Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Theoretical Perspectives
• Macro Perspectives (Malthus, IPAT, …)
• Micro Perspctives (Multiphasic, livelihoods, vulnerability …)
Data & Methods
1. Household-scale data and analytical approaches
• Data sources (DHS, census, …)
• Methods and methodological challenges
2. Spatial data and analytical approaches
• Data sources (satellite imagery …)
• Methods and methodological challenges (measuring urbanization …)
Migration & Environment: Regional perspectives
3. Africa (e.g., drought, rainfall variability …)
4. Asia (e.g. sea level rise, floods …)
5. Europe (e.g. refugee influx, amenity mobility …)
6. North America (e.g. Great Plains, Katrina, sea level rise, amenity mobility …)
7. Latin America (e.g. drought, land scarcity …)
Environmental implications of migration
8. Urbanization
9. Deforestation
Health and Mortality
10. Child health (e.g. water quality …)
11. Climate change (e.g., heat waves …)
12. Urban environments (e.g. respiratory health …)
13. Resource scarcity (e.g., food security …)
14. Natural disasters (e.g., Tsunami 2004, …)
Other arenas
• short opening essay
• Fertility
15. Resource scarcity and fertility
16. Natural disasters and fertility
17. Gender
18. Population and carbon emissions
19. Socio-demographic inequalities in environmental exposures
Conclusion & Reflections
