Population and Environment in Industrialized Regions

Relationships between population, environment and industrial processes are reciprocal and vary according to the geographic and time scale on which they occur. The reciprocal impacts between population, environment, and industrial activity may occur from a local to global scale and may emerge over the short-term or long term. In all instances they are mediated by social and economic factors. As a result, the formulation of policy which responds to these characteristics requires the coordination, collection and integrated analysis of multisectoral information at global and local levels.