Based on cross-sectional telephone survey data collected, the study assesses the degree to which demographic and place-based factors are associated with changing public opinions on climate change, wolves, renewable energy, and land development regulations in rural northeast Oregon.
The author examines competition over natural resource use and poverty eradication strategies. Among the factors considered is population growth.
The authors fashion maps that illustrate current human appropriation of net primary production. Local primary production varies spatially as does the distribution of appropriation. The authors propose policy options.
In this paper, the author discusses the links between ecosystems and aspects of human well-being.
Based on a study conducted for nearly 30 years between 1976 and 2003 on the northern side of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Kenya, this paper reports a summary of linkages among changes in land use, biodiversity and land degradation.
In this paper, the author identified and ranked biodiversity hotspots based on biodiversity as well as the socioeconomic threats - human population size, rural population density, population growth rate, and governmental debt, to biodiversity.
In this article, the authors focus on societal ES (Ecosystems Service) management decisions that may have a negative affect on the provison of other ES. The discussion is done within the context of Millenium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) scenarios.
A study of extinction rates in six wildlife reserves indicated that human population and reserve size accounted for 98% of the observed variation in extinction rates between reserves.
The authors infer the presence and population size of paleoeskimos on western Victoria Island and suggest that a rapid decline of population size was due to an overhunting of musk-ox.
The paper, explored the impacts of demographic growth on storage practices, foraging behavior, dog husbandry, and emergent social inequality at the Bridge River site, in the late Holocene Middle Fraser Canyon.
