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Population and the Environment: Analytical Demography and Applied Population Ethics

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Monday, October 15, 2018
8:30 am - 9:00 am Day 1 Continental Breakfast (outside SFI Noyce Conference Room)
 
9:00 am - 9:20 am Introduction & foundation of population ethics - Paul Hooper 
 
9:20 am - 9:35 am Short-course reflection - Amy P Chen (SFI) 
 
9:35 am - 10:20 am Foundation of population ethics - population axiology & moral theory - Christopher Cowie (Durham Univ.)
 
10:20 am - 10:30 am Day 1 AM Break 1
 
10:30 am - 11:15 am Economic development and demographic choices - Paul Hooper
 
11:15 am - 11:35 am SFI welcome - David Krakauer (SFI)
 
11:35 am - 11:45 am Day 1 AM Break 2
 
11:45 am - 12:30 pm Household decisions and their consequences - fundamentals of the demographic transition - Mary Shenk (Pennsylvania State Univ.) Download Presentation
 
12:30 pm - 1:55 pm Day 1 Lunch (outside SFI Noyce Conference Room)
 
2:00 pm - 2:05 pm Group photo
 
2:05 pm - 2:50 pm Household decisions and their consequences - rural livelihoods, migration & climate - Lori Hunter (UC Boulder) 
 
2:50 pm - 3:00 pm Day 1 PM Break 1
 
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Modeling complex populations - dynamics of age-structured populations - Simon Levin (Princeton) 
 
4:00 pm - 4:10 pm Day 1 PM Break 2
 
4:10 pm - 4:55 pm Modeling complex populations - action of selection on fertility & mortality - Mike Price (SFI)
 
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
8:30 am - 9:00 am Day 2 Continental Breakfast (outside SFI Noyce Conference Room)
 
9:00 am - 9:45 am Co-evolution of population and environment - perceiving climate change and its impacts on reproduction and migration - Caroline Bledsoe (Northwestern Univ.) Download Presentation
 
9:45 am - 9:55 am Day 2 AM Break 1
 
9:55 am - 10:40 am Modeling complex populations - statistical inference from demographic data - Paul Hooper
 
10:40 am - 10:50 am Day 2 AM Break 2
 
10:50 am - 11:35 pm Household decisions and their consequences - fertility & family planning - Aisha Dasgupta (United Nations)
 
11:35 am - 11:45 am Day 2 AM Break 3
 
11:45 am - 12:30 pm Co-evolution of population and environment - ecological & metabolic dynamics - Chris Kempes (SFI)
 
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm Day 2 Lunch (outside SFI Noyce Conference Room)
 
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm Co-evolution of population and environment - environment, food supply & demography - Charlotte Lee (Duke Univ.) Download Presentation
 
2:30 pm - 2:40 pm Day 2 PM Break 1
 
2:40 pm - 3:35 pm Co-evolution of population and environment - anthropogenic change & biodiversity - Andy Rominger (SFI) Download Presentation
 
3:25 pm - 3:35 pm Day 2 PM Break 2
 
3:35 pm - 4:30 pm Closing remarks - Sir Partha Dasgupta (Univ. Cambridge)
 
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Reflection & knowledge sharing - Amy P Chen (SFI)




  • Resources
  • Amplification or suppression: Social networks and the climate change-migration association in rural Mexico
  • Climate shocks and rural-urban migration in Mexico: exploring nonlinearities and thresholds
  • Climate shocks and the timing of migration from Mexico
  • Domestic and International Climate Migration from Rural Mexico
  • Emancipatory catastrophism: What does it mean to climate change and risk society?
  • Evolution and climate variability
  • How the World Survived the Population Bomb: Lessons From 50 Years of Extraordinary Demographic History
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