Pebley A R
RAND Population Research Center, Santa Monica, CA 90407, USA.
Demography. 1998 Nov;35(4):377-89.
Demographers' interest in the environment has generally been enmeshed in broader issues of population growth and economic development. Empirical research by demographers on environmental issues other than natural-resource constraints is limited. In this paper, I briefly review past demographic thinking about population and the environment and suggest reasons for the limited scope of demographic research in this area. Next, I describe more recent demographic research on the environment and suggest several newer areas for demographic research. Finally, I consider the future of research on the environment in the field of demography.
人口统计学家对环境的兴趣通常与人口增长和经济发展等更广泛的问题交织在一起。人口统计学家对除自然资源限制以外的环境问题进行的实证研究有限。在本文中，我简要回顾了过去人口统计学关于人口与环境的思考，并指出了该领域人口统计研究范围有限的原因。接下来，我描述了最近关于环境的人口统计研究，并提出了几个新的人口统计研究领域。最后，我思考了人口统计学领域环境研究的未来。
