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NZ First’s Kiwi Kids Grant is tied up with the party’s broader immigration policies. But a ‘baby bonus’ for citizens won’t necessarily achieve the intended outcome.
Demographer Stuart Gietel-Basten tells The Conversation Weekly podcast why South Korea’s birth rate is climbing, and what that means for the future.
The Asian giant is grappling with a dramatic population decline, with a fertility rate of 1.0, well below the 2.1 replacement rate.
The new US national security strategy says Europe faces ‘civilizational erasure’ due to high levels of immigration.
Even though there are 8 billion people on Earth today, a catastrophe could send that number much lower within a few decades.
Population explosions and declines are related to the state of the economy and the environment.
My research on Japan’s historically significant Gotō Islands – some of which include UNESCO Heritage-listed sites – provides a rare look at the consequences of the ongoing population crisis.
Forcing the younger generation to work harder to support a growing elderly population is neither efficient nor sustainable. Canada shouldn’t seek to follow in Greece’s footsteps.
South Africa’s white shark population is not in decline but migrating to survive.
The key to protecting wolverines around the world is to reduce trapping, minimize predator control pressures, and to protect and connect large blocks of intact habitat they need to survive.
Melbourne is Australia’s most rapidly growing city, a title it wrested from Perth around 2013-14. Several of Australia’s big cities are growing well above the national average population growth rate.
Worries about overpopulation aren’t being felt everywhere.
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Professor of Social Science and Public Policy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Professor of Economics, MacEwan University
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Assistant Professor in Modern European History, Dublin City University
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Marine Biologist, South African National Parks (SANParks); Honorary Research Associate, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB), South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
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Adjunct Professor; Head, Applied Conservation Macro Ecology Lab, University of Victoria
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Adjunct professor, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, University of Northern British Columbia
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PhD Candidate, University of Cape Town
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Adjunct Professor of Marine Biology, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
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Research Lead, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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Marine biologist, Rhodes University
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Senior Lecturer, Japanese Studies, University of New England
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Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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Professor of Chemistry, Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Windsor
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Professor, Economics, University of Windsor