Climate and Environmental Demography

This panel wishes to address the critical need to synthesize, advance, and coordinate research on multidimensional environment-population linkages through an interdisciplinary population science. The panel will examine how climate change and environmental exposures affect demographic processes (including fertility, mortality, health, migration, and family formation), how population dynamics affect environmental outcomes, and how these impacts differ across space and population subgroups. A central objective of the panel is to accelerate the production of rigorous, interdisciplinary evidence that advances theory, identifies mechanisms and vulnerabilities, quantifies impacts, and informs policy and intervention. To meet this objective, the panel will promote best practice methodological approaches and methodological innovation – such as the integration of demographic models with environmental data, causal inference approaches, and the use of high-resolution exposure measures. It will further strengthen global research connections by facilitating collaboration between demographers, social scientists, epidemiologists and public health experts, environmental researchers, and practitioners, with particular attention to perspectives from low- and middle-income countries where climate risks are most acute.