3-1: Human Population Trends and Controlling Factors

Short Summaries of Recent Research

• Climate Change Emigrants
  
  
• Population Policy Options in the Developing World.
  
  
• Essay on Being Unique
  
  
• Population, rate of increase, birth and death rates, surface area and density for the world, macro regions and regions.
  
  

Websites

• Can China Afford to Continue Its One-Child Policy? (Download full PDF file)
  
  
• Human Population Through History: 1 AD to 2020
  
  
• Global Trends Quiz
  
  
• UN Press Briefing on World Population Trends
  
  
• Freshwater stress: Current population at risk
  
  
• HIV InSite
  
  
• Population Policy: Consensus and Challenges.
  
  
• Current planet population: Updated every 30 seconds.
  
  
• Fertility, mortality, and population growth rates.
  
  
• Haub, Carl, Global and US National Population Trends.
  
  
• The Demographic and Population Studies - WWW Virtual Library. Provided by the Australian National University.
  
  
• Fourth World Women's Conference, Beijing, April 1995.
  
  
• 1994 UN Population and Development Conference (Cairo).
  
  
• Can The World Be FED?
  
  
• World's declining fertility rate.
  
  
• Population Peak
  
  
• Global Environmental Trends
  
  
• Population and Development
  
  

Additional References

• Bartlett, A.A., 2004: Thoughts on long-term energy supplies: Scientists and the silent lie. Physics Today, July, pp 53-55.
  
  
• Nicholls, R.J., and C. Small, 2002: Improved estimates of coastal population and exposure to hazards released. EOS, 83, 301-305.
  
  
• Lutz, W., W. Sanderson, and S. Scherbov, 2001: The end of world population growth. Nature, 412, 543-545.
  
  
• Bongaarts, J., 1998: Demographic consequences of declining fertility. Science, 282, 419-420.
  
  
• Cohen, Joel E., 1995: Population Growth and Earth's Human Carrying Capacity. Science, 269, 341-346.
  
  
• Dietz, Thomas, and Eugene A. Rosa., 1994: Rethinking the Environmental Impacts of Population, Affluence and Technology. Human Ecology Review, 1, Summer/Autumn, 277-300.
  
  
• Population Growth, technical atlas, WFS. (Download Adobe Acrobat Reader).
  
  
• Refugees, technical atlas, WFS.
  
  
• Rural and urban populations, technical atlas, WFS.