THE STATE OF WORLD POPULATION 2001

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: Overview . 1

Introduction 1

The Connections 2

Demographic Challenges and Opportunities . 2

Milestones . 3

Major Themes of the Report . 4

Environmental Trends (Chapter 2) 4

Development, Poverty, and

Environmental Impact (Chapter 3) 6

Women and the Environment (Chapter 4) . 7

Health and the Environment (Chapter 5) . 7

Action for Sustainable and

Equitable Development (Chapter 6) 8

Cultural Change, Population and Environment . 9

CHAPTER 2: Environmental Trends . 11

Water and Population 11

Water Availability . 12

Water Quality 13

New Challenges . 13

Feeding a Future World . 14

Problems of Food-Deficit Countries 15

The Value of Genetic Diversity . 17

The Meat Consumption Revolution . 17

Moving Towards Food Security 17

Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change 19

Population and Climate Policy . 20

Forests, Habitat and Biodiversity 22

Regional Environmental Trends 23

Asia and the Pacific 23

Africa 24

Latin America and the Caribbean . 25

Western Asia . 25

CHAPTER 3: Developmental Levels and

Environmental Impact . 27

Determining the Impact of Human Activity . 27

Poverty and the Environment 28

A Complex Interaction . 28

Globalization and Poverty . 29

Measuring Poverty’s Dimensions . 30

Win-win Solutions for Poverty

and the Environment . 30

Energy and Poverty 31

Rural Development and Population . 31

Urbanization . 32

Pollution 33

Loss of Farmland 33

Problems of Growth . 34

Wasteful Consumption Patterns . 34

Humanity’s ‘Ecological Footprint’ . 35

Environmental Refugees 36

CHAPTER 4: Women and the Environment 37

How Environmental Degradation Affects Women . 38

Powerlessness and Its Impact 39

Involving Women in Environmental

and Health Decisions . 40

Forging New Relationships 41

CHAPTER 5: Health and the Environment 42

Demographic Change and Health . 43

Pollution and Health Threats 43

Heavy Metals . 44

Nuclear Contamination . 44

Reproductive Health and the Environment 45

Reproductive Health Service Challenges 45

Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants 45

HIV/AIDS and the Environment 46

Biodiversity Loss and Health . 47

Effects of Climate Change . 48

CHAPTER 6: Action for Sustainable and

Equitable Development . 49

A New Consensus . 49

Multilateral Environmental Agreements 49

Initiatives Linking Population

and the Environment . 50

Africa 50

Asia 51

Latin America 51

North America 51

Needed Resources and Technical Assistance 52

Assessing the Costs of Inaction . 52

Environmental Paybacks from

Population-related Investments . 53

Environmental ‘Externalities’ to Child-bearing . 53

Alternative Scenarios 54

Changes in Age Structure . 54

Recommendations for Action 55

APPENDIX: Global Agreements on Human Rights, Environment and Development, Reproductive

Health and Gender Equality . 59

Human Rights Treaties 59

UN Conference on Environment and Development 59

International Conference on Population and Development 60

Fourth World Conference on Women 61

World Summit on Social Development . 61

The Millennium Declaration . 61

NOTES 62