This handbook presents a timely and comprehensive overview of theory, data, methods and research findings that connect human population dynamics and environmental context. It presents regional summaries of empirical findings on migration and environmental connections and summarizes environmental impacts of migration such as urbanization and deforestation. It also offers background on the health implications of environmental conditions such as climate change, natural disasters, scarcity of natural resources, as well as on resource scarcity and fertility, gender considerations in population and environment, and the connections between population size, growth, composition and carbon emissions. This handbook helps readers to better understand the complexities within population-environment connections, in addition to some of the opportunities and challenges within environmental demography. As such this collection is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and policy analysts inthe areas of demography, migration, fertility, health and mortality, as well as environmental, global and development studies.

Provides an overview of empirical demographic research on population-environment connections Brings together the many aspects of inquiry including theory, data and methodologies Includes an important scholarly review of the core topics within environmental demography

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Lori Hunter is Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is also Director of the CU Population Center within in the Institute of Behavioral Science. Dr. Hunter's research focuses on population dynamics as related to environmental context with a primary emphasis on migration as a livelihood strategy among natural resource-dependent communities in rural South Africa. She also works on issues of data confidentiality in population-environment research.

Clark Gray is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research integrates data and methods from the population and spatial sciences to investigate the consequences of environmental change for vulnerable households in the developing world. A primary contribution has been to quantify environmental influences on human migration  in more than twenty developing countries.

Jacques Véron is demographer and emeritus research director at the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED). He has been deputy director of INED. His research focus on population dynamics, environmental change and development. He has conducted surveys in India, in particular on international migration.  He has also an interest for the demography of extreme events.  

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Chapter 1. It's About Time: Integrating the Environment into Population Research (Lori M. Hunter, Clark Gray, and Jacques Veron).- Part I : Theoretical Perspectives.- Chapter 2. Population and Environment Interactions: Macro Perspectives (Jacques Véron).- Chapter 3. A Micro Perspective: Elaborating Demographic Contributions to the Livelihoods Framework (Sara Curran).- Chapter 4. Vulnerability to Climate Change and Adaptive capacity from a demographic perspective (Raya Muttarak).- Part II: Data & Methods.- Chapter 5. Household-scale Data and Analytical Approaches (Brian Thiede).- Chapter 6. Spatial Data and Analytical Approaches (Rachel A. Rosenfeld and KatherineJ. Curtis).- Chapter 7. Qualitative Data and Approaches to Population-Environment Inquiry (Sabine Henry, Sebastien Dujardin, Elisabeth Henriet, and Sofia Costa Santos Baltazar).- Part III: Migration & Environment.- Chapter 8. Building a Policy-Relevant Research Agenda on EnvironmentalMigration in Africa (Valerie Mueller).- Chapter 9. Water Stress and Migration in Asia (David J. Wrathall and Jamon Van Den Hoek).- Chapter 10. Environmentally Informed Migration in North America (Elizabeth Fussell and Brianna Castro).- Chapter 11. Environmental Migration in Latin America (Daniel H. Simon and Fernando Riosmena).- Part IV: Health and Mortality.- Chapter 12. Air Pollution, Health, and Mortality (Melissa LoPalo and Dean Spears).- Chapter 13. Population and Water Issues: Going Beyond Scarcity (Stéphanie Dos Santos, Bénédicte Gastineau and Valérie Golaz).- Chapter 14. Heat, Mortality, and Health (Heather Randell).- Chapter 15. Land Use Change and Health (William Pan and Gabrielle Bonnet).- Chapter 16. Health and Mortality Consequences of Natural Disasters (Mark VanLandingham, Bonnie Bui, David Abramson, Sarah Friedman, and Rhae Cisneros).- Part V: The Influence of Demographic Dynamics on the Environment.- Chapter 17. Cities and Their Environments (Mark R. Montgomery, Jessie Pinchoff, and Erica K. Chuang).- Chapter 18. Population and Agricultural Change (Richard Bilsborrow).- Chapter 19. Population and Energy Consumption/Carbon Emissions: What We Know, What We Should Focus on Next (Brantley Liddle and Gregory Casey).- Part VI: Other arenas.- Chapter 20. Environment and Fertility (Samuel Sellers).- Chapter 21. Gender, Population and the Environment (Jessica Marter-Kenyon, Samuel Sellers, and Maia Call).- Chapter 22. Socio-Demographic Inequalities in Environmental Exposures (James R. Elliott and Kevin T. Smiley).- Part VI: Conclusion & Reflections.- Chapter 23. Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of Population-Environment Research (Barbara Entwisle).- Chapter 24. Environmental migration scholarship and policy: recent progress, future challenges (Robert McLeman).