Population Growth Discussion: Oct. 22, 2008

Please join the Environmental Change and Security Program for a discussion of Fertile Fringes: Population Growth at Protected-Area Edges

featuring

Justin Brashares, Assistant Professor, College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley

Jason Bremner, Director, Population-Health-Environment Programs, Population Reference Bureau

George Wittemyer, Assistant Professor, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.
5th Floor Conference Room
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Webcast live at www.wilsoncenter.org

Please RSVP to ecsp@wilsoncenter.org with your name and affiliation.

Justin Brashares and George Wittemyer’s recent article in Science presents data showing marked population increases at the edges of protected areas. They argue that this increase is due to immigration, as people from surrounding areas are drawn to the health-care and livelihoods programs made available to people expelled from the parks. Brashares, an assistant professor at the College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley, and Wittemyer, an assistant professor at the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University, will present the findings of their research, which covers more than 300 protected areas in 45 countries in Africa and Latin America. Jason Bremner, director of the Population Reference Bureau's population-health-environment programs, will discuss broader demographic variables that may be at work in the data collected by the study.

This is the fifth event in ECSP’s “New Horizons at the Nexus of Conflict, Natural Resources, and Health” series, which examines new thinking and research at the intersection of these areas. This series is funded jointly by USAID’s Office of Natural Resources Management, its Office of Population and Reproductive Health, and its Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation, with technical support from USAID’s Asia, Middle East, and Africa bureaus. For more information on this series, please visit www.wilsoncenter.org/newhorizons.

If you are interested, but unable to attend the event, please tune into the live or archived webcast at www.wilsoncenter.org. The webcast will begin approximately 10 minutes after the posted meeting time. You will need Windows Media Player to watch the webcast. To download the free player, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download.

Location: Woodrow Wilson Center at the Ronald Reagan Building: 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW ("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line), 5th Floor Conference Room. A map to the Center is available at www.wilsoncenter.org/directions. Note: Due to heightened security, entrance to the building will be restricted and photo identification is required. Please allow additional time to pass through security.