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 2018
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
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