Population Thematic Portal: News
Low Elevation Coastal Zone Article Featured in Environment and Urbanization
Date: April 2006
This article by Gordon McGranahan, Deborah Balk and Bridget Anderson describes the distribution of human settlements in low elevation coastal zones around the world.
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UN Releases World Population Prospects 2006
Date: March 13, 2007
The results of the 2006 Revision—which provide the population basis for the assessment of trends at the global, regional, and national levels, and serve as input for calculating many key indicators in the United Nations system—incorporate the findings of the most recent national population censuses and the numerous specialized population surveys carried out around the world.
IUSSP Workshop: “Rethinking the Estimation and Projection of Urban and City Populations”
Date: January 9-10, 2006
This one-and-a-half day seminar gathers junior and senior researchers interested in urban population growth and growth forecasting in poor countries, to consider how new sources of data (from demographic surveys and from remotely-sensed or other geographically-coded data sets) may be used to improve the estimation and projection of urban growth.
