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|Pre-meeting notes=Due to tight coupling between human population dynamics and their local environments, preindustrial societies—particularly ones on islands--are useful for studying population-environment interaction.  In Hawai’i, rapid human population growth and sophisticated social stratification took place before European contact, in the context of sometimes extreme environmental variability.  These phenomena define questions, inform the structure of quantitative models, and guide the development of further hypotheses regarding how environment and population interact. I describe how agroecological and environment-dependent demographic models can be developed and integrated to probe the environment-population dynamics of a dryland field system, and to investigate the consequences and possible causes of social complexity. Results suggest that dynamic incorporation of social change could be an important component of studying population-environment interactions.    
 
|Pre-meeting notes=Due to tight coupling between human population dynamics and their local environments, preindustrial societies—particularly ones on islands--are useful for studying population-environment interaction.  In Hawai’i, rapid human population growth and sophisticated social stratification took place before European contact, in the context of sometimes extreme environmental variability.  These phenomena define questions, inform the structure of quantitative models, and guide the development of further hypotheses regarding how environment and population interact. I describe how agroecological and environment-dependent demographic models can be developed and integrated to probe the environment-population dynamics of a dryland field system, and to investigate the consequences and possible causes of social complexity. Results suggest that dynamic incorporation of social change could be an important component of studying population-environment interactions.    
|Post-meeting notes=Sharing this project at at this meeting has highlighted for me  the value and difficulty of interdisciplinary integration.  For example, there are many places where social organization plays some role in the dynamics of food supply and population change, which has reminded me of how much can be important and how much there is to find out.  I've been excited to see many connections between this work and what other participants are doing, of both the conceptual and methodological variety, which open up potential avenues for broadening this type of work.
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|Post-meeting notes=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.  
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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.
 
|Reference material notes=Lee and Tuljapurkar 2008 details food-dependent demographic dynamics when populations are in a phase of long-term exponential growth.  Puleston and Tuljpurkar 2008 give details of how demography changes when total land area begins to limit population growth.  Lee et al. 2009 examine both growing and space-limited populations with environmental variability.
 
|Reference material notes=Lee and Tuljapurkar 2008 details food-dependent demographic dynamics when populations are in a phase of long-term exponential growth.  Puleston and Tuljpurkar 2008 give details of how demography changes when total land area begins to limit population growth.  Lee et al. 2009 examine both growing and space-limited populations with environmental variability.
 
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Revision as of 16:28, October 15, 2018

October 16, 2018
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm

Presenter

Charlotte Lee (Duke Univ.)

Abstract

Due to tight coupling between human population dynamics and their local environments, preindustrial societies—particularly ones on islands--are useful for studying population-environment interaction.  In Hawai’i, rapid human population growth and sophisticated social stratification took place before European contact, in the context of sometimes extreme environmental variability.  These phenomena define questions, inform the structure of quantitative models, and guide the development of further hypotheses regarding how environment and population interact. I describe how agroecological and environment-dependent demographic models can be developed and integrated to probe the environment-population dynamics of a dryland field system, and to investigate the consequences and possible causes of social complexity. Results suggest that dynamic incorporation of social change could be an important component of studying population-environment interactions.    

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