This article examines the long-term sociodemographic impacts of that weather event and reveals dramatic changes in fertility, mortality, and nuptialityis based on analysis of church records and population censuses of 22 mountain parishes over a 21-year period.
In this paper, the authors evaluate several geomasking techniques applied to data from the Agincourt Health and Socio-Demographic Surveillance System in rural South Africa, aimed at reducing the likelihood of respondent identification.
This article “looks back” to the origins of the developments on research on demographic responses to changes in the natural environment over the past two decades, identifying pivotal agenda-setting moments in the 1990s and tracing the impact on contemporary research.
This article provides a brief overview of the relationship between disaster vulnerability and demographic variables. Population numbers and densities are examined along with using a gender focus as illustrative of individual characteristics. For the most part, people’s and society’s choices create vulnerabilities based on demographics rather than specific demographic characteristics inevitably conferring vulnerability.
Existing research on the relationship between economic growth and environmental impact has produced mixed results. Also, there has been a lack of attention on the effect of population, and per capita measures are used rather than total pollution.
Accounting for changes in both cold- and heat-related mortality for different age classes, the time dynamics associated with temperature-related mortality, demographic change and the urban heat island effect, this study examines the impacts of climate change on future mortality in the Netherlands and the related economic costs.
This article aimed to address the strategies commonly used by researchers who use the DHS use a variety of approaches for spatial data merging, and proposes a theory‐based and straightforward alternative for adding contextual environmental variables to survey data that maintains confidentiality of those surveyed.
Over the past two centuries Earth’s human population has doubled, and doubled again, and nearly doubled yet again, increasing from 1 billion to over 7.6 billion people. This huge increase is at the root of grave global environmental problems, from climate change to mass species extinction. With help from a generous grant from the Global Challenges Foundation, The Overpopulation Project studies the environmental impacts of overpopulation and explores humane policies to end population growth around the world.
The article clarifies the many environmental benefits of smaller populations, concluding that reversing population growth would abate species extinctions, avoid overconsumption of fresh water and many other resources, and mitigate climate change by lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
Using a Young Lives data set and child fixed‐effects regression, the study finds a differential impact of different types of natural disasters on education and cognitive ability of children aged 12 to 15 years in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam.
