Environmentally sustainable population - Why the statistics matter.
Thursday 19 April, 5 pm (registration and tea from 4.30pm).
Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX
Speakers: Rosamund McDougall and Martin Desvaux PhD CPhys MInstP
of the Optimum Population Trust
Rosamund McDougall will cover the ways in which population statistics are
gathered globally and in the UK and how they are interpreted, used, and
abused in policy formulation. She will explore the reasons for persistent UK
government failure to consider population policy as part of environmental
strategy and suggest how this might change in the future.
Martin Desvaux will describe population development since 10,000 BCE and
factors which controlled them. He will discuss how ecological footprint
statistics can be used to assess sustainable population sizes. Possible
scenarios will be examined to underline the challenges facing the
development of sustainable populations.
Discussant: David Coleman, Professor of Demography, Oxford University.
Meeting organized by the Official Statistics Committee of the RSS
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PS (by Ray Thomas) BCE in Martin Desvaux's messages stands for Before the
Common Era - a politically correct way of avoiding the Before Christ
notation.
To register for the meeting you should email to [log in to unmask] or
telephone the RSS on 0207 638 8998.
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