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Why Population Growth Matters to the Future of Forests
May 1, 2000
The world's forests provide goods and services essential to human and planetary well-being. But forests are disappearing faster today than ever before. Due both to deforestation and human population growth, the current ratio of forests to human beings is less thn half what it was in 1960. Yet we not only need more forests, we need forests more than ever beforeto protect the world's remaining plant and animal life, to prevent flooding, to slow human-induced climate change, and to provide the paper on which education and communication still depend. More efficient consumption of forest products and eventual stabilization of human populationa prospect that appears more promising today as birthrates declinewill be needed to conserve the world's forests in the coming millennium.
Nature's Place - Human Population and the Future of Biological Diversity
January 10, 2000
Nature's Place discusses how humans can preserve Earth and all its living species through the implementation on conservation programs. Questions raised in the report include, Does human population growth really matter to species loss? And Can policies and programs significantly influence human population trends, and can they do this while upholding the basic human right of couples and individuals to make their own decisions about reproduction, free from interference?
People in the Balance - Population and Natural Resources at the Turn of the Millennium
January 1, 2000
The interactive maps and data tables presented on these Web pages chronicle this growing scarcity in many of the world's countries. In each of the natural resource categories-water, land, forests, fisheries, carbon dioxide and biodiversity-a paragraph summarizes the global situation and leads to tabs that can be clicked to view an interactive map for that resource, along with one or more illustrative charts or world maps, a complete set of country data and a search engine that allows queries about specific countries and their natural resource availability or use.
Forest Futures - Population, Consumption, and Wood
January 1, 1999
The accelerating loss of the world's forests presents one of the major environmental challenges of the next century. The growth of human population-from a few million people in prehistory to 6 billion today-looms large among the factors contributing to this loss. Yet many analyses of forest decline despair that population growth is an inevitable force that must be reckoned with but cannot be influenced. This publication challenges that view. Its purpose is not only to examine population's role in forest loss, but also to highlight the value of population policies that simultaneously improve human well-being and brighten the prospects for conserving the world's remaining forests.
Plan and Conserve - A Source Book on Linking Population and Environmental Services in Communities
April 15, 1998
In recent years, dozens of environmental and development projects in developing countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia have attempted to integrate or otherwise link community-based activities related both to natural resources and to reproductive health. This publication profiles 42 such projects for which Population Action International (PAI) was able to document both natural resource conservation and reproductive health activities that included improved access to family planning services.
Profiles in Carbon - An Update on Population, Consumption, and Carbon Dioxide Emissions
January 1, 1998
Profiles in Carbon highlights the neglected linkage of population and climate, and illustrates the contribution that sound population policies could make to international efforts to slow climate change.
Sustaining Water, Easing Scarcity - A Second Update
May 1, 1997
Revised Data for the Population Action International Report, Sustaining Water: Population and the Future of Renewable Water Supplies
Why Population Matters: An Introduction
March 15, 1996
Population growth around the world affects Americans through its impact on the economy, the environment, and safety and health, and the habitability of the world our children will inherit. While tracing cause and effect is difficult the evidence is accumulating that current rates of population growth pose significant and interacting risks to human well-being and are a legitimate concern for Americans.
