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Environment and development

The effect of two billion more people

March 31, 2025March 31, 2025 Richard Grossman
Environment, population, population growth, world

Richard Grossman joins the ongoing N-IUSSP debate on the sustainability of current and predicted population growth. He takes up several of the arguments that make David Lam moderately optimistic about … Read more

Fertility and reproduction

Are population policies still relevant in an era of climate change?

April 28, 2025March 24, 2025 George Martine
Africa, birth rate, climate change, Environment

Climate change is caused much more by generalized pursuit of throughput growth and the consumption patterns of the wealthy than by population growth. Structural changes would be needed in global … Read more

Environment and development

How will two billion more people affect food, water, energy, and CO2?

January 20, 2025 David Lam
Environment, population, population growth, world

David Lam looks at the resource impact of the projected 2.1 billion increase in world population by 2084. He concludes that population change will increase demand for food and water, … Read more

Environment and development

The subnational Human Development Index: details on inequality

March 14, 2021October 19, 2020 Iñaki Permanyer and Jeroen Smits
Environment, Human Development Index, world

Studies on the distribution of human development across the globe tend to omit the variations that exist within countries. Iñaki Permanyer and Jeroen Smits fill this gap by developing a … Read more

Video

Causes and effects of Climate change. National Geographic

May 17, 2021February 18, 2019 N-IUSSP
Environment, pollution, video

What causes climate change (also known as global warming)? And what are the effects of climate change? Learn the human impact and consequences of climate change for the environment, and … Read more

Environment and development

Four compelling reasons to fear population growth

March 10, 2021February 11, 2019 Massimo Livi Bacci
Demography, Environment, Human capital, population

Following on from last week’s article, Massimo Livi Bacci details four specific threats to human survival (or, at least, quality of survival) that are directly linked to population growth. Four … Read more

Environment and development

Even in Europe: population growth and climate change

March 10, 2021November 26, 2018 Hannes Weber
Environment, Europe, population, population growth

Proving many experts’ forecasts wrong, large parts of Europe are witnessing population growth rather than stability or decline. Hannes Weber notes that this is having detrimental effects on the environment … Read more

Environment and development

Thinking about the future: the four billion question

March 8, 2021February 12, 2018 Massimo Livi Bacci
Demography, Environment, population

The “population question”, central to the debate about humankind’s future since the 18th century, has slipped away from center stage and fallen into a coma in recent years. The international … Read more

Video

Comprendre le réchauffement climatique en 4 minutes

May 5, 2021September 11, 2017 N-IUSSP
Environment, video, world

Pourquoi l’homme est-il aujourd’hui considéré comme le principale responsable du changement climatique en marche ? Quel est exactement son impact sur les processus naturels qui régissent la planète ? Hausse … Read more

Graphics

Did you know?

May 4, 2021April 10, 2017 N-IUSSP
Environment, graphics, Health, population, world

More than 9 out of 10 people do not think that the world is getting better. Nevertheless, it does not fit with the empirical evidence.

Environment and development

Sustainability and the missing links in global governance

September 13, 2022March 14, 2016 George Martine
Environment, Welfare

After decades of dithering, posturing and procrastination on global environmental issues, 2015 appeared to be a banner year for sustainability. Growing recognition of environmental threats finally triggered waves of public … Read more

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