Doctoral School in Geography organizes International Seminar on "Population - Environment: theory, findings, and problems of linking people to pixel' - June 2 and 3, 2009

International seminar cycle – Doctoral School in Geography

Population – Environment: theory, findings, and problems of linking people to pixel

2 – 3 June 2009

Keynote speaker:

Professor Richard E. Bilsborrow

Carolina Population Center

2 June 2009

3 June 2009

Population and the Environment in Tropical Forest Regions: Findings from 20 Years of Research in the Ecuadorian Amazon
The interaction between population and their environment will be discussed based on a case study from the Ecuadorian Amazon. In this research project, several spatial socio-economical and biophysical datasets were combined. The design and implementation of the two surveys of migrant colonist, a community survey, and complementary geophysical data collection will be detailed. The statistical methods that were used to integrate household and community survey data with spatial data will be detailed. The use of these integrated datasets for demographic analyses, analyses of land use changes and their determinants, environmental changes and attitudes, and linkages of changes with markets and urbanization will be discussed.

Migration, Environment and Development: Data Collection and Analysis Issues
A typology of internal and international migrations will be proposed. The need to collect detailed data on recent migrants to properly investigate the determinants or consequences of migration will be discussed. Existing experiences and their limitations will be presented along with several standards of specialized survey design and sampling approaches. Finally, some recent studies on the linkages between migration and the natural environment will be presented.

Richard Bilsborrow is Professor of Biostatistics. As an economist-demographer, he has extensive experience developing, implementing and analyzing household and community surveys which have contributed to many studies investigating issues such as environmental change and migrations. He authored two major books on survey and sample design for migration surveys and has been involved directly or via his students in virtually all studies of the project to date that have used the Ecuador Amazon survey data, on land use, income, community effects, migration. He has published 30 books and monographs and over 140 articles and book chapters.

POSTER - FLYER

Venue :

Université catholique de Louvain
Département de Géographie
Mercator building
Room MERC14
Place Pasteur 3,
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve

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Obligatory for doctoral students. Registration ends 15th of May 2009.