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Abstract

Population growth and the environment There are few topics which have generated as many entries in the population/environment bibliography as the impact of population growth on the physical environment. However, the population/resources or population/environment relation is reduced to a unidimensional relation, that has too often stopped at considerations of the volume and rate of growth. It is my thesis that demography has not much to show for two enturies of work. There is considerable room for a specifically demographic contribution. What is needed is an analysis of the relationships of demographic dynamics, in all its complexity, with environmental change. This paper suggests that a prime candidate for the attention of population specialists is migration and settlement patterns and their relationships to the physical environment.