Whilst our day-to-day lives are seemingly unaffected by population growth, the impact over our lifetime and beyond is significant. Each year the world’s population grows by approximately 83 million people, yet the capacity of our environment is finite. Population issues such as growth, ageing, migration and urbanisation majorly affect:
- Water supplies and usage
- Land use and food production
- Energy sources and management
- Urban planning and development
- Health and welfare systems
- C02 emissions
World Population Day, 11 July, focuses attention on the urgency and importance of understanding and addressing these population issues. Past and projected impacts of population growth on food and agriculture, health, society and the environment can be viewed with the World Population History interactive map.
Find more in-depth research about the effects of population growth on our society, climate and environment through open access research on Griffith Research Online:
- Practice, Practitioners and Redirection for Adapting Australian Cities
- Boomer Planning: The Production of Age-Friendly Cities
- Population growth rates: Connecting mathematics to studies of society and the environment
- Changing Landscapes, climates and ideals of home in a hyper-neoliberal city: A Gold Coast story
- Innovative approaches to building housing system resilience: a focus on the Australian social and affordable housing system
- Rethinking Social Housing: Effective, Efficient, Equitable Final Industry Report
- Federal policy for Australia’s cities: The 2011 National Urban Policy in historical and comparative perspective
- An Imbalance Assessment of Coastal Water Supply and Demand in a Highly Populated Area: A System Dynamics Approach
- Carrion preference in Australian coastal raptors: Effects of urbanisation on scavenging
- Towards an Urban Sustainability Assessment Framework: Supporting Public Deliberation around Sustainability of Specific Contexts
Search Griffith Research Online for more research on the impact of population growth.
