Environmental and Resource Economics

Author: Sarah Harper DOI 10.1007/s10640-013-9677-4 Environmental and Resource Economics The Official Journal of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists ISSN 0924-6460 Environ Resource Econ

The paper addresses the collision of two twenty-first Century transitions - the unprecedented change in the size, composition, density and distribution of the human population, and rapid change in the earth’s natural environment, in part a response to the above. It argues that it is important to consider these aspects of population change and environment together in order to understand the reality of any mitigation that may be made.