Drawing on a three year research study on the gendered impacts of climate change, the authors argue that climate crises are creating significant economic hardships which has led to dowry being viewed by the families of young men as a form of capital accumulation.
Authors find that unspecific air pollution at workplaces is associated with an increased risk of adult-onset asthma.
The author seeks to explain changes in personal transport by examining micro- and macro-level data on aging, household, and urbanization.
For the analyzed regions of Chiapas and Tlaxcala, results show a a linkage between environmental degradation and migration. In Chiapas, the hazardous impacts of hurricane Mitch in 1998 and Stan in 2005 had a "triggereffect" for internal and international migration. For Tlaxcala, soil erosion and changing rainfall patterns serve as an additional push-factor for emigration.
This is a study on the interaction between forest cover change and population and economic growth in India over a 30 year period.
Hansen documents three decades of land use change by integrating data from satellite, questionnaires, and in-depth interviews.
In this chapter, the authors described the portion of an ongoing project in Nang Rong, Thailand, relevant to the human dimensions of global environmental change. The paper gave emphasis on mapping and modelling patterns and dynamics of land use and land cover by linking people, place and environment. (from Introduction)
The objective of the study is to evaluate the impacts of rapid human population growth and urbanization on the Endangered Key deer (Odocoileus virginianus clavium) habitat use, population dynamics, behavior, and body mass.
In this paper, the authors reveal how migration affects the environment in sending countries, specifically, how migrants and their earnings, as well as their ideas, behavior and attitudes, affect land use, land cover, and firewood use.
The paper examines the relationship between reproductive behavior and land availability, productivity, and farm size in the Nyeri District of Kenya
