Population Dynamics

As the world population doubled from 3 to 6 billion, the Center has been at the forefront of studying concurrent shifts in population dynamics. An important part of this work focuses on the interaction of population trends with the environment, with such studies ranging from Nepal to China to the Great Plains of the United States. The Center also has a distinguished tradition in studies of U.S. census trends in migration, immigration, and population shifts as they affect demographic change and racial segregation patterns. PSC researchers have played a central role in monitoring national social demographic change in authoritative census monograph studies.

Funded Research and Affiliated Programs

Alcoa Foundations Conservation and Sustainability Fellowship Program: Enabling Technology for a Sustainable Energy Future Through Interdisciplinary Research and Training

Climate Variability and Influenza: New Approaches to Developing Public Health Early Warning

Collaborative Research HSD DHB: Program for Research on Human and Environmental Interactions

Demography and Environment in Grassland Settlement (Sylvester)

Developing Geographic Information System (GIS) Simulation for Integrating Landscape Ecological Knowledge into Landscape Designs (Brown)

Exploring Relationships Between Adult Physical Activity and Perceived and Objective Measures of Community Environmental Characteristics

IGERT Structure, Adaptation, and Performance in Economic and Political Institutions

Mexico: Maquila, Environmental Vulnerability, and Health (Harlow)

Michigan Historical Demography Workshop (Alter)

Minority Suburban Migration (Frey)

New York Social Environment Study (Galea)

PIRE (Partnerships for International Research and Education) Collaborative Research and Training in Social Context, Population Processes, and Environmental Change (Axinn)

Population and Ecology Research Laboratory (PERL) (Axinn)

Population Studies Center Infrastructure Grant (Thornton)

Reciprocal Relations Between Population and Environment (Axinn)

Social and Physical Environments and Health Disparities

Social Consequences of Racial Residential Integration (Morenoff)

Spatial and Temporal Interrelationships between Human Population and the Environment (Liu)

The Effects of Adaptation on the Health of Immigrants (Schoeni)

The Urban Environment and HIV Risk Behavior (Galea)

Transformations of Agrarian Landscapes and Life Ways (Gutmann)

US Minority Migration and Metropolitan Change (Frey)


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Recent resources, events, news

New Publications

Bingenheimer & Geronimus, "Behavior & HIV"

Wildeman, "Imprisonment & Infant Mortality," PSC Research Report

Next Brown Bag

Tues, Dec 1
Arland Thornton & Barb Koremenos
Mobilizing for Human Rights
For live stream
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