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ARE 298

POPULATION, POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT

Interdisciplinary Graduate Seminar

MEETING TIME: Wednesday 2:00-4:00 pm 201 Giannini Hall

1. Short paper due Wednesday Nov. 27.

2. Take home final given out last day of class and due a week later.

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SAVE DEC. 2ND EVENING: there will be a dinner and an evening of presentations.
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CONTRIBUTING FACULTY

PACKARD PAPER ON POPULATION ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH

Please send any inputs to Tania at barham@are.berkeley.edu
- Names of University Departments or Centers working on Population and Environment Linkages e.g. Geography, Economics, Public Health, Demography, Environmental Science and Regional Planning
- Key academic literature on the topic from the last decade (books and journal articles)
- Your opinions on future research needs in the Population and Environment Field

LECTURE TOPICS

MONTH	DAY	TOPIC
AUG	28	The Population Development Debate (Ron Lee)
SEPT	4	Fertility, Development, and the Politics of Population (Martha Campbell)
SEPT	11	Population Dynamics and the Demographic Transition (Ron Lee)
SEPT	18	Population, Food Production and Hunger (Pedro Sanchez)
SEPT	25	Population's Impact on the Environment: A Factor Amenable to Change (Malcolm Potts and Julia Walsh)
OCT	2	Population, Technology and the Environment: Poor vs. Affluent Countries (David Zilberman)
OCT	9	Guest Lecturer (Tamara Fox, Population Division, Hewlet Foundation) / Discussion of student's research ideas for paper
OCT	16	Models of Population Dynamics and the Earth's "Carrying Capacity": Renewable and Non-renewable Natural Resources (David Zilberman and Andy Gutierrez)
OCT	23	Risk Management (David Zilberman)
OCT	30	Environmental and Health Impacts of Development (Kirk Smith)
NOV	6	Environmental Impacts of Neglect and Institutions that Mitigate Resource Degradation Outcomes (Alain De Janvry)
NOV	13	Poverty - Environment/Resource Degradation Linkages (Alain De Janvry)
NOV	20	Key Issues in Assessing the Impact of Population Growth of Poverty and the Environment (Ron Lee)
NOV	27	Student Presentations
DEC	4	Review/Presentation of Population-Environment Review Paper
DEC	2	EVENING -- DINNER AND PRESENTATIONS