Population, Land Use and the Environment |
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| Air date: | Wednesday, May 19, 2004, 3:00:00 PM |
| Category: | Wednesday Afternoon Lectures |
| Description: | As vividly portrayed in a recent National Research Council
report: Humans have dramatically altered the Earth’s surface. These changes in land cover are so large and rapid that they constitute an abrupt shift in the human-environment condition Indeed, they approach in magnitude the land-cover transformations that have occurred at transitions from glacial to interglacial climate. Agricultural transformation is the change that has most modified the Earth’s surface. Human population dynamics is one of the many causes. The debate about the consequences of population growth for land use goes back hundreds of years to the time of Malthus, and continues today, although in a more nuanced way.
For more information, visit Barbara Entwisle NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series |
| Author: | Barbara Entwisle, Ph.D., University of North Carolina |
| Runtime: | 55 minutes |
| Rights: | This is a work of the United States Government. No copyright exists on this material. It may be disseminated freely. |
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| CIT File ID: | 12041 |
| CIT Live ID: | 2627 |
| Permanent link: | http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?12041 |