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From: RSS Social Statistics Section [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Ross Young
Sent: 19 April 2007 10:41
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Subject: Invitation to join RSS Official Statistics Section mailing list
Dear all,
The Official Statistics Section of the Royal Statistical Society now has a
JISCmail list which will be used primarily to advertise meetings of the
Section but also to post other items of interest relating to official
statistics. I am writing to invite you, as a member of the Social
Statistics Section list, to join our new mailing list. You can join the
mailing list by clicking on the following link or pasting the URL into your
internet browser:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=official-statistics&
A=1
More information on the work of the Official Statistics Section is
available on the RSS website at http://www.rss.org.uk/main.asp?page=2799
The next meeting of the Official Statistics Section is today at 5pm:
Environmentally sustainable population - why the statistics matter
19 April 2007 17:00 Registration and tea from 4.30pm
The Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX
Rosamund McDougall and Martin Desvaux (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.
Kind regards
Ross Young
Official Statistics Section secretary
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