Assessing immigration, population and environment

 

1. A growing debate

2. Population growth: Environmental disaster?

3. Contrarians speak

Related Why Files
6,000,000,000 people.

Hybrid cars

Global warming

Population and shortages

Freshwater shortages

Dirt -- can't live without it!

Paper
The Environmental Implications of Population Dynamics, Lori Hunter, Population Matters, RAND Corp., 2000.

Globalization and Sustainability: Conflict or Convergence? William Rees, Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 22 (4): 249-268 (August 2002)

How Many Americans? Leon Bouvier and Lindsey Grant, Sierra Club Books, 1994.

Lack of Border Policy May Erase Sierra Club Gains, Richard Lamm, San Francisco Chronicle, Apr. 12, 2004.

Living Planet Report 2002. Worldwide Fund For Nature (ecological footprint analysis).

Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth. Wackernagel, M. and W.E. Rees. 1996. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers.

Re-Charting America's Future, Roy Beck, Social Contract Press, Petosky, Mich. 1994

Electronic
Organizations

Population Action International

The Carrying Capacity Network

Numbers USA tackles immigration

Population-Environment Balance

World Values Survey

The Earth Policy Institute

Sixteen myths about population from The Population Media Center.

Federation for American Immigration Reform

Migration Policy Institute

Information & Statistics

U.S. population today.

Migration Information Source

Center for Immigration Studies

The U.S. Census Bureau's Factfinder

The U.S. Census Bureau measures the foreign-born population in the U.S.

Population Reference Bureau

Personal/Academic Sites

David Pimentel, Department of Entomology, Cornell University

William Rees, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia

Alberto Palloni, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Richard Bilsborrow, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina

Lori Hunter, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at Boulder

Miscellaneous

NOVA's World in the Balance special

Population resources for K-12 teachers

Greenhouse gases are accumulating ever-faster.

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