Publisher : Journal of Sustainable Development
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Publication year : 2015
Thematic : Monitoring
Language : English
Note
Demography holds a key to sustainable development. It studies size, composition and distribution of human population looking into causes and consequences of their changes (McFalls, 2007). Since these occurrences are deeply linked with other issues, e.g. economy, sociological perspective, culture, history, environment, and natural resources; population analysis is inevitably essential for any public administration. Developers of any state certainly demand well-conducted population projections for efficient development planning, even though human population dynamic is to some extent hard to be noticed by publics (Cohen, 2005). Human population can be projected in various scales, e.g. global scale, state scale, and local scales. There have been numerous global-level population projections; the official one is The United Nations Population Divisions' World Population Prospects, with numerous scenarios ranging from high to low. Making use of the prospects, Cohen (1995) synthesized how much capacity the earth could carry human population in broad criteria-energy consumption, food demand, natural resource supply, economic welfare, environmental quality, etc. Besides, The United Nations gives population projection by age group and sex of all countries. Nonetheless, local-scale projections are mostly available at statistics offices of each country.
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Keywords : Biocoenosis
Encoded by : Pauline Carmel Joy Eje
