7 BILLION AND YOU
A David and Cecilia Ting Endowment Fund Lecture Series
Demography of the Seven Billion
Thursday, January 24, 2013, 7:00 pm,
Room 1900, SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings
Presented by Dr. Warren C. Sanderson, Professor, Economics and
History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Abstract:
Where is the world population heading - what happens when we get there?
The world’s population is expected to peak at between 9 and 10 billion and then slowly decline.
This talk will focus on multiple aspects of the world’s march toward population stability: how
do we know it will happen, what is its timing, what are the regional implications, how much
older will the world’s population get, and what are the implications of this stability for world
environmental change.
Bio-Sketch:
Warren Sanderson holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University. He is a professor of economics and a
professor of history at Stony Brook University in the US state of New York. He is also an institute scholar in the World
Population Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria and a member
of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital in Vienna, Austria. His research interests lie
in the interactions between population and economics. He has published in a variety of journals, including Nature,
Science, Population and Development Review, Demography, Population Studies, and Demographic Research. His
recent research includes probabilistic population forecasting, innovative approaches to the study of population
aging, as well as the effects of education and other demographic changes on economic growth.
7 Billion and You is a series of free public lectures and discussions by
leading thinkers on the patterns, processes and prognosis for a planet
housing 7 billion humans and counting. It is hosted by the Human
Evolutionary Studies Program in cooperation with Continuing Studies
in Science and Environment at Simon Fraser University. For details on
all of the lectures visit (www.sfu.ca/cstudies/science/projects.php). All
of the lectures will be recorded and available on the website. For more
information, contact: lauriew@sfu.ca
Sponsors:
Faculty of Environment, SFU
Faculty of Science, SFU
Human Evolutionary Studies Program, SFU
David and Cecilia Ting Endowment, Lifelong Learning, SFU
Reservations:
As seating is limited, reservations are recommended: www.sfu.ca/reserve
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Upcoming Lectures:
Drivers of the Seven Billion, Dr. Shripad Tuljapurkar, Population Studies, Stanford University, Ca, Jan 31
Ethics and the Seven Billion, Dr. Christine Overall, Philosophy, Queen’s University, Feb 21
The Economics of the Seven Billion, Dr. Nicolas Eberstadt, Amerincan Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, Feb 28
Resources and the Seven Billion, Dr. William Rees, Population Ecology, UBC, Mar 7
YOU and the Seven Billion - a discussion moderated by Don White, Interdisciplinary Studies, SFU, March 14