The interactions between human population dynamics and the environment have often been viewed mechanistically. This review elucidates the complexities and contextual specificities of population-environment relationships in a number of domains. It explores the ways in which demographers and other social scientists have sought to understand the relationships among a full range of population dynamics (e.g., population size, growth, density, age and sex composition, migration, urbanization, vital rates) and environmental changes. The chapter briefly reviews a number of the theories for understanding population and the environment and then proceeds to provide a state-of-the-art review of studies that have examined population dynamics and their relationship to five environmental issue areas. The review concludes by relating population-environment research to emerging work on human-environment systems.

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人口与环境


人们常常从机械角度来看待人口动态与环境之间的相互作用。这篇综述阐明了许多领域中人口-环境关系的复杂性和背景特殊性。它探讨了人口统计学家和其他社会科学家寻求了解各种人口动态（例如人口规模、增长、密度、年龄和性别构成、移民、城市化、人口动态率）和环境变化之间关系的方法。本章简要回顾了一些理解人口和环境的理论，然后对研究人口动态及其与五个环境问题领域的关系的研究进行了最新的回顾。审查最后将人口-环境研究与人类-环境系统的新兴工作联系起来。