Demographic dynamics and environmental change in Brazil

Abstract

In its first part, the text examines the evolution of research on demographic dynamics and environmental change in Brazil. While concern for the deforestation of the Amazon region was an important starting point for the concerns of demographers, the first systematic studies dealt with the "brown agenda." It was a question of urban environmental quality which motivated specialists to enter this field. In the second part, the text presents a preliminary analysis of demographic dynamics in the principal ecological formations of Brazil, with considerations on the relationships between processes of population distribution and environmental sustainability.

Domestic dogs in rural area of fragmented Atlantic Forest: potential threats to wild animals

“…In the recent decades, most of the Brazilian rural population migrated to urban areas (HOGAN, 2010). As cities grew, the countryside parts of industrialized and urbanized countries improved, and there were economic and social relations changes established in rural areas, where the replacement of human labor and the technology to increase production contributed to the rural exodus (HOGAN, 2010).…”

“…As cities grew, the countryside parts of industrialized and urbanized countries improved, and there were economic and social relations changes established in rural areas, where the replacement of human labor and the technology to increase production contributed to the rural exodus (HOGAN, 2010). The new socioeconomic patterns are evidenced in the relationship between humans and dogs from rural areas.…”

Forest Landscapes and Global Change

“…The dominant natural vegetation in São Paulo is the Atlantic Forest, which is both a high-priority area for biodiversity conservation (Joly et al 1999, Myers et al 2000 and the most urbanized and densely populated area of Brazil (Hogan 2001 ). In eastern São Paulo, along the Serra do Mar mountain chain, lie the most signifi cant remnants of the Atlantic Forest, which form a mosaic of legally protected areas (Ribeiro et al 2009 ).…”

The use of survey data to study migration–environment relationships in developing countries: alternative approaches to data collection

“…Hogan promoted the development of the new field extensively through training many young Brazilians at UNICAMP for over three decades and as the South American representative in the inaugural Committee on Population and Environment of the International Union for the Study of Population (IUSSP) in 1990–1994. As early as 1991, Hogan called for approaches that “transcend the Malthusian vision” and noted that “migration, patterns of human settlement and linkages to the environment and degradation of resources should provide stimuli for that transcendence” (Hogan 1991) and lead to a more multidimensional policy agenda (Hogan 1995, 2001). Hogan contributed to in-depth theorizing and applied research on both “brown” and “green” issues for Brazil and globally, but it is the green that relates most to this present paper (e.g., Bilsborrow and Hogan 1999; Hogan 2007).…”