Fertility decline and below-replacement birth rates
What sub-replacement fertility across most of the world implies for the working-age share over two generations.
Research Briefs & Proceedings
Population, migration and environment, read through the evidence.
An independent academic resource convening peer-informed briefs on how demographic change and the environment shape one another.
Silo 01
Population & Demography
Population ageing and long-run care demand
Projecting old-age support ratios and the distribution of care needs as smaller cohorts move through the population.
Silo 02
Migration
Internal migration as climate adaptation
Evidence on rural-to-urban movement following recurrent drought, and the limits of mobility as an adaptive strategy.
From temporary displacement to permanent urban settlement
Why movement recorded as temporary often becomes permanent, and what that means for receiving cities.
Silo 03
Climate & Population
From temporary displacement to permanent urban settlement
How repeated climate shocks turn movement recorded as temporary into permanent urban settlement.
Household consumption and Earth-system pressure
How demographic composition and per-capita consumption mediate the relationship between population and the environment.
Silo 04
Environmental Policy
Seven of nine planetary boundaries crossed
What the latest assessment of Earth-system limits means for population and consumption pressure.
Land-use policy under competing population and conservation goals
Trade-offs between settlement, agriculture and protected-area expansion in high-growth regions.
About the symposium
A standing forum for population–environment research
The symposium convenes researchers, practitioners and graduate students to circulate concise, evidence-led briefs at the intersection of demography and the environment.
Each brief distils a body of published research into a short, citable summary with figures and sources. Material is open-access and intended for teaching, policy reference and further reading. The resource is independent and is not affiliated with the University of Oxford; the name reflects the academic tradition the work draws on.
25
Research briefs published
4
Thematic silos
2014
Year convened
Briefs are reviewed by the editorial team and prepared with AI assistance under human oversight, with the method disclosed on each page.