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Notes by user Charlotte Lee (Duke Univ.) for Population and the Environment: Analytical Demography and Applied Population Ethics

Post-meeting Reflection

1+ paragraphs on any combination of the following:

Presentation highlights

Open questions that came up

How your perspective changed

Impact on your own work

e.g. the discussion on [A] that we are having reminds me of [B] conference/[C] initiative/[D] funding call-for-proposal/[E] research group

Highlights: Very many of the issues with which I've wrestled in my own thinking--from big-picture and philosophical questions to methodological ones at various levels of detail--are being studied and advanced by others at this meeting. There have been a few ways of measuring things, or of thinking about them at all, which were completely new and cool to me. And of course several questions and topics about which I personally haven't thought much, but are clearly important to population and environment

Impact on my own research: I've come to a renewed awareness of the value and difficulty of interdisciplinary integration. For example, there are many places in my research where social organization plays some role in the dynamics of food supply and population change, and sharing this here has reminded me of how much can be important and how much there is to find out.

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Reference material notes

Some examples:

Here is [A] database on [B] that I pull data from to do [C] analysis that might be of interest to this group (insert link).

Here is a free tool for calculating [ABC] (insert link)

This painting/sculpture/forms of artwork is emblematic to our discussion on [X]!

Schwartz et al. 2017 offers a review on [ABC] migration as relate to climatic factors (add the reference as well).

- Recommended for this course (1 & 2):

1) Lee, CT, and S Tuljapurkar. 2011. Quantitative, dynamic models to integrate environment, population, and society. Pages 111-133 in Kirch, PV, ed. Roots of Conflict: Soils, Agriculture, and Sociopolitical Complexity in Ancient Hawai'i. School of Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

This book chapter summarizes the effort to integrate models for the environment and environment-dependent demography that is the focus of my lecture during the course. It's intended as an introduction to and overview of the dynamic modeling approach--details are there for folks who are interested, but not necessary.

2) Lee, CT, S Tuljapurkar, and P Vitousek. 2006. Risky business: spatial and temporal variation in preindustrial dryland agriculture. Human Ecology 34 (6): 739-763

This paper goes into more detail on the environmental modeling and is optional for that reason, but its introduction does a bit better job than the book chapter of setting up the context and larger questions framing the work.

- Supplementary readings for more detail on other parts of the project (3 - 6):

3) Lee and Tuljapurkar 2008 details food-dependent demographic dynamics when populations are in a phase of long-term exponential growth.

4) Puleston and Tuljpurkar 2008 give details of how demography changes when total land area begins to limit population growth.

5) Lee et al. 2009 examine both growing and space-limited populations with environmental variability.

6) Ladefoged et al. 2008 explains the application of the coupled model to questions about social organization.

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Reference Materials

Title	Author name	Source name	Year	Citation count From Scopus. Refreshed every 5 days.	Page views
Population and prehistory I: Food-dependent population growth in constant environments	Charlotte T. Lee, Shripad Tuljapurkar	Theoretical Population Biology	2008	48	7
Risky business: Temporal and spatial variation in preindustrial dryland agriculture	Charlotte T. Lee, Shripad Tuljapurkar, Peter M. Vitousek	Human Ecology	2006	32	3
Modeling life expectancy and surplus production of dynamic pre-contact territories in leeward Kohala, Hawai'i	Thegn N. Ladefoged, Charlotte T. Lee, Michael W. Graves	Journal of Anthropological Archaeology	2008	31	5
Population and prehistory III: Food-dependent demography in variable environments	Charlotte T. Lee, Cedric O. Puleston, Shripad Tuljapurkar	Theoretical Population Biology	2009	30	3
Population and prehistory II: Space-limited human populations in constant environments.	Puleston, C., Tuljapurkar, S.	Theoretical Population Biology	2008	0	7
Quantitative, dynamic models to integrate environment, population, and society	Charlotte T Lee	Roots of Conflict: Soils, Agriculture, and Sociopolitical Complexity in Ancient Hawai'i (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series)	2011	0	5