Climate and environmental change impacts human health, society, and the planet, and the most severe harms fall disproportionately upon marginalized people and communities who have contributed the least to the crisis. The Population Council’s initiative on Population, Environmental Risks, and the Climate Crisis (PERCC) generates ideas and conducts research on sustainable and equitable solutions to pursue justice in the face of climate and environmental change.
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Submissions from 2024
ACT now: Words, actions, and values in tackling the human dimensions of the climate crisis, Jack DeWaard
Classifying climate vulnerability and inequalities in India, Mexico, and Nigeria: A latent class analysis approach, Jessie Pinchoff, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra, Raman Mishra, Adebola Adedimeji, Sangram Kishor Patel, and Ricardo Regules
Drivers of clean fuel adoption and consumption intensity at the household level in Pakistan, Ashar Awan, Dil Bahadur Rahut, Maqsood Sadiq, and Daniel Balsalobre Lorente
Explore Pathways to Climate Justice with the Council’s Population, Environmental Risks, and the Climate Crisis (PERCC) Initiative, Population Council
Extreme heat and domestic violence in Mexico, Ricardo Regules-García, Jessie Pinchoff, Ana Ruth Escoto Castillo, and Ana Cristina Gómez-Ugarte
From climate to health crisis: The vulnerabilities of migrant women affected by climate change, Deepshikha Sharma
Navigating the Climate Crisis: Q&A with Dr. Deepshikha Sharma, Population Council
New York City Town+Gown Climate Vulnerability, Impact, and Adaptation Analysis: Final Report, Timon McPhearson, Joel Towers, et al., Leiwen Jiang, and Hamidreza Zoraghein
Ozone-related acute excess mortality projected to increase in the absence of climate and air quality controls consistent with the Paris Agreement, Nina G.G. Domingo, Arlene M. Fiore, Jean-Francois Lamarque, Patrick L. Kinney, Leiwen Jiang, Antonio Gasparrini, and et al.
Population change in wildfire-affected areas in the United States: Evidence from U.S. Postal Service residential address data, Jack DeWaard, Alexander M. Din, Kathryn McConnell, and Elizabeth Fussell
Rare and highly destructive wildfires drive human migration in the U.S., Kathryn McConnell, Elizabeth Fussell, Jack DeWaard, Stephan D. Whitaker, Katherine J. Curtis, Lise St. Denis, Jennifer Balch, and Kobie Price
Sub-national population projections for Mexico under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) in the context of climate change, Ricardo Regules-García, Ana C. Gomez-Ugarte, Hamidreza Zoraghein, and Leiwen Jiang
The Migration Intersections Grid: An organizing framework for migration research in and through the twenty-first century, Amina Maharjan, Angel del Valle, Annabel Erulkar, Arabinda Mishra, Catherine Steidl, Chandni Singh, Deepshikha Sharma, Fernando Riosmena, Gabriela Pinillos, Guy Abel, Jack DeWaard, Jasmine Trang Ha, Katharine M. Donato, Nyovani Janet Madise, Raphael Nawrotzki, Rene Nevarez, Robert McLeman, and Salma Abou Hussein
Submissions from 2023
Changes in migration determinants along the urban hierarchy in China, Michael White, Liangliang Sun, and Leiwen Jiang
Climate-related experiences and harms in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from a survey of 152,088 Mexican youth, Ricardo Regules, Jessie Pinchoff, Ana C. Gomez-Ugarte, Tara Abularrage, Isabel Vieitez Martínez, and Thoai Ngo
Coping with climate change: The role of climate related stressors in affecting the mental health of young people in Mexico, Jessie Pinchoff, Ricardo Regules, Ana C. Gomez-Ugarte, Tara Abularrage, and Ietza Bojorquez
Dataset: Classifying climate vulnerability and inequalities in India, Mexico, and Nigeria: A latent class analysis approach, Jessie Pinchoff
Demographic trends and population health: Tackling inequality in a world of eight billion people, Thoai Ngo
Effective Climate Adaptation, Jessie Pinchoff and Corinne White
El impacto del cambio climático en la salud: experiencias de la juventud de Bangladesh, Guatemala y Nigeria, Population Council and Women Deliver
El impacto del cambio climático en los medios de subsistencia y en las oportunidades educativas de la juventud, Population Council and Women Deliver
En quoi le changement climatique contribue-t-il à façonner les moyens de subsistance et les possibilités d'éducation des jeunes?, Population Council and Women Deliver
Exploring the urban gradient in population health: Insights from satellite-derived urbanicity classes across multiple countries and years in sub-Saharan Africa, Peter M. Macharia, Jessie Pinchoff, Cameron Taylor, and Lenka Benova
Guatemala’s Western Highlands: Addressing gendered vulnerability to climate change, Jessie Pinchoff and Angel del Valle
How climate change is shaping young people’s livelihoods and educational opportunities, Population Council and Women Deliver
How Climate Change Threatens Mental Health & Well-Being—A Case Study from Mexico, Ricardo Regules, Ietza Bojorquez, and Jessie Pinchoff
Learning to Adapt: The vital role of education and gender equity in climate justice, Nicole Haberland and Jessie Pinchoff
Les effets du changement climatique sur la santé : expériences vécues par des jeunes du Bangladesh, du Guatemala et du Nigeria, Population Council and Women Deliver
Migration as a vector of economic losses from disaster-affected areas in the United States, Jack DeWaard, Elizabeth Fussell, Katherine J. Curtis, Stephan D. Whitaker, Kathryn McConnell, Kobie Price, Michael Soto, and Catalina Anampa Castro
Population and environment: The evolution of the debate between optimists and pessimists, John Bongaarts
The Data Behind Climate Investing: An Earth Day Q&A with Jack DeWaard, Population Council
The health effects of climate change: Experiences of young people in Bangladesh, Guatemala, and Nigeria, Population Council and Women Deliver
Vaccines for a sustainable planet, Simone Pecetta, Arindam Nandi, Charlie Weller, Vanessa Harris, Helen Fletcher, Francesco Berlanda Scorza, Mariagrazia Pizza, David Salisbury, Richard Moxon, Steve Black, David E. Bloom, and Rino Rappuoli
Water and handwashing in a drought-prone region of southern Niger: How environment, household infrastructure, and exposure to social and behavior change messages interact, Jessie Pinchoff, Leanne Dougherty, and Chaibou Dadi
Submissions from 2022
2022 Pakistan floods: Population estimates and vulnerabilities of people affected by floods in Pakistan, Maqsood Sadiq and Muhammad Khalil
Climate change vulnerability, and health of women and children: Evidence from India using district level data, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra, Trisha Chaudhuri, and Niranjan Saggurti
Effects and resilience to climate crisis among adolescents: A narrative review on South Asian countries, Sangram Kishor Patel and Rahul Rajak
Frameworks to envision equitable urban futures in a changing climate: A multi-level, multidisciplinary case study of New York City, Deborah Balk, Daniela Tagtachian, Leiwen Jiang, Peter Marcotullio, Elizabeth M. Cook, Bryan Jones, Ahmed Mustafa, and Timon McPhearson
Has urbanization slowed down in Pakistan?, G.M. Arif, Maqsood Sadiq, Zeba Sathar, Leiwen Jiang, and Sabahat Hussain
Is living in a region with high groundwater arsenic contamination associated with adverse reproductive health outcomes? An analysis using nationally representative data from India, Jessie Pinchoff, Brent Monseur, Sapna Desai, Katelyn Koons, Ruben Alvero, and Michelle J. Hindin
Pakistan Climate Crises Charter 2022, WWF
People and infrastructure: Multi-scale assessment of coastal and fluvial flood exposure in India, Hamidreza Zoraghein, Jessie Pinchoff, Deborah Balk, Mark R. Montgomery, and Hasim Engin
The importance of reclassification to understanding urban growth: A demographic decomposition of the United States, 1990–2010, Leiwen Jiang, Bryan Jones, Deborah Balk, and Brian C. O'Neill
Water scarcity and human (im)mobility: Identifying internal migration patterns driven by water depletion across 72 countries, Population Council
Submissions from 2021
Application of the Breakthrough RESEARCH social and behavior change costing guidelines to the RISE II Project in Niger, Nicole M. Bellows, Lori Bollinger, and Rudolph Chandler
“Burnt by the scorching sun”: Climate-induced livelihood transformations, reproductive health, and fertility trajectories in drought-affected communities of Zambia, Joseph G. Rosen, Drosin Mulenga, Lyson Phiri, Natasha Okpara, Caila Brander, Nachela Chelwa, and Michael Mbizvo
Cities and their environments, Mark R. Montgomery, Jessie Pinchoff, and Erica Chuang
Climate change and vulnerability: Enhancing the adaptive capacity of the population of Pakistan, G.M. Arif, Kiren Khan, and Zeba Sathar
Conducting Research in Humanitarian Settings: A Learning Session, Thoai Ngo, Judith Bruce, Pooja Sripad, Rima Mourtada, Myriam Narcisse, Neha S. Singh, Hannah Tappis, Chi-Chi Undie, and Ashish Bajracharya
Global harmonization of urbanization measures: Proceed with care, Deborah Balk, Stefan Leyk, Mark R. Montgomery, and Hasim Engin
Impacts of climate change in vulnerable communities in Sindh, Pakistan: Voices from the community, Kiren Khan, Mumraiz Khan, Tahira Parveen, and Sabahat Hussain
Importance of insurance mechanisms in natural disasters' risk mitigation: A case study in India, Sangram Kishor Patel, Saradiya Mukherjee, and Ankit Nanda
Insights Collection: Natural disasters and humanitarian settings, Nannette Beckley, Anne-Caroline Midy, Danielle Richard, and Lauren R. Rutherford
The association between agricultural conditions and multiple dimensions of undernutrition in children 6–23 months of age in Burkina Faso, Jessie Pinchoff, William Turner, and Kathryn Grace
The impact of natural disasters and epidemics on sexual and reproductive health in low- and middle-income countries: A narrative synthesis, Samantha Loewen, Jessie Pinchoff, Thoai Ngo, and Michelle J. Hindin
Use of effective lids reduces presence of mosquito larvae in household water storage containers in urban and peri-urban Zika risk areas of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, Jessie Pinchoff, Martha Silva, Kathryn Spielman, and Paul Hutchinson
Vulnerability of agriculture to climate change increases the risk of child malnutrition: Evidence from a large-scale observational study in India, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra, Monika Walia, Chitiprolu Anantha Rama Rao, Bellapukonda Murali Krishna Raju, and Niranjan Saggurti
Submissions from 2020
A review of disasters in Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh region in India, Sangram Kishor Patel, Ankit Nanda, Govind Singh, and Sunita Patel
A spatial population downscaling model for integrated human-environment analysis in the United States, Hamidreza Zoraghein and Brian C. O'Neill
Editorial to the special issue on environment and population dynamics in South Asia, Sangram Kishor Patel
Effect of exposure to PM10 on child health: Evidence based on a large-scale survey from 184 cities in India, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra, Monika Walia, Wiliam Robert Avis, and Niranjan Saggurti
Mapping geographical inequalities in access to drinking water and sanitation facilities in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17, Local Burden of Disease WaSH Collaborators and Sangram Kishor Patel
Mapping geographical inequalities in oral rehydration therapy coverage in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17, Local Burden of Disease Diarrhoea Collaborators and Sangram Kishor Patel
Población, Riesgos Ambientales y Cambio Climático (PERCC), Population Council
Population, Environmental Risks, and the Climate Crisis (PERCC), Population Council
Population scenarios for U.S. states consistent with Shared Socioeconomic Pathways, Leiwen Jiang, Brian C. O'Neill, Hamidreza Zoraghein, and Steve Dahlke
Rainfall shocks, cognitive development and educational attainment among adolescents in a drought-prone region in Kenya, Laura Nübler, Karen Austrian, John A. Maluccio, and Jessie Pinchoff
The effect of education on determinants of climate change risks, Brian C. O'Neill, Leiwen Jiang, Samir KC, Regina Fuchs, Shonali Pachauri, Emily K. Laidlow, Tiantian Zhang, Wei Zhou, and Xiaolin Ren
The migration intentions of young Egyptians, Amr Abdelwahed, Anne Goujon, and Leiwen Jiang
Understanding the resilience and mental health impacts of natural disasters in India: A narrative review, Sangram Kishor Patel, Gopal Agrawal, and Bincy Mathew
Urbanization and health: The effects of the built environment on chronic disease risk factors among women in Tanzania, Jessie Pinchoff, Carrie W. Mills, and Deborah Balk
U.S. state-level projections of the spatial distribution of population consistent with shared socioeconomic pathways, Hamidreza Zoraghein and Brian C. O'Neill
Voices of rural people: Community-level assessment of effects and resilience to natural disasters in Odisha, India, Sangram Kishor Patel, Bincy Mathew, Ankit Nanda, Biswajit Mohanty, and Niranjan Saggurti
Submissions from 2019
A review on extreme weather events and livelihood in Odisha, India, Sangram Kishor Patel, Bincy Mathew, Ankit Nanda, Sanghamitra Pati, and Hiralal Nayak
Climate change and contraception, John Bongaarts and Régine Sitruk-Ware
Climate change and women in South Asia: A review and future policy implications, Sangram Kishor Patel, Gopal Agrawal, Bincy Mathew, Sunita Patel, Biswajit Mohanty, and Abhishek Singh
Climate, population, and vulnerability in Pakistan: Exploring evidence of linkages for adaptation, G.M. Arif, Muhammad Riaz, Nadeem Faisal, Mohammad Jamal Khan Khattak, Zeba Sathar, Muhammad Khalil, Maqsood Sadiq, Sabahat Hussain, and Kiren Khan
Empirically based spatial projections of US population age structure consistent with the shared socioeconomic pathways, Erich Striessnig, Jing Gao, Brian C. O'Neill, and Leiwen Jiang
Evidence-based process for prioritizing positive behaviors for promotion: Zika prevention in Latin America and the Caribbean and applicability to future health emergency responses, Jessie Pinchoff, Arianna Serino, Alice Payne Merritt, Gabrielle Hunter, Martha Silva, Priya Parikh, and Paul C. Hewett
Spatio-temporal patterns of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in relation to drinking water salinity at the district level in Bangladesh from 2016 to 2018, Jessie Pinchoff, Mohammad Shamsudduha, Sharif M.I. Hossain, Abdullah Al Mahmud Shohag, and Charlotte E. Warren
The heterogeneity and change in the urban structure of metropolitan areas in the United States, 1990–2010, Stefan Leyk, Deborah Balk, Bryan Jones, Mark R. Montgomery, and Hasim Engin
Urbanization in India: Population and urban classification grids for 2011, Deborah Balk, Mark R. Montgomery, Hasim Engin, Natalie Lin, Elizabeth Major, and Bryan Jones
Submissions from 2018
Building resilience in communities most vulnerable to environmental stressors, Jessie Pinchoff
Climate change-induced hazards and local adaptations in agriculture: A study from Koshi River Basin, Nepal, Abid Hussain, Golam Rasul, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra, Shahriar Wahid, and Sabarnee Tuladhar
Climate change, resilience, and population dynamics in Pakistan: A case study of the 2010 floods in Mianwali District, Zeba Sathar, Muhammad Khalil, Sabahat Hussain, Maqsood Sadiq, and Kiren Khan
Community-level assessment of droughts in Odisha: Effects, resilience, and implications, Sangram Kishor Patel
Community-level assessment of floods and cyclones in coastal Odisha, India: Impact, resilience, and implications, Sangram Kishor Patel
Community-level assessment of heatwaves in Odisha State, India: Effects, resilience and implications, Sangram Kishor Patel
Determinants of urban growth during demographic and mobility transitions: Evidence from India, Mexico, and the US, Leiwen Jiang and Brian C. O'Neill
Equity, environmental justice, and urban climate change, Diana Reckien, Shuaib Lwasa, David Satterthwaite, Darryn McEvoy, Felix Creutzig, Mark R. Montgomery, Daniel Schensul, Deborah Balk, Iqbal Alam Khan, Blanca Fernandez, Donald Brown, Juan Camilo Osorio, Marcela Tovar-Restrepo, Alex de Sherbinin, Wim Feringa, Alice Sverdlik, Emma Porio, Abhishek Nair, Sabrina McCormick, and Eddie Bautista
Extreme weather events induced deaths in India 2001–2014: Trends and differentials by region, sex and age group, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra, Monika Walia, and Niranjan Saggurti
Family planning and resilience: Associations found in a Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) project in Western Tanzania, Karen Hardee, Kristen P. Patterson, Anika Schenck-Fontaine, Sebastiaan Hess, Craig Leisher, Clive Mutunga, Cheryl Margoluis, and Cara Honzak
Food and nutrition security in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, Golam Rasul, Abid Hussain, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra, and Narendra Dangol
Global warming policy: Is population left out in the cold?, John Bongaarts and Brian C. O'Neill
Multidimensional poverty in mountainous regions: Shan and Chin in Myanmar, Sanjay Kumar Mohanty, Golam Rasul, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra, Dhrupad Choudhury, Sabarnee Tuladhar, and E. Valdemar Holmgren
Understanding urbanization: A study of census and satellite-derived urban classes in the United States, 1990–2010, Deborah Balk, Stefan Leyk, Bryan Jones, Mark R. Montgomery, and Anastasia Clark
Submissions from 2017
Resilience and community response to climate-related events: Case studies from four countries, Aviva Klein Meyers and Karen Hardee
Submissions from 2016
Analyzing the building blocks of resilience: Findings from a baseline survey of the Tuungane Population, Health, and Environment Project in western Tanzania, Kristin Bietsch, Reshma Naik, Kristen P. Patterson, Cara Honzak, Mustafa Kudrati, Hellen Magige, Cheryl Margoluis, Laura Subramanian, Christopher Hale, Carolyn Lamere, Sebastiaan Hess, and Craig Leisher
Climate change and climate-induced disasters in Odisha, eastern India: Impacts, adaptation and future policy implications, Sangram Kishor Patel
Submissions from 2014
Water on an urban planet: Urbanization and the reach of urban water infrastructure, Robert I. McDonald, Katherine Weber, Julie Padowski, Martina Florke, Christof Schneider, Pamela Green, Thomas Gleeson, Stephanie Eckman, Bernhard Lehner, Deborah Balk, Timothy Boucher, Gunther Grill, and Mark R. Montgomery