Using panel data from 1996 to 2019, this paper explores the heterogeneous effect of urbanization and nonrenewable energy consumption on the environment in 54 African nations.
The authors expand the STIRPAT model to empirically analyse the effects of China’s urbanization and urban sprawl on CO2 emissions from 1997 to 2018 in order to identify policy recommendations for addressing both how to reduce China’s carbon and how to encourage future low-carbon development.
In this paper, the authors investigate how more stringent traffic regulations implemented in Central London from late 2015 affected pollution levels and school absences.
Individual data, relative to the resident population of Udine, a city in northeastern Italy, under French domination (1806–1815) have been used to explore the effects of the environment on neonatal mortality in the early nineteenth century, controlling for social and economic factors.
The authors surveyed a representative sample of 1108 California residents following the 2020 wildfire season to better understand how perceptions and personal experience inform wildfire- and smoke-associated migration intentions.
Using well location data and population characteristics from the American Community Survey, this study documents the prevalence of historically marginalized populations (across age, income, education, race-ethnicity, and language) living near active oil and gas wells throughout the USA, at both local and aggregated scales.
By exploring the relationship between economic growth, urbanization, energy consumption, trade openness, human capital and ecological footprints for the period 1972–2018 in Bangladesh, this study has examined the validity of the EKC hypothesis.
Using four waves of panel data collected as part of the Child Grant Programme in rural Zambia, the authors examine the connection between migration and the choice of firewood or charcoal as cooking fuel and finds evidence for both mechanisms.
The authors combine newly available data derived from IRS tax records at the Census tract level with estimates of exposure to air pollution from vehicle traffic and the risk of lead exposure due to older housing in poor neighborhoods, to explore the association between childhood exposure to two forms of pollutants and three socioeconomic outcomes for African Americans, whites, and Latinos.
The article “looks back” to the origins of environmental demography, identifying pivotal agenda-setting moments in the 1990s and tracing the impact on contemporary research. Then, it also “looks forward” to identify critical gaps and challenges that remain to be addressed and to set an agenda for future research on population responses to environmental change.
