Reports

Elizabeth Leahy Madsen, Jennifer Bergeson-Lockwood and Jessica Bernstein In Uganda, maternal mortality appears to have declined over the past decade, measured at 505 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2000/01 and 435 deaths in 2006, a ratio that is among … Continue reading »

The Programme of Action adopted at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994 establishes the right of men and women to be informed about their reproductive choices and health, and to have access to the information and … Continue reading »

Richard P. Cincotta and Robert Engelman Nature’s Place discusses how humans can preserve Earth and all its living species through the implementation on conservation programs. Questions raised in the report include, Does human population growth really matter to species loss? And … Continue reading »

By Shanti R.Conly and Shyami de Silva In 1994, at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo, Egypt, the international community recognized the enormous unmet reproductive health needs in the developing world and the importance of … Continue reading »

Robert Engelman, with Richard P. Cincotta, Bonnie Dye, Tom Gardner-Outlaw and Jennifer Wisnewski The interactive maps and data tables presented on these web pages provide an updated index of population and natural resource data for 179 countries and chronicle this … Continue reading »

Robert Engelman Debates on population and environmental dynamics go back to the 18th century and show no signs of ending. Aspects of the linkage are clear enough, however, to raise the question: How can the connections between population and the … Continue reading »

By Sarah Haddock HIV prevention has long been approached at the level of individual behaviors, operating to some extent under the assumption that behavior is determined by a person’s conscious decisions. However, a paradigm shift toward considering the physical and … Continue reading »