An article based on this cyberseminar appears in the journal Population & Environment. The full citation is:
Carr, David L., Laurel Suter, and Alisson Barbieri. 2005. "Population Dynamics and Tropical Deforestation: State of the Debate and Conceptual Challenges". Population & Environment, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 89-113.
The seminar featured an Opening Statement by Helmut Geist and Eric Lambin and statements by an Expert Panel. Members of the Panel are Alex Pfaff, Jussi Uusivuori, Alisson Barbieri, John Sydenstricker Neto, Emilio Moran, Marcia Caldo de Castro, Jeff Fox, Don Sawyer, David Kummer, and David Carr. The purpose of the seminar was to facilitate a thoughtful discussion, disseminate a wide variety of insights and ideas, and to promote a deeper understanding of demographic impacts on forests, in particular threatened forests, among a large group of interested researchers and experts.
PERN is a project of The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), and the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) on Global Environmental Change.
Technical support for
PERN is provided by the NASA-funded
Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
at the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
of Columbia University.
