Do you need an introduction to the concept of population and environment?
Population Reference Bureau's Population Handbook, 4th International Edition
By Arthur Haupt and Thomas T. Kane, 1998,Population Reference Bureau
This handbook provides a quick guide to population dynamics for journalists, policymakers, teachers, students, and other people interested in demographics. It explains how to calculate and use major rates, ratios, and other measures - from the birth rate to the life table. The handbook also includes tips on interpreting population data.
English (83 pages, PDF, 3.06 MB)
Español (75 páginas, PDF, 3.21 MB)
Francais HTML, disponible uniquement sur Internet
Population: A Lively Introduction, 3rd Edition
By Joseph A. McFalls, Jr., Population Bulletin 53(3), 1998,Population Reference Bureau
This Population Bulletin discusses the basic forces of demographic change-fertility, mortality, and migration-and common assessment measures. It also introduces major population-related issues such as environmental degradation and poverty in the developing world. The 1998 edition has new data on race and ethnicity, interracial marriage, and aging and mortality.
English (51 pages, PDF, 679 KB)
Why Population Matters to Natural Resources
By Population Action International (PAI), Fact Sheet No. 13, 2000
This fact sheet presents facts about population and environment, water, cropland, fisheries, forests, climate and biodiversity. It calls for comprehensive population policies to bring humanity into enduring balance with the environment and natural resources.
English (2 pages, PDF, 166 KB)
Are you a conservation practitioner looking for guidance for integrating population issues into your work?
Participatory Population Appraisal: A Manual to Assist Rural Communities in Anticipating and Planning for Change
By John S. Williams, 2003, Population Reference Bureau
This manual focuses on local population dynamics of rural communities the distribution movement, growth (or decline) of local population and the consequences for sustainable development, the health and well-being of people and the quality of the local environment. It also illustrates concepts, methods, and tools useful for enabling those concerned with sustainable development to address population issues within local planning efforts.
English (56 pages, PDF, 1.03 MB)
Conservation on a Crowded Planet: A Population Sourcebook for Conservation Practitioners
By Center for Conservation Innovation/Conservation Strategies Unit, 2002, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
This sourcebook has been designed to give practitioners guidance in how to undertake or collaborate in population-related assessments and actions. It includes the following: information on how population dynamics affect ecoregions and a summary of current and projected population trends; a set of questions to help assess population-environment interactions at ecoregional and site-based levels; suggestions for specific actions to address population dynamics, including information on partnerships; information on what impacts can be expected from specific interventions, and in what time frame; and resources to support practitioners' efforts to act on population-conservation connections.
English (36 pages, PDF, 1.25 MB)
Our People, Our Resources: Supporting Rural Communities in Participatory Action Research on Population Dynamics and the Local Environment
By Thomas Barton, Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, Alex de Sherbinin and Patrizio Warren, 1997, World Conservation Union (IUCN)
This handbook illustrates concepts, methods and tools for primary environmental care, an approach that seeks to empower communities to meet basic needs while protecting the environment. In particular, it focuses on how population size, structure, growth (or decline) and movements relate to the quality of the environment and the quality of life. Emphasis is placed on a community-led process of participatory action research in which local knowledge and skills and fully utilized. The main purpose is to promote the effective, integrated management of environment and population dynamics for the benefit of local people in rural communities.
English (HTML, available online at: http://www.iucn.org/themes/spg/Files/opor/opor.html)
Would you like to explore case studies and lessons learned from the field on linking population and the environment?
Lessons from the Field: Integration of Population and Environment
By Robert Engelman, Denise Caudill, et al., 1998, World Neighbors
This publication contains papers presented during the panel session "Population and the Environment" at the American Public Health Association 125th Annual Meeting, November 12, 1997 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The authors are representatives of a range of organizations in the work of linking population and environment from the policy to program levels.
English ( 70 pages, PDF 12.5 MB)
Plan and Conserve: A Sourcebook on Linking Population and Environment Services in Communities
By Robert Engelman, 1998, Population Action International (PAI)
This publication presents the concept of community-based population and environment (CBPE) activites, stressing the provision of family planning and related services within that concept. It assembles an inventory of projects in developing countries in which organizations and communities are linking natural resource conservation and family planning activities.
English (112 pages, PDF, 2.89 MB)
Population Dynamics, Migration, and the Future of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve
By Jenny Ericson, Mark S. Freudenberger, and Eckart Boege, 1999, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
This paper describes the population dynamics and in-migration around the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve located in the southern Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. It presents results from the initial phases of an applied research program developed explore the impact of population growth or distribution on biodiversity conservation around the reserve.
English (40 pages, PDF, 396 KB)
Evaluating Human Population in Conservation Planning: An Example from the Sonoran Desert Ecoregion
By Larry Gorenflo, 2002, The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
This paper discusses the analysis of human population in the context of conserving biodiversity. It begins with a synopsis of the importance of human activity in conservation and explores the various measures of population that help to understand likely demographic impacts on the natural environment, focusing on a spatial dimension as well as temporal dimension. Finally, the paper analyzes population and related variables in a specific setting of conservation planning, the Sonoran Desert Ecoregion.
English (32 pages, PDF, 914 KB)
Integration of Population and Environment II: Ecuador Case Study
By By CEMOPLAF and World Neighbors, 1999
The findings of a three-year research project by World Neighbors and the Ecuadorian family planning organization CEMOPLAF present a compelling argument for implementing an integrated approach to address population and environment at the community level.
English (41 pages, PDF, 5.79 MB)
Mapping the Connections: The Population-Environment Lessons from Madagascar
By Center for Conservation Innovation/Conservation Strategies Unit, 2002, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Based on 1993 national census data, the maps present overlays of population growth, migration, urbanization, and ecological data for the ecoregion. Women's literacy data from the village and commune levels were also mapped to explore the linkages between the existence of educational opportunities for women, population growth, and forest loss. The resulting map series help to identify critical areas where high-priority biodiversity, significant population pressures, and vulnerable socioeconomic conditions meet, and where integrated conservation and development interventions are needed.
English/Français (16 pages, PDF, 2.62 MB)
Population, Environment and Poverty Linkages: Operational Challenges
By United Nations Population Fund, 2001, Population and Development Strategies Technical Report, No. 1.
This report provides an overview of the complex interrelations between population, the environment and poverty and the operational challenges they engender. The report documents UNFPA support for a number of program initiatives in this area, and concludes that in order to achieve the mutually reinforcing UNCED and ICPD goals, now mainstreamed in the Millennium Declaration, actions are required by both developed and developing countries.
English (79 pages, PDF, 972 KB)
Forging the Link: Emerging Accounts of Population and Environment Work in Communities
By Carolyn G. Vogel and Robert Engelman, 1999, Population Action International (PAI)
Drawn from written materials collected from community projects profiled in Population Action International's publication Plan and Conserve: A Source Book on Linking Population and Environment Services in Communities, this report provides an early and rapid assessment of the state of documented evidence and evaluation of community-based population and environment (CBPE).
English (60 pages, PDF, 1.62 MB)
An Ounce of Prevention: Making the Link between Health and Conservation
By Richard Margoluis, Samuel Myers, Jonnell Allen, Juanita Roca, Mary Melnyk, Jennifer Swanson, 2001, Biodiversity Support Program (BSP)
It is clear that many local populations rely directly on the biodiversity around them for survival, and that they prefer not to destroy it. How then can the conservation community take advantage of this naturally occurring incentive to conserve? What are some of the characteristics of community-based conservation and development projects that successfully link human health to conservation? This document examines human health at personal, family, and community levels as a motivating force for conservation.
English (61 pages, PDF, 1.95 MB)
Would you like to further integrate gender, population and environment into coastal zone management?
Mainstreaming Gender, Population and the Environment
By Coastal Resources Center, University of Rhode Island (CRC/URI), InterCoast, No. 41, Winter 2002
This issue of InterCoast takes a look at the intersection of coastal zone management with two human development and social science themes: population and gender. It includes information about global trends in the areas of integrated coastal management (ICM), gender, population, agriculture and food security.
English (40 pages, PDF, 2.91 MB)
Are you interested in accessing data on the state of population and the environment?
AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment
By Paul Harrison and Fred Pearce, Foreword by Peter Raven, 2000, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
The AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment is an important analysis of the relationships between human population and the environment. Illustrating through text, maps, and diagrams how population affect the world's ecosystems and natural resources both in the short and long term, the Atlas brings together a wealth of information from the most up-to-date sources.
English (HTML and PDF, available online at: http://atlas.aaas.org)
Nature's Place: Human Population and the Future of Biological Diversity
By Robert Engelman and Richard P. Cincotta, 2000, Population Action International (PAI)
This report considers how population is changing, how society might influence these trends, and what impact future population change might have on the conservation of species. The report surveys the world's highest-priority regions for biological conservation, the 25 biodiversity hotspots and three major wilderness areas and it quantifies each region's human population density and growth.
Engligh (87 pages, PDF, 2.30 MB)
People in the Balance: Population and Natural Resources at the Turn of the Millennium
By Robert Engelman, Richard P. Cincotta, Bonnie Dye, Tom Gardner-Outlaw, and Jennifer Wisnewski, 2000, Population Action International (PAI)
This publication updates key data on population growth and the state of critical natural resources as the millennium turns. It considers human population issues in relation to water, land, forests, fisheries, carbon dioxide and biological diversity and calls for policy changes for governments and the private sector.
English (36 pages, PDF, 4.53 MB)
The State of World Population 2001-Footprints and Milestones: Population and Environmental Change
By United Nations Population Fund, 2001
Human activity is altering the planet on an unprecedented scale with more people using more resources with greater intensity and leaving a bigger "footprint" on the earth than ever before. The report examines the close links between environmental conditions, population trends, and prospects for alleviating poverty in developing countries. It finds that expanding women's opportunities and ensuring their reproductive health and rights are critically important, both to improve the well-being of growing human populations and to protect the natural resource base.
Engligh (80 pages, PDF, 4.2 MB)
Español (80 páginas, PDF, 6.76 MB)
Français (80 pages, PDF, 6.69 MB)
Making the Link: Population, Health, Environment
By Jonathan G. Nash and Roger-Mark De Souza, 2002, Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
This document provides information and data on critical linkages between people and the environment. Thirteen demographic, health, and environment indicators are given for 123 countries, six world regions, and the world as a whole. Accompanying text and graphics highlight trends in urbanization, population momentum, consumption levels, carbon dioxide emissions, changes in land use, and declining availability of fresh water.
English (8 pages, PDF, 234 KB)
Population and the Environment: The Global Challenges
By Don Hinrichsen and Bryant Robey, 2000, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Population Reports, Series M, No. 15.
This issue of Population Reports focuses on the impact of rapid population growth on the environment. Many developing economies currently consume resources much faster than they can regenerate. Natural resources are under increasing pressure, threatening public health and development. However, steps can be taken to: use energy more efficiently; manage cities better, phase out subsidies that encourage waste; manage water resources and protect freshwater resources; harvest forest products; manage coastal zones and ocean fisheries; protect biodiversity hot spots; and adopt an international convention on climate change.
English (available online at: http://www.jhuccp.org/pr/m15edsum.shtml)
Español (disponible por Internet: http://www.jhuccp.org/pr/prs/sm15edsum.shtml)
Français (disponible sur Internet: http://www.jhuccp.org/pr/prf/fm15edsum.shtml)
Are you interested in learning more about implementing reproductive health programs?
Beyond the Clinic Walls: Case Studies in Community-Based Distribution
By James A. Wolff, Robert Cushman, Susanna C. Binzen, Florida A. Kweekeh, and C. Elizabeth McGrory, 1990, Managing Sciences for Health (MSH)
This collection of nine case studies, based on an African family planning program, describes how to develop and sustain a cost-effective community-based distribution (CBD) program. Designed for group training or self-guided study, this manual includes study questions and worksheets, sample forms and job descriptions, checklists, and a complete start-up kit for your CBD program.
English (HTML, ISBN 0-93-181608-4, available online at: http://erc.msh.org/mainpage.cfm?file=2.2.6.htm&module=chs&language=English
Responding to Reproductive Health Needs: Participatory Approaches for Analysis and Action
By Denise Caudill, 2001, World Neighbors
This guide outlines two workshops held in Nepal in 1997-1998 to help staff of non-profit organizations understand health from a gender sensitive point of view, analyze current reproductive health activities, use participatory tools (includes 15 exercises), and develop realistic action plans.
English (56 pages, PDF, 2.95 MB)
Français (58 pages, PDF, 613 KB)
Español (60 páginas, PDF, 1.97 MB)
Integrating Reproductive Health into NGO Programs, Volume 1: Family Planning, 2nd Edition
By Joyce V. Lyons and Jenny A. Huddart, 1997, John Snow, Inc. (JSI) and Initiatives, Inc.
This handbook can be used for self-guided study and reference, or as the basis for a facilitated workshop for non-governmental organizations (NGO) participants interested in exploring opportunities to integrated family planning services into their existing activities. The handbook is divided into six "action steps" to guide decision-making issues of the process. Case studies and experiences from the field are also provided.
English (164 pages, PDF, 1.29 MB)
Would you like more information on population and environment issues?
Issues on Population and Environment: Bibliography of Population and Environment Publications
Edited by Victoria Dompka Markham, 2003, Center for Environment and Population (CEP), www.cepnet.org
This bibliography is a collection of citations compiled by the staff of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) during the development of the AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment. The bibliography is designed to supplement the Atlas so that together they can provide a good basis of information on the relationship between population and the environment.
English (50 pages, PDF, 590 KB)
Population Reference Bureau's Population, Health and Environment Publications
By Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
The Population Reference Bureau publishes the quarterly Population Bulletin, the annual World Population Data Sheet, and PRB Reports on America, as well as specialized publications covering population and public policy issues around the world. PRB's Web site is updated every three weeks with new articles and reports that span subjects as diverse as HIV/AIDS, children's environmental health, family planning, immigration, adolescent sexual health, maternal mortality, and population growth. English (available online at: http://www.prb.org)
Español (disponible por Internet: http://www.prb.org/SpanishTemplate.cfm)
Français (disponible uniquement sur Internet: http://www.prb.org/Frenchtemplate.cfm)
Population Connection Web Site
The Population Connection web site features fact sheets, publications, Earth Day kits, and a host of advocacy and advocacy training resources on population and related issues. Population Connection is the largest grassroots population organization in the United States, training more than 13,000 teachers each year featuring a "dot" video (now also on DVD in English and Spanish) showing the growth of human population through the centuries, which is considered the essential teaching aid for introductory population classes.
English (available online at: www.populationconnection.org)
Are you interested in using computer software for making population projections?
DemProj, Version 4: A Computer Program for Making Population Projections
By John Stover and Sharon Kirmeyer, 1999, The Futures Group International and Research Triangle Institute
DemProj projects the population for an entire country or region by age and sex, based on assumptions about fertility, mortality, and migration. A full set of demographic indicators can be displayed for up to 50 years into the future. Urban and rural projections can also be prepared.
Manual
English (101 pages, PDF, 823 KB)
Español (109 páginas, PDF, 810 KB)
Français (109 pages, PDF, 700 KB)
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