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Integrating the Environment into Population Research

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International Handbook of Population and Environment

Part of the book series: International Handbooks of Population ((IHOP,volume 10))

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Both the quality and quantity of population-environment scholarship have grown substantially over the past several decades. This introductory chapter briefly summarizes key scientific advancements over this period in the areas of migration, fertility, and population health and mortality. Following these summaries, the Handbook’s specific, topical chapters are situated within this broad understanding of population-environment research. In the end, the authors encourage the scientific community to continue pursuing innovative and important advancements in knowledge, and they further conclude that mainstreaming environmental considerations into population scholarship has become particularly imperative in the context of contemporary climate change.

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Acknowledgements

We owe a great debt of gratitude to Dr. Dudley Poston for coverage in this chapter’s introductory section of ecological research in the 1950s. In addition, this work has benefited from support provided by the University of Colorado Population Center (Project 2P2CHD066613-06), funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The content is solely the responsibility of the author and does not necessarily represent the official views of the CUPC, NIH or CU Boulder.

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    Lori M. Hunter

  2. Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Clark Gray

  3. Institut national d’études démographiques (Ined), Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers Cedex, France

    Jacques Veron

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Hunter, L.M., Gray, C., Veron, J. (2022). Integrating the Environment into Population Research. In: Hunter, L.M., Gray, C., Véron, J. (eds) International Handbook of Population and Environment. International Handbooks of Population, vol 10. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76433-3_1

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