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General Reading Assignment for the entire class:
"Critical Links: Population, Health and Environment,"; Roger-Mark de Souza, John S. Williams and Frederick A. B. Meyerson, Population Reference Bureau, Population Bulletin Vol. 58 No. 3 September 2003.
I. OPENING REMARKS
II. THE IMPACT OF POPULATION GROWTH ON THE ENVIRONMENT
"Are Environmental Problems Linked to Population Trends?"
"Population Growth and the Environment: A Neoclassical View"
III. POPULATION PRESSURE ON LAND RESOURCES
"Has Population Growth Degraded the Quality of Natural Resources?"
"Has Population Growth Improved the Quality of Land in Africa and Asia? "
"What is the Impact of Population Growth on Forests?"
IV. POPULATION GROWTH AND GLOBAL WARMING
"Will Population Growth Lead to Catastrophe? The Case of Global Warming"
VII. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
II. THE IMPACT OF POPULATION GROWTH ON THE ENVIRONMENT*
Ehrlich, Paul R., et al. (1999). "Knowledge and the Environment", Ecological Economics v30, n2 (August 1999): 267-284. (Electronic Reserve)
Pebley, Anne R. (1998), "Demography and the Environment", Demography v35, n4 (November 1998): 377-389. (Electronic Reserve)
Samuel H. Preston, "The Effect of Population Growth on Environmental Quality", in Population Research and Policy Review, Vol. 15, April 1996, pp. 95-108. (Paper Reserve)
Mlay, Wilfred (1998), "Population Dynamics and the Environment ", in Environment and sustainable development in Eastern and Southern Africa: Some critical issues (1998): New York: St. Martin's Press; London: Macmillan Press; in association with the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, 1998. pp 30-44. (Paper Reserve)
Panayotou, Theodore (1996), "An Inquiry into Population, Resources and Environment" in The Impact of Population Growth on Well-Being in Developing Countries, Dennis Ahlburg, Allen C. Kelley and Karen Oppenheim Mason (editors), Springer-Verlag, New York, 1996, Ch. 5, pp. 219-258. (Paper Reserve).
Johnson, D. Gale (2001), "On Population and Resources: A Comment", Population and Development Review v27, n4 (December 2001): 739-747. (Electronic Reserve)
Dasgupta, Partha (2000), "Population and Resources: An Exploration of Reproductive and Environmental Externalities", in Population and Development Review, Vol. 26, No. 4, December 2000, pp. 63?-689. (Electronic Reserve)
Filmer, Deon; Pritchett, Lant H. (2002), "Environmental Degradation and the Demand for Children: Searching for the Vicious Circle in Pakistan", Environment and Development Economics v7, n1 (February 2002): 123-146. (Paper Reserve)
* The following papers are not assigned as a basis for the discussion paper; but they are strongly recommended to anyone who wishes to write a long paper on this topic.
Nathan Keyfitz, "Population Growth, Development and the Environment", in Population Studies, Vol. 50, 1996, pp. 335-359.
Pender, John L. (1998), "Population Growth, Agricultural Intensification, Induced Innovation and Natural Resource Sustainability: An Application of Neoclassical Growth Theory ", Agricultural Economics v19, n1-2 (September 1998): 99-112
III. POPULATION PRESSURE ON LAND RESOURCES
Scherr, Sara J. (1997), "People and Environment: What Is the Relationship between Exploitation of Natural Resources and Population Growth in the South?", Forum for Development Studies v0, n1 (1997): 33-58. (Paper Reserve-Missing)
Templeton, Scott R.; Scherr, Sara J. (1999), "Effects of Demographic and Related Microeconomic Change on Land Quality in Hills and Mountains of Developing Countries", World Development v27, n6 (June 1999): 903-918. (Electronic Reserve)
Drechsel, Pay, et al. (2001), "Population Density, Soil Nutrient Depletion, and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa", Ecological Economics v38, n2 (August 2001): 251-258. (Electronic Reserve)
"Has Population Growth Improved the Quality of Land in Africa and Asia? "
Tiffen, Mary and Michael Mortimore, (1994) "Malthus Controverted: The Role of Capital and Technology in Growth and Environmental Recovery in Kenya", in World Development, Vol. 22, No. 7, July 1994, pp. 997-1010. (Electronic Reserve)
Tiffen, Mary and Michael Mortimore and Francis Gichuki, (1994) "Population Growth and Environmental Degradation: Revisiting the Theoretical Framework" in More People Less Erosion: Environmental Recovery in Kenya, by Mary Tiffen and Michael Mortimore and Francis Gichuki , John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1994, Chapter 16, pp. 261-274.(Paper Reserve)
Mazzucato, Valentina; Niemeijer, David (2002), "Population Growth and the Environment in Africa: Local Informal Institutions, the Missing Link", Economic Geography v78, n2 (April 2002): 171-193. (Electronic Reserve)
Holden, Stein T.; Sankhayan, Prem L. (1998), "Population Pressure, Agricultural Change and Environmental Degradation in the Western Himalayan Region of India", Forum for Development Studies v0, n2 (1998): 271-300. (Paper Reserve)
Waggoner, Paule E. and Jesse H. Ausubel, "How Much Will Feeding More and Wealthier People Encroach on Forests?, in Population and Development Review, Vol. 27, No. 2, June 2001, pp. 239-257. (Electronic Reserve)
Leach, Melissa and James Fairhead, "Challenging Neo-Malthusian deforestation Analyses in West Africa's Dynamic Forest Landscapes" in Population and Development Review, Vol. 26, No. 1, March 2000, pp. 17-43. (Electronic Reserve)
Cropper, Maureen; Griffiths, Charles; Mani, Muthukumara (1999), "Roads, Population Pressures, and Deforestation in Thailand, 1976-1989", Land Economics v75, n1 (February 1999): 58-73. (Electronic Reserve)
IV. POPULATION GROWTH AND GLOBAL WARMING
"Will Population Growth Lead to Catastrophe? The Case of Global Warming"
Bongaarts, John (1992), "Population Growth and Global Warming" in Population and Development Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, June 1992, pp. 299-319. (Electronic Reserve)
Birdsall, Nancy (1994) "Another Look at Population and Global Warming", in United Nations, Population, Environment and Development: Report of an Expert Group Meeting on Population, Environment and Development, 20-24 January 1992, United Nations, New York, 1994. pp. 39-54. (Paper Reserve)
MacKellar, F. Landis, W. Lutz, C. Prinz and A. Goujon, (1995) "Population and Households, and CO2 Emissions", Population and Development Review, Vol. 21, 1995, pp. 849-865.(Electronic Reserve)
Meyerson, Frederick A. B. (1998), "Population, Carbon Emissions, and Global Warming: The Forgotten Relationship at Kyoto", in Population and Development Review, Vol. 24, No. 1, March, pp. 115-130. (Electronic Reserve)
Anne R. Pebly, "Demography and the Environment" in Demography, Vol. 35, No. 4, November 1998, pp. 377-390.
Livernash, Robert and Eric Rodenberg, Population Change, Resources and Environment, Population Bulletin of the Population Reference Bureau, Vol. 53, No. 1, March 1998.
How does a modern Malthusian view population-environment interactions?
Engleman, Robert, "Population as a Scale Factor: Impacts on Environment and Development" in Population, Environment, and Development, edited by R. K. Pachuri and Lubina F. Qureshy, Tata Energy and Resources Institute, 1997. pp. 15-33.
How do some modern Malthusians view the population-environment debate?
Smith, Joseph Wayne, Graham Lyons and Gary Sauer-Thompson, "Global Meltdown: Population Growth and Environmental Destruction", (Chapter 2) in Healing a Wounded World, Praeger, 1997, pp. 29-60.
Is there an environmental 'Malthusian Trap'?
Tisdell, Clement A., "Population, Economics, Development, and Environmental Security" in Population and Global Security, edited by Nicholas Polunin and Mohammad Nazim, United Nations Population Fund, 1994, pp. 65-84.
Was the Machakos story repeated in Southern Bolivia?
Preston, David, Mark Macklin and Jeff Warburton, in the Geographical Journal, Vol. 163, No. 2, July 1997, pp. 198-205.
How do most developing countries view the population-environment linkage?
Najam, Adil, "A Developing Countries' Perspective on Population, Environment and Development", in Population Research and Policy Review, Vol. 15: February 1996, pp. 1-19.
How do gender relations link population and environmental trends in Africa?
Ahon, Babatunde, "Gender Relations, Demographic Change and Prospects for Sustainable Development in Africa", in Africa Development, Vol. 20, No. 4, 1995, pp. 85-114.
How important is controlling population growth to limiting global warming?
Meyerson, Frederick A. B., "Population, Carbon Emissions, and Global Warming: the Forgotten Relationship in Kyoto, in Population and Development Review, Vol. 24, No. 1, March 1998, pp. 115-130.
Bongaarts, J., B.C. O'Neill and S. R. Gaffin, "Global Warming Policy: Population Left Out in the Cold", Environment, Vol. 39, No. 9, 1997, pp. 40-41.
Meyerson, Frederick A. B., "Population, Development and Global Warming: Averting the Tragedy of the Climate Commons", in Population and Environment, Vol. 19, No. 5, May 1998, pp. 443-463.
How will population momentum impact on the future of land and water resources?
Fischer, Gunther, and Gerhard Heilig, "Population Momentum and the Demand on Land and Water Resources", in the Philosophic Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1997, pp. 869-887.
What is the environmental carrying capacity of North and South America?
Pimentel, David and Mario Giampetro and Sandra G. F. Bukkens, "An Optimum Population for North and Latin America", in Population and Environment, Vol. 20, No. 2, November 1998, pp. 125-148.
How will population growth affect agricultural environments in the Third World?
Scherr, Sarah, "People and Environment: What is the Relationship between Exploitation of Natural Resources and Population Growth in the South?", in the Forum for Development studies, No. 1, 1997, pp. 33-58.
Can the environmental carrying capacity of land be increased by creating communal property rights?
Chopra, Kanchan and S.C. Gulati, "Environmental Degradation and Population Movements: The Role of Property Rights", in Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 9, 1997, pp. 383-408.
Do open access environmental resources encourage higher fertility?
Filmer, Deon and Pritchett, Lant, Environmental Degradation and the Demand for Children: Searching for the Vicious Circle, Policy Research Working Paper 1623, World Bank, July 1996.
Is environmental damage causing significant migration?
Myers, Norman, "Environmental Refugees", in Population and Environment, Vol. 19, No. 2, November 1997, pp. 167-182.
I. THE IMPACT OF POPULATION GROWTH ON THE ENVIRONMENT
"Are Environmental Problems Linked to Population Trends?"
"Population Growth and the Environment: A Neoclassical View"
III. POPULATION PRESSURE ON LAND RESOURCES
"Has Population Growth Degraded the Quality of Natural Resources!"
"Has Population Growth Improved the Quality of Lands in Africa and Asia? "
"What is the Impact of Population Growth on Forests?"
IV. POPULATION GROWTH AND GLOBAL WARMING
"Will Population Growth Lead to Catastrophe? The Case of Global Warming"
I. THE IMPACT OF POPULATION GROWTH ON THE ENVIRONMENT
"Are Environmental Problems Linked to Population Trends?"
"Population Growth and the Environment: A Neoclassical View"
III. POPULATION PRESSURE ON LAND RESOURCES
"Has Population Growth Degraded the Quality of Natural Resources!"
"Has Population Growth Improved the Quality of Lands in Africa and Asia? "
"What is the Impact of Population Growth on Forests?"
IV. POPULATION GROWTH AND GLOBAL WARMING
"Will Population Growth Lead to Catastrophe? The Case of Global Warming"