Contents -- 1. Integrating the Environment into Population Research -- Part I Theoretical Perspectives -- 2. Population and Environment Interactions: Marco Perspectives -- 3. A Micro Perspective: Elaborating Demographic Contributions to the Livelihoods Framework -- 4. Vulnerability to Climate Change and Adaptive Capacity from a Demographic Perspective -- Part II Data & Methods -- 5. Household-Scale Data and Analytical Approaches -- 6. Spatial Data and Analytical Approaches -- 7. Qualitative Data and Approaches to Population-Environment Inquiry -- Part III Migration & Environment -- 8. Building a Policy-Relevant Research Agenda on Environmental Migration in Africa -- 9. Water Stress and Migration in Asia -- 10. Environmentally Informed Migration in North America -- 11. Environmental Migration in Latin America -- Part IV Health and Mortality -- 12. Air Polllution, Health, and Mortality -- 13. Population and Water Issues: Going Beyond Scarcity -- 14. Heat, Mortality, and Health -- 15. Land Use Change and Health -- 16. Health and Mortality Consequences of Natural Disasters -- Part V. The Influence of Demographic Dynamics on the Environment -- 17. Cities and Their Environments -- 18. Population and Agricultural Change -- 19. Population and Energy Consumption/Carbon Emissions: What We Know, What We Should Focus on Next -- Part VI Other Arenas -- 20. Environment and Fertility -- 21. Gender, Population and the Environment -- 22. Socio-demographic Inequalities in Environmental Exposures -- Part VII Conclusion & Reflections -- 23. Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of Population-Environment Research -- 24. Environmental Migration Scholarship and Policy: Recent progress, Future Challenges.

This handbook presents a timely and comprehensive overview of theory, data, methods and research findings that connect human population dynamics and environmental context. It presents regional summaries of empirical findings on migration and environmental connections and summarizes environmental impacts of migration – such as urbanization and deforestation. It also offers background on the health implications of environmental conditions such as climate change, natural disasters, scarcity of natural resources, as well as on resource scarcity and fertility, gender considerations in population and environment, and the connections between population size, growth, composition and carbon emissions. This handbook helps readers to better understand the complexities within population-environment connections, in addition to some of the opportunities and challenges within environmental demography. As such this collection is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and policy analysts inthe areas of demography, migration, fertility, health and mortality, as well as environmental, global and development studies.