World Population Awareness
Links: Population, Family Planning, Environmental, Research Resources
August 27, 2012
A+ Population Web Sites
The Population Resource Center
- bringing the latest demographic data to policymakers through policy briefings
Center for Biological Diversity Makes the Population Connection
"Through the empowerment of women, education of all people, universal access to birth control, and a societal commitment to ensuring that all species are given a chance to live and thrive, we can reduce our own population to an ecologically sustainable level. This will decrease human poverty and crowding, increase our standard of living, and sustain the lives of plants, animals, and ecosystems everywhere." .... Follow the link to a beautiful presentation on Overpopulation.
Facing the Future
A very comprehensive website, including educational materials and religion analysis.
Global Footprint Network
Our mission is to promote a sustainable economy by advancing the Ecological Footprint, a measurement tool that makes the reality of planetary limits relevant to decision-makers.
GrowthBusters
The End of Growth - Can We Embrace It? Urban growth, population growth, consumption growth, economic growth.
Measure Communication
Assesses information needs and helps plan and implement dissemination and data use
National Wildlife Federation:
a very comprehensive program, including impacts on the environment. Urges the U.S. to undertake a vigorous effort to stop illegal immigration into this country.
PAI Launches New Interactive Resource for Advocates
The Global Advocates' Country Database compiles and presents information on 192 countries across a variety of indicators. Select a country to see all data for that country, or view global results for specific indicators.
PopPlanet.org
... from Population Reference Bureau (PRB) and the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE)
Population Connection
- news, educational materials, teacher curriculum, research, activist training, etc
Population Reference Bureau:
provides timely information on U.S. and international population trends
Sierra Club - International Population Campaign
The 'population explosion' has severely disturbed the ecological relationships between human beings and the environment.
Terra Populus: Integrated Data on Population and Environment
Terra Populus will integrate the world's population and environmental data, including
* Population censuses and surveys
United States Committee for the United Nations Population Fund
The U.S. Committee builds moral, political, and financial support in the United States for the work of the UN Population Fund
World of 7 Billion Website
The World of 7 Billion campaign is an educational resource for both students and teachers. Human population is set to hit seven billion by the end of 2011. As we approach this immense milestone, it is important to understand how we got here, analyze the impact of our choices, and realize that our decisions can and will impact the future.
Population Web Sites
American Association for the Advancement of Science
-Population and Sustainable Development (PSD) Program
CNIE - Committee for the National Institute for the Environment
- Marking a World Population of 6 Billion - A Collection of Online Resources
The Population Resource Center
- bringing the latest demographic data to policymakers through policy briefings
Lifewatch Group Ltd
Is this the future we hope for our children? This website has a nice essay on overpopulation.
Overpopulation - So Gulliver Returns
Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. Follow the link to read this on-line book.
Overpopulation.net
"Find out the latest true numbers why we have passed the point of sustainability and our population is now crashing." This site has a paper briefly covering the topic of overpopulation. One interesting opinion expressed in the year 2000 at this site is that ZPG will occur in 2029 @ 6.90 billion. Since the U.N. says it is now at 6.2 billion, that is only .7 billion to go. The current estimate (2002) of annual population growth is 76 or 77 million. The author claims 60.1 in 2000. The web site's left news column seems to be the result of news article 'searches' on the word population and overpopulation, which results in a lot of articles about pet spaying, but some useful information may be found there.
Population Media
Using the media to motivate family planning, AIDS prevention, and respect for women
Voluntary Human Extinction: Population Overload
Near the instant when the world's population reached 6.5 billion, Les Knight was carrying his Voluntary Human Extinction message to an environmental conference in Oregon. How, he wonders aloud, can he invite people to cross from idle interest in overpopulation to a commitment: No more children? But before a viewer can as much as mouth "Six billion five-hundred million nine-hundred-sixty thousand one-hundred seventy-four," the number has jumped to 6,500,960,182. Despite low fertility in developed countries and high mortality in developing countries, despite increasing birth control, the world's population has jumped a billion since 1993 and could reach 7 billion in 2012 and stabilize at 9 billion in 2050, much concentrated in mega-cities such as Tokyo, Bombay, Shanghai, Sao Paulo, and New York-Newark. In Africa, HIVS and ethnic warfare have markedly increased mortality; yet 77 million people have fattened the global population each year since 2000. They come from six countries: India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, the United States and Bangladesh. It's not that Knight is rooting for the latest H5N1 bird flu to make a pandemic trimming as many as 1 billion from humanity's roster. Knight wants attention to the subject. "Every day, thousands of children die of preventable diseases and starvation," adding that human beings need to "quit being people-centered and think about the whole earth." Reproductive freedom, immigration, use and distribution of resources, get messy. "It's easier to talk about no clear-cutting (of forests) or the exotic animal trade," Knight says. He wants humanity to shed old notions and embrace an international and cross-species awareness. That starts with exploring what the numbers imply. Population is an element of nearly every social concern and should be dealt with in context. Population trouble starts with density that, when resulting in overcrowding, can be spread out. No-growth notions seem to shatter human biology and also run up against a determined optimism and faith. "What can I do about it?" Instead of having a baby, adopt one. Instead of driving a car, buy a bike. People need to assess their reproductive choices and get real about how lives and nations and cultures interconnect.
Reproductive Health and Women's Groups
AVSC International
access to voluntary and safe contraception - has changed it's name to Engender Health
Alan Guttmacher Institute:
mostly reproductive health - lots of studies and statistics, especially on family planning & teen pregnancy
Fill My Pills Now
In an outrageous move to stop women from preventing unintended pregnancies, some pharmacists across the country have refused to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception and other birth control pills. The reason? They believe it is in conflict with their moral beliefs. Birth control is basic health care and restricting access to prescriptions is nothing short of discrimination. Don't let ideology trump sound science- join the Fill My Pills Now campaign today.
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
The mission of NLIRH is to ensure the fundamental human right to reproductive health for Latinas, their families and their communities through education, advocacy and coalition building.
The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS)
Sexuality is a natural and healthy part of living. Advocates the right of individuals to make responsible sexual choices
US Agency for International Development
- programs focus on family planning, child survival, prevention of HIV/AIDS
Environmental Groups:
Action Network
Action Network utilizes the power and speed of the Internet to help people take action online for the environment and gives busy people who are concerned about the environment a way to get involved and feel empowered. It features action alerts from us (Population Action International) and more than 170 other environment, population and public health organizations and coalitions. With over 800,000 activists and growing, the site is among the largest and oldest online activism hubs on the World Wide Web.
On-line Encyclopedia for Sustainable Development and Global Security
A life support system is any natural or human-engineered system that furthers the life of the biosphere in a sustainable fashion. The fundamental attribute of life support systems is that together they provide all of the needs required for continuance of life. These needs go far beyond biological requirements. Thus, life support systems encompass natural environmental systems as well as ancillary social systems required to foster societal harmony, safety, nutrition, medical care, economic standards, development of new technology, etc. The one common thread in all of these systems is that they operate in partnership with the conservation of global natural resources.
World Volunteer Organizations:Listserves, Forums, News ServicesWOA!!s Population News Weekly To receive WOA!!s weekly email population and environment news, send an email message to karen4329@karengaia.net
BOL(The South Asian e-list on Gender and Reproductive Health and Rights)
Bol is a space for people and organizations within South Asia and outside to come together and discuss and work on issues of gender, reproductive health and rights and legal developments pertaining to human rights within the region. Bol is a bulletin board where you can post information about activities - conferences, workshops, rallies; and about resources - networks, people and organizations. You can also use this list to publicize events that would be difficult to publicize otherwise. To subscribe, send a message to: majordomo@mos.com.np with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe bol
Global Intersections
- Population, Sexual & Reproductive Health, and The Environment - A Monthly News Digest and Information Service of Population Communications International. Subscribe to Global Intersections--free of cost--by sending an e-mail to: majordomo@bway.net - in the body of the message type: subscribe global-intersections
Johns Hopkins Population Information Program "The PopReporter"
electronic magazine: focusing on reproductive health, family planning, and related health communication topics
Population and Demography Forum
A new forum on population and demographics. Looks like some folks already on the forum take this subject seriously.
Resources, Demographics
Country Profiles for Population and Reproductive Health
Click on the headline link for a very useful UNFPA/PRB publication. It contains more than 100 demographic and health indicators from developing countries, including information for tracking progress on the ICPD and Millennium Development Goals. It covers basic demographic trends, as well as social and economic indicators, and statistics on maternal and child health, adolescent reproductive health, education, HIV and AIDS, gender equality and demand for reproductive health services. It also tracks internal disparities and public financing for health and education, and maps progress toward meeting the MDGs.
Family Planning: a Global Handbook for Providers
The John Hopkins University INFO Project and WHO is publishing the on-line edition of this 372-page book in stages. The first 13 chapters are available;, additional chapters will become available over the next few weeks. Family planning is regaining priority status throughout the developing world. The Family Planning handbook brings together evidence on family planning methods and related topics from among 30 health organizations around the world. More than 100 million married women want to prevent pregnancy but are not using a contraceptive. Services and supplies are not yet available everywhere; fears of social disapproval or partner's opposition pose formidable barriers. Worries about side effects prevent many women from using contraception. This Handbook is the single most authoritative resource for family planning in the developing world and is used extensively by family planning providers in the developing world. Follow the headline link to this online book.
GDP Per Capita by Country
Ranks countries by per capita GDP. Surprisingly, the United States ranks 9th or 10th, depending on whether you are looking at statistics from the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, or the CIA World Factbook
Guttmacher Institute Launches New International Data Center
Allows Users to Create Customized Tables, Graphs and Maps With the Most Current Data Available from 75 countries and 22 world regions. The available data include safe and unsafe abortion rates; intended and unintended pregnancy rates; maternal health care provision; contraceptive use and unmet need for family planning; and reproductive health indicators for adolescents.
Pew Center on the States
News - current and archived, transportation, population, and other items of interest - for each state.
Population & Economic Development Linkages 2007 Data Sheet
Many resources have been poured into family planning and reproductive health programs, but little is known about how these investments affect helping people out of poverty. Demographic change affects economic development and the two tend to be related. The Population Reference Bureau's Population & Economic Development Linkages 2007 Data Sheet explores some of these links. This data sheet looks at health, poverty, and economic indicators both within and among countries. This information should be of interest to policymakers and planners in guiding their countries' future economic development. It provides up-to-date data on population, inequalities within developing countries, and economic opportunities. Data covered includes the percent of married women using modern contraception by wealth group, number of working-age adults per dependent child, and percent of females enrolled in secondary school.
Population-Environment Research Network
The Population-Environment Research Network seeks to advance academic research on population and the environment by promoting on-line scientific exchange among researchers from social and natural science disciplines worldwide. Features a searchable library, seminars, and job or study opportunities. PERN is a project of The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), and the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) on Global Environmental Change.
State of the Planet, in Graphics
Globally human populations are growing, trade is increasing, and living standards are rising for many. But, according to the UN's latest Global Environment Outlook report, long-term problems including climate change, pollution, access to clean water, and the threat of mass extinctions are being met with "a remarkable lack of urgency". Follow the link to see the state of the planet, in graphics.
The Futures Group International
Has software and computer models to project the social and economic impacts of high fertility and rapid population growth.
The Shape We're In - Science Magazine Series
In Nov 2003 Science magazine is detailed a series of articles that will be published in the coming months - a group of short Viewpoints about some of the common resources--air, fresh water, fisheries, food and soil, energy--and key trends--in human population, biodiversity, and climate--that are most important for our general well-being. Topics will be: "Prospects for Biodiversity," "Tropical Soils and Food Security," "The Future for Fisheries," "Global Freshwater Resources: Soft-Path Solutions for the 21st Century," "Energy Resources and Global Development," and "Global Air Quality and Pollution." On December 12 Science will present a special issue on the "Tragedy of the Commons," the classic metaphor of the late Garret Hardin which appeared 35 years ago, in which some contemporary ideas about the management of shared resources will be discussed.
Three Decades of Population Policies and Programs
Three decades ago, it appeared that the "population bomb" would undermine development in the Third World and little could be done about it. This book takes the reader back to the first efforts by 23 countries to field programs to deal with the threat. Few public programs had attempted to reduce excessive fertility and provide contraceptives to whole populations. The 23 cases of the family planning tell the story. Their successes and faulures were original. These essays recount the experience of the men and women who led the efforts and provides a unique look inside the programs. They offer guidance to other health-related objectives that are now emerging. The rise of new threats (HIV-AIDS and others) make it clear that new health services and interventions into human behavior will continue to be vital. The organizational structures and behavior-modification campaigns needed can learn much from the pioneering efforts at reducing fertility. Follow the link to this PDF for details.
United Nations Population Division: 2006 Revision of World Population Prospects Released
The 2006 Revision of World Population Prospects incorporates the full results of the 2000 round of national population censuses and the surveys carried out in developing countries. For the first time assessments of AIDA includes the demographic impact of antiretroviral therapy. Recent information from UNAIDS is used, as well as newly available information on HIV/AIDS prevalence rates. This has led to lower estimates of AIDS-related mortality in several African countries. The 2006 Revision is available in electronic form from the website of the Population Division http://www.unpopulation.org where data can be accessed and tabulated on demand through an interactive database. A number of hard copy publications including the data volumes, an analytical report and a poster will be issued in the coming months.
Visualizing the Value of Nature
Visualizing.org illustrates the value of nature and our use of nature's services.The group joined up with TEEB (the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity), a UN-sponsored effort to put a dollar figure on nature's services such as providing fuel, food, water and habitat, by assessing both their economic benefits and the costs associated with their depletion. Uses Global Footprint Network data to graphically show the relationship between countries' ecological demand, their biocapacity and the size of their deficit or reserve.
Links
Five E's Unlimited
Check out the Five E's web site (www.eeeee.net) for updates and new material. Present projects include (1) Developing a Sustainability Plan for the Municipality of Whistler BC, Canada -www.whistlerfuture.com/thinkit/pdfs/Whistler_Sustainit3.pdf; (2) Designing the structure for a non- profit organization, Sustainable DC (Washington - www.SustainableDC.org). (3) Carrying out activities in sustainability education for the project, "Earth Child" (with Beyond Creation - www.beyondcreation.org). This year's Conference is entitled "Education for a Sustainable and Secure Future" and Five E's is helping to develop a "Strategy for a National Public Communications Campaign on Sustainable Development" (www.ncseonline.org/conference). E-mail rwflint@eeeee.net.
Population 2005 Website
A Global Alliance to Promote the Program of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development. the new website provides a convenient avenue for individuals and organizations to learn about Population 2005’s work to promote the Program of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development. The site is being continually updated with news and commentary reproductive health and sustainable development.
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