While many other environmental problems cry for a need for data and better scientific analysis, these needs are most urgent for the topic discussed in this monograph. Four components are needed for an integrated and balanced policy. They are:, Improvement in the Quality of Life; Attention to Population Dynamics and Policies; Good Forest and Land Management Policies; and Attention to Measures at the Regional, National and International Level.
Relationships between population, environment and industrial processes are reciprocal and vary according to the geographic and time scale on which they occur. The reciprocal impacts between population, environment, and industrial activity may occur from a local to global scale and may emerge over the short-term or long term. In all instances they are mediated by social and economic factors. As a result, the formulation of policy which responds to these characteristics requires the coordination, collection and integrated analysis of multisectoral information at global and local levels.
The purpose of this publication is to draw out the policy issues and implications of demographic and physical environmental change in arid lands and to consider why some population groups are more vulnerable than others and merit special attention from policy makers.
The paper focuses on an analysis of climate and development policies covering those dealing with development notably the country’s Sixth Five Year Plan (2011-15) and Outline Perspective Plan (to 2021), as well as its Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) progress report; and policies that deal with disasters, notably the National Plan for Disaster Management (2010-15).
Course Syllabus. In this course, students will critically assess the wide range of opinions about how the world should farm and eat, and how agriculture can evolve to reliably and equitably support large human population.
The purpose of this paper is to contribute additional and innovative pro poor policy options in the area of employment and natural resources management. Within this framework the concept of sustainable livelihoods is used as both a concrete goal of policy and as an approach for policy formulation and development of anti-poverty strategies. The paper initially examines UNDP's use of a sustainable livelihoods approach for poverty reduction, including the evolution of the concept and methodology.
Results from this study show that unskilled and illiterate distressed migrants are compelled to make quantum jumps from stagnated rural areas to metropolitan areas, leading to urban over-congestion, urban atrophy, proliferation of urban informal sectors, urban unemployment, and frequent break down of essential urban services.
City-Region 2020 is one of the most wide-ranging investigations of sustainable development in any city or region in the world. Looking at the long term dynamics of a major conurbation, it follows from the Town & Country Planning Association's 'Planning for a Sustainable Environment', and goes far beyond short term 'greening' to explore fundamental trends and goals for the case study of Greater Manchester.
Human population, production and consumption are growing rapidly and are placing heavy pressures on those species and habitats that the conservation community is striving to protect. A major weakness in our organized abilities to deal with this problem lies in disciplinary specialization.
GENUS abstract: It is popular belief in demography that demographic changes in a country have an impact on the way the land of that same country is used by its population and that, on the other hand, the land use conditions the demographic development. The paper intends to verify these hypotheses in South Africa, starting from the last century, highlighting the consequences of the most recent demographic developments on land use and, in particular, their compatibility with the current expectations regarding land use.
