and Biodiversity
Author: J. Perry Gustafson
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2020-05-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0826274404

This timely collection of 15 original essays written by expert scientists the world over addresses the relationships between human population growth, the need to increase food supplies to feed the world population, and the chances for avoiding the extinction of a major proportion of the world's plant and animal species that collectively makes our survival on Earth possible. These relationships are highly intertwined, and changes in each of them steadily decrease humankind’s chances to achieve environmental stability on our fragile planet. The world population is projected to be nine to ten billion by 2050, signaling the need to increase world food production by more than 70 percent on the same amount of land currently under production—and this without further damaging our fragile environment. The essays in this collection, written by experts for laypersons, present the problems we face with clarity and assess our prospects for solving them, calling for action but holding out viable solutions.

Population, Land Use, and Environment

Population, Land Use, and Environment
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2005-10-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0309096553

Population, Land Use, and Environment: Research Directions offers recommendations for future research to improve understanding of how changes in human populations affect the natural environment by means of changes in land use, such as deforestation, urban development, and development of coastal zones. It also features a set of state-of-the-art papers by leading researchers that analyze population-land useenvironment relationships in urban and rural settings in developed and underdeveloped countries and that show how remote sensing and other observational methods are being applied to these issues. This book will serve as a resource for researchers, research funders, and students.

Population Dynamics and Climate Change

Population Dynamics and Climate Change
Author: José Miguel Guzmán
Publisher: UN
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2009
Genre: Law
ISBN:

This book broadens and deepens understanding of a wide range of population-climate change linkages. Incorporating population dynamics into research, policymaking and advocacy around climate change is critical for understanding trajectory of global greenhouse gas emissions, for developing and implementing adaptation plans and thus for global and national efforts to curtail this threat. The papers in this volume provide a substantive and methodological guide to the current state of knowledge on issues such as population growth and size and emissions; population vulnerability and adaptation linked to health, gender disparities and children; migration and urbanization; and the data and analytical needs for the next stages of policy-relevant research.

The Limits to Growth

The Limits to Growth
Author: Donella H. Meadows
Publisher: Universe Pub
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1972
Genre: Economic development.
ISBN: 9780876632222

Examines the factors which limit human economic and population growth and outlines the steps necessary for achieving a balance between population and production. Bibliogs

Population and Land Use in Developing Countries

Population and Land Use in Developing Countries
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 174
Release: 1993-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0309048389

This valuable book summarizes recent research by experts from both the natural and social sciences on the effects of population growth on land use. It is a useful introduction to a field in which little quantitative research has been conducted and in which there is a great deal of public controversy. The book includes case studies of African, Asian, and Latin American countries that demonstrate the varied effects of population growth on land use. Several general chapters address the following timely questions: What is meant by land use change? Why are ecological research and population studies so different? What are the implications for sustainable growth in agricultural production? Although much work remains to be done in quantifying the causal connections between demographic and land use changes, this book provides important insights into those connections, and it should stimulate more work in this area.