Does poverty cause forest degradation? Evidence from a poor state in India
This paper makes an attempt to examine whether poverty is a factor determining forest degradation in the state of Odisha in India by using micro level data.
Forest
Population responses to environmental change: looking back, looking forward
The article “looks back” to the origins of environmental demography, identifying pivotal agenda-setting moments in the 1990s and tracing the impact on contemporary research. Then, it also “looks forward” to identify critical gaps and challenges that remain to be addressed and to set an agenda for future research on population responses to environmental change.
Atlas of the Human Planet 2020
The 2020 edition of the Atlas of the Human Planet presents policy-relevant examples provided by users of Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) products. Following a call for contribution, 34 showcases cover the domains of disaster risk reduction and crisis management, environment, urbanisation, and sustainable development.
Improving rural health care reduces illegal logging and conserves carbon in a tropical forest
The study analyzed earth observation data, clinic health records, and socioeconomic surveys to quantify conservation, health, and sustainable development outcomes simultaneously in order to show how a conservation–health care exchange in rural Borneo preserved globally important forest carbon and simultaneously improved human health and well-being, in a region of historically intense environmental destruction, widespread poverty, and unmet health needs.
Examining Indigenous perspectives on the health implications of large-scale agriculture in Jalisco, Mexico
To better understand the costs and benefits of large‐scale agriculture for Indigenous health, this paper draws on community‐based research from a collaborative international research project that examined the perceived health implications of the agricultural industry for Indigenous peoples in the state of Jalisco, Mexico.
Forest resources and household welfare: Empirical evidence from North Central Vietnam
The main aim of our study is to analyze the causal effect of forest resources on household income and poverty using secondary data from a socio‐economic quantitative household survey of the North Central region of Vietnam.
Understanding the role of illicit transactions in land-change dynamics
In this article, the authors present a conceptual framework of illicit land transactions and a two-pronged approach using remotely sensed data to spatially link illicit activities to land uses.
People and Pixels 20 years later: the current data landscape and research trends blending population and environmental data
The authors outline the key extensions of the National Research Council's People and Pixels foundation since 1998. The article highlight several breakthroughs in research on human–environment interactions. It also identify pressing research problems—disaster, famine, drought, war, poverty, climate change—and explore how interdisciplinary approaches integrating people and pixels are being used to address them.
Regional analysis of indirect factors affecting the recovery, degradation and deforestation in the tropical dry forests of Oaxaca, Mexico
Using the municipality of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico as study area, the paper evaluates the dynamics and identifies the indirect biophysical and socio‐economic factors related to the recovery, degradation and deforestation of the tropical dry forest (TDF) cover during the period 1993–2011.
Four compelling reasons to fear population growth (Quatre raisons de craindre la croissance démographique)
The author details four specific threats to human survival (or, at least, quality of survival) that are directly linked to population growth.
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