Population and Environment

Abstract

The interactions between human population dynamics and the environment have often been viewed mechanistically. This review elucidates the complexities and contextual specificities of population-environment relationships in a number of domains. It explores the ways in which demographers and other social scientists have sought to understand the relationships among a full range of population dynamics (e.g., population size, growth, density, age and sex composition, migration, urbanization, vital rates) and environmental changes. The chapter briefly reviews a number of the theories for understanding population and the environment and then proceeds to provide a state-of-the-art review of studies that have examined population dynamics and their relationship to five environmental issue areas. The review concludes by relating population-environment research to emerging work on human-environment systems.

Monitoring and Assessment of Land Use and Land Cover Changes (1977 - 2010) in Kamrup District of Assam, India Using Remote Sensing and Gis Techniques

“…Increasing anthropogenic pressure such as land use/land cover changes, air, water, and soil pollution (Fearnside, 2001;Sherbinin et al, 2007), degradation of soil quality and losses in biological diversity causes the threatening of the overall productivity of ecosystem functioning at regional as well as global scales (Noss, 2001; Kilic et al, 2004;Kumar, 2011). It is also concluded as vulnerability of places and people to climatic, economic or sociopolitical perturbations (Kasperson et al, 1995;Turner et al, 2003;Lambin et al, 2003).…”

Puliran: A Critical Assessment of the Sustainability of the Laguna De Bay and Its Implications to the Bio-Region

“…This prevalence gives to show how detrimental it becomes for the community when the natural resources present are exploited to levels of non-sustainability. It can be deduced as well that the human-environment interaction here is at a distraught (de Sherbinin et al, 2007) even though the lakeshore fishing communities are inherently tied to the bountiful resources coming from the Lake as an ecology-based economy.…”

A GIS based land suitability analysis for sustainable agricultural planning in Gelda catchment, Northwest Highlands of Ethiopia

“…However, further expansions of cultivation land are very limited or will be at the expenses of other life support systems, such as forest resources. In most of the African countries, population pressure has resulted in an expansion of cultivated land into other land use/ cover (LULC) classes and a reduction in the average available farm per capita (Sherbinin et al, 2007). Moreover, other LULC categories e.g.…”