Population dynamics and environmental change seminar series

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Friday, 31 May 2019 - 2:00pm

The Seminar is part of the “Population Dynamics and Environmental Change Seminar Series”, co-hosted by the UN Population Division and convened in partnership with the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR), the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University, and the Population Council.

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Venue
One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, Floor 3, New York, NY 10017

Presenter

Population on the Global Commons: New Perspectives
Sir Partha Dasgupta FBA FRS (Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge)

Abstract: The "tragedy of the commons," which is an expression of the externalities associated with a failure of societies to price a scarce good, has served as an illuminating metaphor for our excessive use of the biosphere. However, social scientists have not translated the excessive use of the commons into the analysis of our reproductive behaviour. In his lecture, the presenter shall first develop an account of the feedback and then point to a class of externalities that arise from the social-embeddedness of our preferences for both consumption and reproduction. The latter externalities have a different character to the ones experienced in the commons and can be weakened by civic engagement, they do not require centralized tools such as taxes and subsidies.

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Commission on Population and Development, thirty-sixth session (2003)

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Monday, 31 March 2003 - 10:00am to Friday, 04 April 2003 - 6:00pm

Population, education and development

Bureau members

Mr. Gediminas Šerkšnys (Lithuania) - Eastern-European Group (Chair)
Mr. Iftekhar Chowdhury (Bangladesh) - Asia-Pacific Group (Vice-Chair)
Mr. Crispin Grey-Johnson (Gambia) - African Group Vice-Chair)
Mr. Marc Bichler (Luxembourg) - Western European and Others Group (WEOG) Vice-Chair)
Mr. Alfredo Chuquihuara (Peru) - Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) Vice-Chair)

Report of the Commission on its thirty-sixth session

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Commission on Population and Development

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Population dynamics and environmental change seminar series

Commission on Population and Development, thirty-sixth session (2003)

Population, education and development

Bureau members

Report of the Commission on its thirty-sixth session