. "Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Population and Land Use in Developing Countries: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1993.
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Population and Land Use in Developing Countries: Report of a Workshop
Appendix Workshop Agenda
Thursday, December 5
9:00–9:15 a.m.
Welcome and rationale
Carole L. Jolly, Committee on Population
Barbara Boyle Torrey, Committee on Population and Population Reference Bureau
9:15–10:15
Historical Overview of Land Use Change
M. Gordon Wolman, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
10:15–11:15
Measurement of Land Use Change
Isaak S. Zonneveld, International Institute of Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences, The Netherlands
11:15–11:45
Break
11:45–12:45 p.m.
Current Approaches to the Study of Population Change and Land Use: Correlations and the Research Efforts of Other Organizations
Billie L. Turner II, George Perkins Marsh Institute, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University
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Population and Land Use in Developing Countries: Report of a Workshop
Appendix
Workshop Agenda
Thursday, December 5
9:00–9:15 a.m.
Welcome and rationale
Carole L. Jolly, Committee on Population
Barbara Boyle Torrey, Committee on Population and Population Reference Bureau
9:15–10:15
Historical Overview of Land Use Change
M. Gordon Wolman, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
10:15–11:15
Measurement of Land Use Change
Isaak S. Zonneveld, International Institute of Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences, The Netherlands
11:15–11:45
Break
11:45–12:45 p.m.
Current Approaches to the Study of Population Change and Land Use: Correlations and the Research Efforts of Other Organizations
Billie L. Turner II, George Perkins Marsh Institute, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University
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12:45–1:45
Lunch
1:45–2:45
Population Growth and Technological Change in Agriculture
Hans Binswanger, Agriculture Operations, Latin America and the Caribbean, The World Bank
2:45–3:45
Using Cross-National Data to Understand Population,
Land Use, and the Environment Richard E. Bilsborrow, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3:45–4:15
Break
4:15–5:15
Discussant
Steward T.A. Pickett, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, The New York Botanical Garden
Friday, December 6
Case Studies
8:30–10:00 a.m.
Africa
Uma Lele, Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida
Nigeria
Michael Mortimore, University of Cambridge
10:00–10:30
Break
10:30–12:45 p.m.
India—Analytical Strategies for Studying Population Change and Land Use
Robert E. Evenson, Department of Economics, Yale University
Mauritius
Wolfgang Lutz, Population Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria
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Thailand
Theodore Panayotou, Harvard Institute for International Development and Department of Economics, Harvard University (Advisor to the Natural Resources and Environment Division of the Thailand Development Research Institute)
12:45–1:45
Lunch
1:45–2:30
Honduras
Billie R. DeWalt, Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky*
2:30–3:30
Population Growth, Environmental Change, and Institutional Innovation
Vernon W. Ruttan, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota
3:30–4:00
Break
4:00–5:00
Wrap-up and discussion
Samuel H. Preston, Committee on Population and Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
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Now, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh
