NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

MIEHR researchers published their first manuscript describing a study that recruited Black and white women at major obstetric hospitals in Houston where they presented summaries of data that had been ...

In this Working Paper, part of a series from CFR’s Women and Foreign Policy program, Geoffrey Dabelko argues that support of, and funding for, PHE approaches should be increased because PHE programs ...

In recent years, the idea of having fewer children or not having children at all has been put forward by some climate activists as way to tackle climate change. A few scientific studies have ...

Our health and environment are deeply interconnected. The exploitation of people, animals and nature drives the environmental crises we face today and damages the health of the most marginalized ...

When Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich published The Population Bomb in 1968, he predicted that the 1970s would see an unavoidable period of widespread famine and death. That decade—and many ...

In recent years, many climate advocates have emphasized human population itself—as opposed to related factors such as consumption and technology—as the driving force behind environmental destruction.

Suggested Citation: "PART I--PANEL REPORT: Executive Summary." National Research Council. 2005. Population, Land Use, and Environment: Research Directions. Washington ...