Population and Land Use in Developing Countries: Report of a Workshop (1993)
Chapter: Appendix A: Workshop Agenda
Appendix
Workshop Agenda
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Thursday, December 5 |
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9:00–9:15 a.m. |
Welcome and rationale |
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Carole L. Jolly, Committee on Population Barbara Boyle Torrey, Committee on Population and Population Reference Bureau |
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9:15–10:15 |
Historical Overview of Land Use Change |
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M. Gordon Wolman, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University |
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10:15–11:15 |
Measurement of Land Use Change |
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Isaak S. Zonneveld, International Institute of Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences, The Netherlands |
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11:15–11:45 |
Break |
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11:45–12:45 p.m. |
Current Approaches to the Study of Population Change and Land Use: Correlations and the Research Efforts of Other Organizations |
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Billie L. Turner II, George Perkins Marsh Institute, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University |
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12:45–1:45 |
Lunch |
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1:45–2:45 |
Population Growth and Technological Change in Agriculture |
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Hans Binswanger, Agriculture Operations, Latin America and the Caribbean, The World Bank |
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2:45–3:45 |
Using Cross-National Data to Understand Population, |
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Land Use, and the Environment Richard E. Bilsborrow, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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3:45–4:15 |
Break |
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4:15–5:15 |
Discussant |
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Steward T.A. Pickett, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, The New York Botanical Garden |
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Friday, December 6 |
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Case Studies |
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8:30–10:00 a.m. |
Africa |
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Uma Lele, Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida |
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Nigeria |
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Michael Mortimore, University of Cambridge |
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10:00–10:30 |
Break |
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10:30–12:45 p.m. |
India—Analytical Strategies for Studying Population Change and Land Use |
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Robert E. Evenson, Department of Economics, Yale University |
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Mauritius |
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Wolfgang Lutz, Population Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria |
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Thailand |
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Theodore Panayotou, Harvard Institute for International Development and Department of Economics, Harvard University (Advisor to the Natural Resources and Environment Division of the Thailand Development Research Institute) |
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12:45–1:45 |
Lunch |
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1:45–2:30 |
Honduras |
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Billie R. DeWalt, Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky* |
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2:30–3:30 |
Population Growth, Environmental Change, and Institutional Innovation |
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Vernon W. Ruttan, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota |
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3:30–4:00 |
Break |
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4:00–5:00 |
Wrap-up and discussion |
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Samuel H. Preston, Committee on Population and Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania |
