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 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
Submissions from 2012
Setting priorities, targeting subsidies among water, sanitation, and preventive health interventions in developing countries, Dale Whittington, March Jeuland, Kate Barker, and Yvonne Yuen
Submissions from 2011
Spatial scaling of stable night lights, Christopher Small, Christopher D. Elvidge, Deborah Balk, and Mark R. Montgomery
Urban growth, climate change, and freshwater availability, Robert I. McDonald, Pamela Green, Deborah Balk, Balazs M. Fekete, Carmen Revenga, Megan Todd, and Mark R. Montgomery
Submissions from 2009
Mapping urban settlements and the risks of climate change in Africa, Asia and South America, Deborah Balk, Mark R. Montgomery, Gordon McGranahan, Donghwan Kim, Valentina Mara, Megan Todd, Thomas Buettner, and Audrey Dorelien
Understanding the impacts of climate change: Linking satellite and other spatial data with population data, Deborah Balk, Mark R. Montgomery, Gordon McGranahan, and Megan Todd
Submissions from 2008
Multiple dimensions of urban well-being: Evidence from India, S. Chandrasekhar and Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
Submissions from 2006
Rural drinking water at supply and household levels: Quality and management, Bilqis A. Hoque, Kelly Hallman, Jason Levy, Howarth E. Bouis, Nahid Ali, Feroze Khan, Sufia Khanam, Mamun Kabir, Sanower Hossain, and Mohammad Shah Alam
Submissions from 2005
Population and sustainability, Geoffrey McNicoll
Submissions from 2001
Ecological degradation, rural poverty, and migration in Ethiopia: A contextual analysis, Markos Ezra
Submissions from 2000
Managing population-environment systems: Problems of institutional design, Geoffrey McNicoll