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Population and Environment Volume 28 Issue 5

Subject Areas: Environmental Science (miscellaneous); ;
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers - Springer Journals
ISSN: 0199-0039
SJR: 53

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Guest Editor’s Note

Holden, Melodie

2007 Population and Environment

doi:10.1007/s11111-007-0044-7
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Population and environment in the twenty-first century

Potts, Malcolm

2007 Population and Environment

doi:10.1007/s11111-007-0045-6

In the past 50 years global population grew by 3.7 billion. There is a large unmet need for family planning and wherever women have been given the means and the information to decide if or when to have the next child, then family size has fallen, often rapidly. However, since the UN 1994 Cairo...
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The need for family planning

Prata, Ndola

2007 Population and Environment

doi:10.1007/s11111-007-0042-9

The purpose of this paper is to examine the evidence on the need for family planning. The available evidence on current levels of unmet need for contraceptives, fertility preferences, and the non-contraceptive benefits of family planning is reviewed. I argue that expansion of family planning...
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Human population as a dynamic factor in environmental degradation

Harte, John

2007 Population and Environment

doi:10.1007/s11111-007-0048-3

The environmental consequences of increasing human population size are dynamic and nonlinear, not passive and linear. The role of feedbacks, thresholds, and synergies in the interaction of population size and the environment are reviewed here, with examples drawn from climate change, acid...
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Why the silence on population?

Campbell, Martha

2007 Population and Environment

doi:10.1007/s11111-007-0054-5

The tripling of the world’s population growth since 1960 has received little public attention the past decade. Six reasons for the silence around this subject constitute a “perfect storm”. The first five are: visibility of actual fertility decline in the developed countries as well as a number of...
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Family planning and reproductive health: the link to environmental preservation

Speidel, J.; Weiss, Deborah; Ethelston, Sally; Gilbert, Sarah

2007 Population and Environment

doi:10.1007/s11111-007-0051-8

This paper seeks to refocus the attention of environmentalists on the importance of population trends to environmental sustainability and identifies prevention of unintended pregnancy as potential common ground for environmentalists and family planning advocates. The health and other welfare...
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Case study: fertility decline in Iran

Vahidnia, Farnaz

2007 Population and Environment

doi:10.1007/s11111-007-0050-9

Iran has experienced one of the most successful family planning programs in the developing world, with 64 percent decline in total fertility rate (TFR) between 1986 and 2000. This paper focuses on Iranians’ unique experience with implementation of a national family planning program. Recognition...
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Conservation and family planning in Tanzania: the TACARE experience

Mavanza, Mary; Grossman, Amy

2007 Population and Environment

doi:10.1007/s11111-007-0043-8

Community-based distribution (CBD) programs present an alternative way of effectively reaching people in rural areas of developing countries where conventional methods of delivery do not exist or fail. This paper reviews the experience and findings from the Jane Goodall Institute’s (JGI) TACARE...
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Bixby symposium on population & conservation: key note address

Goodall, Jane

2007 Population and Environment

doi:10.1007/s11111-007-0047-4

Full transcript of Dr. Goodall’s keynote address at the Bixby symposium on Population and Conservation, held at the University of California, Berkeley on May 6, 2006. Dr. Goodall contrasts population growth amongst chimpanzees and human beings and discusses current conservation efforts of the...
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Family planning: building blocks to a better environment and better world

Gaffikin, Lynne

2007 Population and Environment

doi:10.1007/s11111-007-0049-2

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