Urbanization: An Environmental Force to Be Reckoned With
(2004) Human beings have become an increasingly powerful environmental force over the last 10,000 years. With the advent of agriculture 8,000 years ago, we began to change the land.1
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2011 Human Development Report Links Environmental Degradation and Inequality
(2011) The United Nations Development Programme's 2011 Human Development Report examines the relationship between environmental degradation and inequality. Environmental challenges increase inequality, while inequalities in human development such as income, health, and education can further strain the environment.
Project: American Community Survey and Decennial Census Support Services
Children Are at the Forefront of U.S. Racial and Ethnic Change
(2020) The U.S. population is undergoing rapid racial and ethnic change, led by growth of the Hispanic/Latino and Asian American populations. For policymakers and others, keeping track of these changes is important because some racial and ethnic groups are faring worse than others.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Fostering Economic Growth, Equity, and Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Family Planning
This report explores how family planning could and should play a much larger role in Africa’s future through strengthening global competitiveness, advancing equitable growth, and building resilience against natural and manmade stressors and shocks.
Social Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Disasters
Susan Cutter is a distinguished professor of geography at the University of South Carolina where she directs the Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute. Cutter researches what makes people and the places where they live vulnerable to extreme events such as hurricanes or tornadoes, and how vulnerability and resilience are measured, monitored, and assessed.
How Natural Disasters Can Influence Reproductive Health and Fertility
(2018) Natural disasters focus the collective imagination on images of community devastation. Beyond the obvious external signs of disaster, such as destroyed homes and ruined infrastructure, are more intimate impacts, such as impeded access to reproductive health services.
What Can the Discipline Do to Solve the Human Predicament?
On Sept. 28, 2007, as part of the Population Reference Bureau's Policy Seminar Series, Dr. Paul Ehrlich discussed ways in which demography can greatly increase its policy impact in areas as diverse as climate change, the conservation of natural capital, and, of course, population reduction.
Are the Kids Alright? How Gen Z Girls’ Well-Being Compares With Their Mothers’ and Grandmothers’ Teenage Years
The second in a series of three blogs on our new "Losing More Ground" report.