Synopses & Reviews
First systematic in-depth treatment of links between population and climate change, for researchers, policy-makers and students.
Review
"Links between climatology and demographics are dealt with in an illuminating way by the three authors, who are all at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna. A first-rate exercise in multi-disciplinary analysis, the book...amounts to a timely exploration of the major challenges ahead." Nature
Review
"...the summaries are presented with exceptional clarity." Population and Development Review"...the best single work to date on the relationships between population and climate change." Gayl Ness, University of Michigan"Links between climatology and demographics are dealt with in an illuminating way by the three authors, who are all at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna. A first-rate exercise in multi-disciplinary analysis, the book...amounts to a timely exploration of the major challenges ahead." Nature
Synopsis
In this volume a multi-disciplinary team from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis examine, with an open mind and focusing on the problem of global climate change, the dynamics of world population. The book looks at the causes of climate change, the impacts of climate change on human population, and how each would be affected by policies which reduce the rate of population growth. It will be of importance to graduate students, researchers and policy-makers in environmental science, environmental policy, geography and economics.
Table of Contents
Foreword; Preface; Authors and contributors; Acknowledgement; Part I. Climate Change: 1. The human population, economic development, and environment; Part II. Population and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: 2. Population and adaptation; 3. Agriculture, health, and environmental security; 4. Population and climate change; 5. Policy implications; Appendix I. Fertility and mortality assumptions for IIASA population projections; Appendix II. Household-level economies of scale in energy consumption; Appendix III. Population in major climate change assessment models; References.