U.S. Unintended Pregnancies Fell: Good for the Environment?
Over a recent three-year period, the share of U.S. pregnancies that were unintended fell to the lowest levels in decades, a new study reports. The unintended pregnancy rate dropped from 51 percent of...
View ArticleFPESA Research Paper Assessment: Human Population Growth Threatens Animal...
Jeffrey McKee, Erica Chambers, and Julie Guseman, “Human Population Density and Growth Validated as Extinction Threats to Mammal and Bird Species,” Human Ecology, vol. 41, iss. 5 (October 2013), pp....
View ArticleFPESA Research Paper Assessment: Fertility Decline Spurs Per Capita...
Ronald Lee and Andrew Mason, “Fertility, Human Capital, and Economic Growth over the Demographic Transition,” European Journal of Population, vol. 26, no. 2 (19 June 2010), pp. 159–82,...
View ArticleFPESA Research Paper Assessment: Population Growth, Urbanization “Dwarf...
Richard C. Carter and Alison Parker, “Climate Change, Population Trends and Groundwater in Africa,” Hydrological Sciences Journal, vol. 54, no. 4 (2009), pp. 676–89,...
View ArticleFPESA Research Paper Assessment: Population Growth May Not Drive...
Anders Henrik Sirén, “Population Growth and Land Use Intensification in a Subsistence-based Indigenous Community in the Amazon,” Human Ecology, vol. 35, no. 6 (December 2007), pp. 669–80,...
View ArticleFPESA Research Paper Assessment: Land Scarcity in Africa May Raise Unmet...
Derek D. Headey and T.S. Jayne, “Adaptation to Land Constraints: Is Africa Different?” Food Policy, vol. 48 (October 2014), pp. 18–33, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2014.05.005. An empirical...
View ArticleFPESA Research Paper Assessment: More Women in Parliaments Linked to...
Kari Norgaard and Richard York, “Gender Equality and State Environmentalism,” Gender & Society, vol. 19, no. 4 (August 2005), pp. 506–22, https://doi. org/10.1177/0891243204273612. This paper was...
View ArticleIs There a Place for Family Planning Advocacy in Environmental Work?
Ask environmental leaders where voluntary family planning fits into their organizations’ missions and goals, and most will draw a blank. Their tasks are hard and often controversial enough without...
View ArticleWhether or Not Cheering Is Warranted, There Are Ways to Celebrate World...
As we advance well into the 21st century, what are we to make of World Population Day, which falls—thanks to a 1989 declaration of the United Nations—every year on July 11? World Population Day was...
View ArticleFPESA Research Paper Assessment: Identity as Mothers, Appalachians Key to...
Shannon Elizabeth Bell and Yvonne A. Braun, “Coal, Identity, and the Gendering of Environmental Justice Activism in Central Appalachia,” Gender & Society, vol. 24, no. 6 (December 2010), pp....
View ArticleFPESA Research Paper Assessment: “Carbon Legacies” and the Link Between...
Project Director’s note: On August 18, National Public Radio ran a segment on the efforts of bioethical philosopher Travis Rieder to justify the concept of “population engineering” to head off...
View ArticleAfrican Researchers on the Linkage of Family Planning, Food Security, and...
African researchers are well-represented among the articles that the FPESA project team found relevant to the linkage between family planning and environmental sustainability. They also are the most...
View ArticlePerspective: Building a Better Future for Girls Builds a Better World
“Thank heaven for little girls,” Maurice Chevalier sang in the Oscar-winning 1958 movie musical Gigi. But even in his gentlemanly French-accented voice, there was the hint of a leer, a premonition of...
View ArticleFPESA Research Paper Assessment: As Developing Country Households Get...
Kyle W. Knight and Eugene A. Rosa, “Household Dynamics and Fuelwood Consumption in Developing Countries: A Cross-national Analysis,” Population and Environment, vol. 33, no. 4 (June 2012), pp. 365–78,...
View ArticleHuman Population and Animal Extinctions: An Interview with Dr. Jeffrey McKee
“As our human population grows and our difficulties mount to feed over 7 billion people, we are not the only species at stake.” As part of Worldwatch’s investigation on how voluntary family planning...
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