Population and Strategies for National Sustainable Development: A guide to assist national policy makers in linking population and environment in strategies for development

by Gayl D Ness, Meghan V Golay

Overview

The guide serves as a resource for national-level policy makers and the staff of conservation organizations who wish to integrate population and environmental conditions in planning for sustainable development. It presents the basic rationale for linking population and environmental issues, including the demonstrable impact that growth in population and consumption is having on the environment. At the same time, it acknowledges the difficulty of achieving integration due to long-entrenched disciplinary and institutional specialization. The guide refrains from making blanket prescriptions, but rather emphasizes that policy and planning responses must be attuned to the location-specific nature of population-environment interactions. A number of mechanisms for achieving integration are presented, including placement of demographers within national planning organizations, or creation of country-based networks of population and conservation professionals who meet regularly to share knowledge and experience. For those less familiar with previous research, the book includes a primer on demographic change and models and frameworks for understanding the links between population dynamics (births, deaths, growth, migration) and environmental change.



Originally published in 1996

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000151848
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/26/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Gayl D Ness and Meghan V Golay

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Executive Summary

Preface

PART I: Introduction

The Guide: Users, Use and Basic Orientation

The Global, Historical Context of Population-Environment Dynamics

Part II: Population-Environment Linkages in Strategies for National Sustainable Development

Strategies Tor Sustainable Development

The Meaning of Development

Thinking about Linkages

Organizing Linkages

GIS: New Tools for Linking Visual Capacities

Population-Environment Networks: A Proposed Strategy

PART III: Linking Population and the Environment - Frameworks and Models

Introduction

Characteristics of Frameworks and Models

Common Frameworks: I=PAT

Models oT Population-Environment Dynamics

IIASA's Population-Development-Environment Model

Next Steps

PART IV: Population Parameters and Dynamics

The Demographic Transitions

A National Population-Environment Review

Basic Issues: Size and Vital Rates

Aged Sex Composition

Population Momentum

Migration and Environment

Urbanization

Measuring the Quality of Life

Socially Defined Groups: Gender, Ethnicity, and Indigenous Peoples

Environmental Indicators

Bibliography

Glossary

Index