International Handbook of Population and Environment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Integrating the Environment into Population Research

   • Lori M. Hunter, Clark Gray, Jacques Veron

   Pages 1-11

3. Theoretical Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Population and Environment Interactions: Macro Perspectives

      • Jacques Véron

      Pages 15-35

   3. A Micro Perspective: Elaborating Demographic Contributions to the Livelihoods Framework

      • Sara R. Curran

      Pages 37-61

   4. Vulnerability to Climate Change and Adaptive Capacity from a Demographic Perspective

      • Raya Muttarak

      Pages 63-86

4. Data & Methods

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. Household-Scale Data and Analytical Approaches

      • Brian C. Thiede

      Pages 89-110

   3. Spatial Data and Analytical Approaches

      • Rachel A. Rosenfeld, Katherine J. Curtis

      Pages 111-137

   4. Qualitative Data and Approaches to Population–Environment Inquiry

      • Sabine Henry, Sebastien Dujardin, Elisabeth Henriet, Sofia Costa Santos Baltazar

      Pages 139-163

5. Migration & Environment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. Building a Policy-Relevant Research Agenda on Environmental Migration in Africa

      • Valerie Mueller

      Pages 167-182

   3. Water Stress and Migration in Asia

      • David J. Wrathall, Jamon Van Den Hoek

      Pages 183-203

   4. Environmentally Informed Migration in North America

      • Elizabeth Fussell, Brianna Castro

      Pages 205-223

   5. Environmental Migration in Latin America

      • Daniel H. Simon, Fernando Riosmena

      Pages 225-240

6. Health and Mortality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-241

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   2. Air Pollution, Health, and Mortality

      • Melissa LoPalo, Dean Spears

      Pages 243-262

   3. Population and Water Issues: Going Beyond Scarcity

      • Stéphanie Dos Santos, Bénédicte Gastineau, Valérie Golaz

      Pages 263-282

   4. Heat, Mortality, and Health

      • Heather Randell

      Pages 283-299

   5. Land Use Change and Health

      • William K. Pan, Gabrielle Bonnet

      Pages 301-329

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 inthe areas of demography, migration, fertility, health and mortality, as well as environmental, global and development studies.

• Environmental demography
• Climate change
• Human population dynamics
• Climate-related migration
• Urbanization and human health
• Population-environment connections
• Population processes and the environment
• Environmental health

• Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA

  Lori M. Hunter

• Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA

  Clark Gray

• Campus Condorcet, National Institute for Demographic Studies, Aubervilliers Cedex, France

  Jacques Véron

Lori Hunter is Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is also Director of the CU Population Center within in the Institute of Behavioral Science. Dr. Hunter’s research focuses on population dynamics as related to environmental context with a primary emphasis on migration as a livelihood strategy among natural resource-dependent communities in rural South Africa. She also works on issues of data confidentiality in population-environment research.

 

Clark Gray is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research integrates data and methods from the population and spatial sciences to investigate the consequences of environmental change for vulnerable households in the developing world. A primary contribution has been to quantify environmental influences on human migration  in more than twenty developing countries.

 

Jacques Véron is demographer and emeritus research director at the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED). He has been deputy director of INED. His research focus on population dynamics, environmental change and development. He has conducted surveys in India, in particular on international migration.  He has also an interest for the demography of extreme events.  

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