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The Social Dimensions of Population

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While the scientific understanding of environmental and demographic change, as studied separately, is increasing dramatically, our ability to link the two in any synthetic and holistic manner lags behind. The central argument of this paper will be that the scientific community cannot use current models and methodologies for understanding the dynamic relationship between population and environment, but needs a new framework. This new framework will need to extend key definitions of issues and concepts and propose new methods for researching them.

This text was originally published co-authored with Margarita Velázquez as: “The Social Dimensions of Population”, in: Arizpe, Lourdes; Stone, Priscilla; Major, David C. (Eds.): Population and environment: rethinking the debate (Boulder: Westview, 1994): 15–40. The permission was granted on 12 November 2013 by Melissa Malone, Perseus Book Group, the legal successor of Westview Press.

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Acknowledgments

Many of the ideas expressed in this section were discussed at meetings of the SSRC/ISSC/DAWN project described in the preface. Our thanks to Richard Rockwell, Gita Sen, William Clark, Rosina Wiltshire and Alberto Palloni.

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Arizpe, L., Velázquez, M. (2014). The Social Dimensions of Population. In: Migration, Women and Social Development. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06572-4_11

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