The Environmental Implications of Population Dynamics
Title | The Environmental Implications of Population Dynamics PDF eBook |
Author | Lori M. Hunter |
Publisher | Rand Corporation |
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.
Population Dynamics and Climate Change
Title | Population Dynamics and Climate Change PDF eBook |
Author | José Miguel Guzmán |
Publisher | UN |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Law |
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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.
Population, Land Use, and Environment
Title | Population, Land Use, and Environment PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
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.
International Handbook of Population and Environment
Title | International Handbook of Population and Environment PDF eBook |
Author | Lori M. Hunter |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
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 and Environment Linkages
Title | Population and Environment Linkages PDF eBook |
Author | C. P. Prakasam |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
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Contributed articles presented at the Seminar on "Population Environment Nexus" organized by the POP-ENVIS Centre at IIPS, Mumbai on Oct. 21, 2005; with reference to India.
U.S. Health in International Perspective
Title | U.S. Health in International Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 421 |
Release | 2013-04-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0309264146 |
The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United States have improved dramatically over the past century, Americans live shorter lives and experience more injuries and illnesses than people in other high-income countries. The U.S. health disadvantage cannot be attributed solely to the adverse health status of racial or ethnic minorities or poor people: even highly advantaged Americans are in worse health than their counterparts in other, "peer" countries. In light of the new and growing evidence about the U.S. health disadvantage, the National Institutes of Health asked the National Research Council (NRC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a panel of experts to study the issue. The Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries examined whether the U.S. health disadvantage exists across the life span, considered potential explanations, and assessed the larger implications of the findings. U.S. Health in International Perspective presents detailed evidence on the issue, explores the possible explanations for the shorter and less healthy lives of Americans than those of people in comparable countries, and recommends actions by both government and nongovernment agencies and organizations to address the U.S. health disadvantage.
Population and Climate Change
Title | Population and Climate Change PDF eBook |
Author | Brian C. O'Neill |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2005-09-29 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780521018029 |
Population and Climate Change provides the first systematic in-depth treatment of links between two major themes of the 21st century: population growth (and associated demographic trends such as aging) and climate change. It is written by a multidisciplinary team of authors from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis who integrate both natural science and social science perspectives in a way that is comprehensible to members of both communities. The book will be of primary interest to researchers in the fields of climate change, demography, and economics. It will also be useful to policy-makers and NGOs dealing with issues of population dynamics and climate change, and to teachers and students in courses such as environmental studies, demography, climatology, economics, earth systems science, and international relations.