Many environmental problems will be easier to address if world population peaks at 8 billion rather than continuing to grow to 11 billion or higher. The good news: there is already a global consensus on how to slow population growth, with programs that improve human well-being at very little cost.
Year: 2011
Source: PAI
PAI’s Population and Climate Change Program produced this working paper which reviews 41 National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) for Climate Change submitted by least developed countries (LDCs) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as of May 2009. The review found that 37 of the NAPAs link high and rapid population growth to climate change. However, only six plans clearly mention consideration for slowing population growth or investing in reproductive health/family planning (RH/FP) among their adaptation priority responses. Only two country NAPAs propose integrating FP and RH elements with priority adaptation interventions. The working paper presents conclusions and five recommendations for LDC governments to consider as they refine and implement the NAPAs, such as adopting multisectoral approaches to adaptation projects and offering both short and long term projects. The paper also provides an annex describing the NAPA process, including guidelines for development, implementation and financing of the plans.
Year: 2009
Source: PAI
The interactions between human population dynamics and the environment have often been viewed mechanistically. This review elucidates the complexities and contextual specificities of population environment relationships in a number of domains. It explores the ways in which demographers and other social scientists have sought to understand the relationships among a full range of population dynamics (e.g., population size, growth, density, age and sex composition, migration, urbanization, vital rates) and environmental changes. It then briefly reviews a number of the theories for understanding population and the environment and provides a state-of-the-art review of studies that have examined population dynamics and their relationship to five environmental issue areas. The review concludes by relating population-environment research to emerging work on human-environment systems.
Year: 2007
Source: Annual Review of Environment and Resources
People are part of both the problem of climate change and the solution. The challenge is to quantify that statement. This article reviews some of what has been learned so far. In addition to numbers of people, population includes demographic attributes like age, sex, education, health, and familial status; demographic processes like birth, death, migration, the formation of unions and families, and their dissolution; and the spatial distribution of people by geographic regions and size of settlements, from rural to urban. This paper reviews what demographers expect of the human population from now to 2050, then describes how people collectively affect climate and how climate affects the human population. The focus is on the available quantitative information, its implications, and its limitations. Finally, the paper offers some recommendations for action.
Year: 2010
Source: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
The Building Actors and Leaders for Advancing Community Excellence in Development (BALANCED) Project developed this publication to provide field-based practitioners of PHE projects with a comprehensive set of ideas and resources for project implementation, from project design to evaluation. This Guide provides brief explanations and links to tools that are considered most useful to PHE practitioners in different stages of PHE project design and implementation. It draws on best practices and approaches used by nongovernmental organizations implementing PHE projects and the BALANCED Project’s experience developing and assisting other organizations to develop PHE projects in Africa and Asia.
Year: 2013
Source: The BALANCED Project
The global PHE community consists of organizations and individuals with a wealth of knowledge and hands-on experience in PHE policy advocacy, operations research and program design and execution. This 2008 document provides detailed information on 15 past projects involving PHE approaches. Each project description explains the development challenges and the approaches taken to address them.
Year: 2008
Source: United States Agency for International Development
With support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Population Reference Bureau and Worldwatch Institute assembled a working group of experts from the climate change, family planning, and development assistance communities to examine the complex relationships between population dynamics and climate compatible development. The group’s goal was to identify approaches and opportunities to advance policy dialogue and policy action to include population dynamics, with an emphasis on family planning, into climate compatible development. The action opportunities fall under four strategic approaches which provide a path forward for groups interested in connecting these issues and ensuring that increasing access to family planning is part of efforts to achieve climate compatible development. Linking population, family planning, and climate change is unconventional for many policymakers. Cross-sectoral initiatives that highlight and integrate synergies in development plans and climate finance programs could reap enormous benefits as we tackle climate change.
Year: 2014
Source: Population Reference Bureau | Worldwatch Institute
This highly detailed program design manual begins by describing the evolution of PHE integrated projects, and why they remain relevant. It then lays out critical steps for designing and implementing a PHE project. These steps are not strictly sequential; there is more than one successful way to carry out a project. The steps are provided as a guideline for project designers to determine if they are on the right track. This document also aims to achieve longer and larger success in PHE projects by creating value-added synergies, and including sustainability and scalability in project design. Emphasis is placed on these components as crucial steps to designing a successful integrated project.
Year: 2007
Source: United States Agency for International Development
On March 31, 2016, the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III Project (FANTA) hosted a webinar to discuss why it is important to link family planning and food security, how family planning contributes to building resilience and promoting climate-compatible development, and how lessons and experiences from multisectoral population, health, and environment programs can be applied to food security programs.
Year: 2016
Source: FHI 360 | FANTA Project
This brief describes the reasoning behind population, health, and environment (PHE) projects, which aim to simultaneously improve access to health services and manage natural resources in ways that improve livelihoods and conserve critical ecosystems. These projects have demonstrated that implementing a comprehensive and integrated strategy which builds upon existing synergies between health, family planning, and the environment is more efficient than implementing separate programs to address each of these needs. The brief also discusses the history of US engagement in supporting PHE initiatives during the past 10 years and offers several policy recommendations to expand support to non-health sectors, strengthen the evidence base and reach new audiences, and scale-up PHE programs.
Year: 2014
Source: PAI
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