In this article, the authors use geolocated child nutrition data from 53 developing countries to show that minor to severe droughts as well as severe periods of extreme rainfall are related to child stunting.
To study the impact of the urban evolution on the environment, this paper establishes a simple core–periphery model with monocentric cities, which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities.
In this article, the authors present a conceptual framework of illicit land transactions and a two-pronged approach using remotely sensed data to spatially link illicit activities to land uses.
The authors outline the key extensions of the National Research Council's People and Pixels foundation since 1998. The article highlight several breakthroughs in research on human–environment interactions. It also identify pressing research problems—disaster, famine, drought, war, poverty, climate change—and explore how interdisciplinary approaches integrating people and pixels are being used to address them.
This paper reviews the trajectory of climate change and discusses the shortcomings of ongoing efforts to address it, specifically with governance on climate change.
This report assesses and maps 184 peer-reviewed, empirical research articles selected for their focus on linkages between water stress and human migration. First and most importantly, this literature asserts that migration is universal. Migration is an extremely common social process and is normal in almost every society on earth. Moreover, migration is not a pathological response to environmental change. Environment- influenced migration is rarely (if ever) a resource threat to the regions to which people move.
This article analyzes how the international community is dealing with the concept of climate change refugees, an emergent and undeniable reality.
While many other environmental problems cry for a need for data and better scientific analysis, these needs are most urgent for the topic discussed in this monograph. Four components are needed for an integrated and balanced policy. They are:, Improvement in the Quality of Life; Attention to Population Dynamics and Policies; Good Forest and Land Management Policies; and Attention to Measures at the Regional, National and International Level.
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.
