Lifestyle Choices Affect U.S. Impact on the Environment
At 300 million, a milestone reached in October, Americans are consuming natural resources at an unprecedented pace. Between 1950 and 2005, America’s population nearly doubled.
Area of Expertise: Children, Youth, and Families
A New Way to Address Poverty Alleviation
(2006) Over the past decade, a growing number of small population-environment field projects, funded principally by the David & Lucile Packard Foundation and the U.S.
India’s Population: Reconciling Change and Tradition
(2006) This Population Bulletin presents a demographic portrait of the diverse country of India in the early years of the 21st century and offers insight into some of the forces driving continued growth and change.
Using Return Migration As a Development Tool—Are the Right Policies in Place?
(September 2006) The conventional wisdom about return migrants is that they are retirees who always intended to return to their country of origin.
The United States at 300 Million
HOW WE HAVE CHANGED SINCE THE UNITED STATES WAS A NATION OF 200 MILLION (September 2006) The United States is set to reach a milestone in October.
Improving Data Collection Efforts to Estimate HIV/AIDS
(September 2006) Not so long ago, many wondered if the population of Africa would be “wiped out” by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. As serious as the situation was and is, those doomsday projections were unwarranted.
Designing Health and Population Programs to Reach the Poor
(September 2006) Nearly everywhere in the developing world, health services benefit the well-off more than the poor.
What Can Be Done to Protect the Chimpanzees and Other Great Apes of Africa?
(August 2006) The chimpanzees of Gombe National Park in Kigoma Region, Tanzania, have come under increased pressure from four decades of high human population growth in the region and an associated increase in human activity and disease.
Elderly White Men Afflicted by High Suicide Rates
(2006)In June, the body of Philip Merrill, a Maryland-based publisher and philanthropist who had donated tens of millions of dollars to his favorite causes and served on many high-profile diplomatic and intelligence assignments, was found in the Chesapeake Bay.
Are U.S. Girls Becoming More Violent?
(2006) Adolescent U.S.