This PowerPoint slideshow is recommended in the course syllabus for the Population Geography classes at the University of California at Santa Barbara. The slideshow is based from the written book by John R. Weeks, Population An Introduction to Concepts and Issues. Covered in the slideshow is an introduction to demography, global population trends, demographic perspectives, and demographic data. The overarching goal is to define what demography is, identify why it is important and how it is applied.

This newsletter is put out by the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) for Alumni of the University of California at Berkeley. This issue discusses strategies for managing and mitigating climate change affects. Attention is focused mainly on parts of Asia, including Mongolia, Philippines, Laos, Vietnam, and in Africa, including Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa. The interactive newsletter has links to full articles.

The Population-Environment Research Network (PERN) seeks to advance academic research on population and the environment by promoting online scientific exchange among researchers from social and natural science disciplines worldwide. PERN is a project of The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) on Global Environmental Change. This website provides access to PERN’s eLibrary, Conference Calendar, CyberSeminars, Job/Funding Lists, and the periodic PERN newsletter.

The Thematic Guides on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, provided by CIESIN offers an overview of some of the key topics and issues that pertain to human interactions in the environment and global change. The primary objective of the Thematic Guides is to provide a tool that allows researchers, policy makers, educators and the public to quickly access background materials on key global change issues, and to locate key data sets and information resources.

Submitted by the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program is a newsletter for the Alumni of the University of California, Berkeley. The focus of this newsletter is protected areas that are dedicated to the maintenance of biological diversity and of natural and associated cultural resources. This issue is a collaborative effort featuring articles from Kenya, Madagascar, Guatemala, Indonesia, India, Canada and Nicaragua, where projects have tried "to find a balance that meets human needs and maintains biodiversity".

This seminar, conducted in 2008 at the University of California at Santa Barbara, explores the geographic traditions and new frontiers in research on the challenges of reconciling food production, food security and global economic and environmental change. Food production and food systems epitomize the often precarious nature of human-environment interactions.

This newsletter is put out by the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program(ELP) for Alumni of the University of California at Berkeley. This issue focuses on the topic of “scaling-up” environmental projects to have greater impact, including projects linking HIV/AIDS and environment. ELP Alumni share successes and challenges associated with “scaling-up” efforts across the globe. Scaling-up is one of the most critical issues for environmental and sustainable development leaders, form the grassroots to the highest levels of government.

This course, held in 2007 at the University of California at Santa Barbara, focuses on the social science perspectives on global environmental change (GEC). It explores various issues through perspectives from geography, political ecology, ecology, institutional economics, and political science. An understanding of the core concepts of land cover change, human impacts on environmental sustainability, and the human ecological footprint will be fostered. It is also an introduction to emerging questions concerning scale, uncertainty, equity and environmental governance.

Enclosed is the syllabus for the 2007 Population Geography course at University of California at Santa Barbara. The syllabus coverts the major concepts and basic tools of demography; key geographical and historical processes of population change such as fertility, mortality and migration; and the socio-economic, political, and environmental causes and consequences of population dynamics in different world regions and over time. The population dynamics are discussed in a way that incorporates economic, political, cultural and environmental issues.

This seminar, held in 2005 at the University of California at Santa Barbara, examines interrelations among and between population, development, and the environment in developing countries with a particular emphasis on Latin America. The course retains a geographical focus, but will explore a broad range of themes including poverty, population-environment patterns, cultural and political ecology, deforestation, agriculture, and many other aspects of development.

This course examines global environmental issues from sociological perspectives. It critically considers issues such as overpopulation, world hunger and poverty, resource management and shortages, environmental impact of population dynamics, and strategies for change. The syllabus outlines the specific aims of the course, determined readings, weekly assignments, and a class schedule.

The course provides an overview of social science theory and research relating human population to environmental context. Population processes influence the demands placed upon land, air and water environments- as the environment provides resources necessary for human survival. Population processes also relate to environmental pollutants- air, water, and land all act as sinks, or repositories, for the pollution generated by contemporary production and consumption processes.