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09 fevereiro, 2012
Censo 2010: Brasil ainda metropolitano
Pesquisadores do Observatório das Metrópoles analisaram a partir dos dados já divulgados pelo Censo 2010 a distribuição, o incremento e crescimento da população brasileira na última década (2000-10). O trabalho mostra, a partir do recorte espacial das Áreas de Concentração da População (ACPs), que o país manteve sua dinâmica de concentração populacional nas aglomerações metropolitanas, desconstruindo assim a hipótese de que as metrópoles estariam perdendo o ímpeto de crescimento e cedendo espaço para as “cidades médias”.
08 fevereiro, 2012
Visualizando as migrações (na Noruega)
300.000 Norwegians move house every year. If the pattern made by this process could be compressed into one short animation, what would would it look like? What could you learn about your society from such an animation, if anything?
Deluge is a C++ application designed to answer these questions. The underlying data was generated by cross referencing Norwegian tax records from 2006 and 2007 to find changes in postal codes.
Deluge from even westvang on Vimeo.
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Deluge is a C++ application designed to answer these questions. The underlying data was generated by cross referencing Norwegian tax records from 2006 and 2007 to find changes in postal codes.
(Recomendado por Rafael H. M. Pereira, via Urban Demographics)
Deluge from even westvang on Vimeo.
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How to cut carbon emissions: don't be middle-aged
CARBON emissions vary hugely between countries. That is well known, as is the finding that rich people emit more than poor ones. But a newly revised paper* by Emilio Zagheni of the Max Planck Institute in Rostock, Germany also shows how carbon footprints vary by age—and the worrying implications of this.
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Diversity of childbearing behaviour in the context of below-replacement fertility in Brazil
Several Latin American countries have reached below-replacement fertility, if not in terms of
the country average, at least for large socio-economic or regional groups within the country. Brazil,
the largest of these countries, already has below-replacement fertility, as shown by a variety of data
sources. The 2007 National Annual Household Survey (PNAD) gives an estimate of 1.96 children per
woman. The recently released DHS (PNDS 2006) showed fertility at 1.8 children per woman. Hence,
one might easily conclude that Brazil is following the path of Mediterranean countries like Italy,
Spain and Portugal. Indeed, the pace of continuous decline observed suggests that the quantum of
fertility in Brazil will probably reach the lowest-low fertility of those countries in the near future
(Lesthaeghe and Willems, 1999; Kohler, Billari, and Ortega, 2002). However, history does not repeat
itself when comparing Latin American and European countries: one of the biggest differences is the
timing of childbearing.
Suzana Cavenaghi and José Eustáquio Diniz Alves
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The age and sex of migrants 2011
The Wallchart contains five indicators: (a) international migrant stock by age; (b) female migrants as a percentage of the international migrant stock by age; (c) international migrant stock as percentage of the total population by age; (d) the percentage distribution of international migrants by age; (e)median age of international migrants.
Data for countries or areas with fewer than 100,000 inhabitants in 2010 are included in the estimates of migrant stock by age of the major areas and geographical regions but are not shown separately.
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Fellowships for European Doctoral School of Demography
Applications for the 2012-2013 program will be accepted from January 2012 onwards. The application deadline is 15 April 2012.
EDSD is an eleven-month program that is offered every year, with the goal to provide students in the first year of their doctoral studies with an appropriate high-level education in demography. Students will acquire a solid knowledge base on causes and consequences of demographic change, population data, statistical and mathematical demography, as well as modeling, simulation and forecasting. The School’s courses are structured in such a way that the students work on precise formulation of a thesis topic and early steps of their dissertations. The language of the School is English.
EDSD is an eleven-month program that is offered every year, with the goal to provide students in the first year of their doctoral studies with an appropriate high-level education in demography. Students will acquire a solid knowledge base on causes and consequences of demographic change, population data, statistical and mathematical demography, as well as modeling, simulation and forecasting. The School’s courses are structured in such a way that the students work on precise formulation of a thesis topic and early steps of their dissertations. The language of the School is English.
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04 fevereiro, 2012
Climate Change, Migration and Conflict: Addressing Complex Crisis Scenarios in the 21st Century
The costs and consequences of climate change on our world will define the 21st century. Even if nations across our planet were to take immediate steps to rein in carbon emissions—an unlikely prospect—a warmer climate is inevitable. As the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, noted in 2007, human-created “warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level.”
As these ill effects progress they will have serious implications for U.S. national security interests as well as global stability—extending from the sustainability of coastal military installations to the stability of nations that lack the resources, good governance, and resiliency needed to respond to the many adverse consequences of climate change. And as these effects accelerate, the stress will impact human migration and conflict around the world.
by Michael Wertz and Laura Conley, 03/01/2012
As these ill effects progress they will have serious implications for U.S. national security interests as well as global stability—extending from the sustainability of coastal military installations to the stability of nations that lack the resources, good governance, and resiliency needed to respond to the many adverse consequences of climate change. And as these effects accelerate, the stress will impact human migration and conflict around the world.
by Michael Wertz and Laura Conley, 03/01/2012
Regiões da Somália não são mais afetadas pela fome, diz ONU
A colheita excepcional após um bom período de chuvas e a entrega de alimentos por agências de ajuda humanitária acabaram com a fome na Somália, apesar de as condições continuarem frágeis e com risco de piorar, afirmou a Organização Nações Unidas (ONU), nesta sexta-feira.
Fonte: Reuters Brasil, 03/02/2012
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03 fevereiro, 2012
Aumento da população causará falta de comida e combustível, diz ONU
O mundo está ficando sem tempo para garantir que haja alimentos, água e energia para atender a demanda de uma população em rápido crescimento e evitar que 3 bilhões de pessoas sejam levadas à pobreza, advertiu um relatório da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU), na segunda-feira (30/01).
Enquanto a população mundial parece preparada para crescer dos 7 bilhões de hoje para quase 9 bilhões até 2040 e o número de consumidores de classe média aumentar em 3 bilhões nos próximos 20 anos, a demanda por recursos crescerá exponencialmente.
Enquanto a população mundial parece preparada para crescer dos 7 bilhões de hoje para quase 9 bilhões até 2040 e o número de consumidores de classe média aumentar em 3 bilhões nos próximos 20 anos, a demanda por recursos crescerá exponencialmente.
Fonte: Reuters, 30/02/2012
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01 fevereiro, 2012
Summer Residential Scholarship Institute at Brown University
Applications invited for New Summer Residential Scholarship Institute at Brown University, 9-23 June 2012
THEME: Population and Development: New Approaches to Enduring Global Problems
The application deadline is coming up soon: 18 February 2012.
From June 9-23, 2012, Brown University (in Providence, RI, USA) will host an international residential institute designed to enhance the scholarship, research, methodological skills, training, and networks of early-career social scientists from less developed countries. Participants will receive tailored feedback on their research ideas and will meet and interact with more than 20 of the world's leaders in population and development studies over the course of the 2-week institute. In addition to providing cutting-edge and personalized training, this institute aims to help foster collaborations between the Global North and Global South, as well as among scholars from different developing regions across the world.
This Institute is part of Brown University’s International Advanced Research Institutes initiative (BIARI), which brings together young faculty and professionals from around the world to address pressing global issues through innovative research and pedagogy.Thanks to generous support from Santander Universities, all the costs of tuition, food and accommodation (in university housing) during BIARI, and also the costs of international air travel and U.S. airport transfers to Providence, will be paid by the institute.
Please forward this announcement to your collaborators, colleagues, advanced PhD students, and other appropriate networks of scholars from the Global South who work in the area of Population and Development, to encourage them to apply.
Further details are available at http://www.brown.edu/biari.
To apply for BIARI 2012, please visit:
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