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Useful Links
United Nations Sites (in alphabetical order)UN (Home page) UN Development Programme UN Division for Sustainable Development UN Environment Programme UN Food and Agriculture Organization UN High Commission for Refugees UN Industrial Development Organization International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies UN Population Division UN Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Demographic Manuals on-line UN Population Fund UN Population Information Network UN Statistics Division, Demographic and Social Statistics UN University Institute for Environment and Human Security UN World Food Programme UN World Health Organisation Some Official United Kingdom SitesAll Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health UK Parliament TSO. Information and Publishing Solutions (provides access to many government papers) ESDS (Government: surveys, newsletters, links) Cabinet Office (coordinates policy and strategy across government departments) 10 Downing Street (Prime Minister and the Government, news releases) Department for Communities and Local Government Directgov (UK government website for citizens) Home Office (UK internal affairs, including crime, terrorism, drugs, race relations, immigration, and research in these areas) Migration Impacts Forum (of the Home Office UK Border Agency) Migration Advisory Committee Strategic Migration Partnership MI5 (the UK Security Service responsible for protecting the UK against threats to national security) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Department for International Development Department of Trade and Industry Government Actuary's Department Office of National Statistics (access here to the series publications Population Trends, National Population Projections Series PP2, and International Migration Series MN, as well as statistics on many other subjects) Centre for Population Change (UK. Issues surrounding migration, fertility and ageing including the implications for society of migration both within and beyond national borders) Commission for Rural Communities English Nature Environment Agency Natural England (formerly the Countryside Agency) UK Sustainable Development Commission UK Border Agency Intergovernmental Consultations on Migration, Asylum and refugees Some United Kingdom University Sites (in alphabetical order)British Society for Population Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science Built Environment Department, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and Chelmsford (for Research–Population and Housing Research Group) Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) Centre for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, Warwick University Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship Economic and Social Research Council Research Centre for Population Change Environment and Society Research Unit at University College, London Environmental Change Institute Geography Department, University of Dundee (for population geography) Inter-Governmental Consultations on Migration, Asylum and Refugees International Migration Institute, Oxford University Migration Research Unit, Geography Department, University College, London Natural Environment Research Council Oxford Centre for Population Research, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, Oxford University Oxford Institute of Ageing (addressing demographic ageing at a global, societal, and individual level) PopGroup (UK. PopGroup is a family of software developed to forecast population, households and the labour force for areas and social groups) Refugee Study Centre, Oxford University Social and Cultural Geography Group, Swansea University Social and Spatial Inequalities Research Group, Sheffield University Social Science Information Gateway Understanding Population Trends and Processes Climate Change Sites (in alphabetical order)Climate Action Network (network of NGOs concerned with problems of climate change) Climate Concern UK (provides information and ideas for campaigning on climate change, and helps activists to link up) Climate Group (a UK and USA based group of organisations committed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions) Climatewire.org (climate change information service) Dan's Earth Changes Report European Climate Change Programme Global Warming Issues Global Warming Policy Foundation Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change National Center for Atmospheric Research, Colorado, USA Pew Centre on Global Climate Change Responding to Climate Change Tomorrow's Climate Today's Challenge (the UK government's web site to promote understanding of the challenge of climate change) Tyndall Centre (a UK centre for trans-disciplinary research on climate change) UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) (helps organisations assess how they might be affected by climate change; provides information about climate change) UK Meteorological Office Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research (carries out climate modelling; also gives links to other climate modelling centres worldwide) World Meteorological Organization http://www.wmo.ch/pages/index_en.html/ NB. The Scientific Alliance (listed in the following section) currently has climate change as one focus of interest. For a dissident view on global warming see the Cooler Head Coalition Persons who would like to receive on-going critical comments about climate change analysis, related matters, and cosmic events, can receive these from Benny Peiser, editor CCNet. They should subscribe by sending an e-mail to listserver@livjm.ac.uk (subject line: “subscribe cambridge-conference”). Other National and International Sites (in alphabetical order)Abernethy (eclectic researcher, writer and campaigner on population matters, upholding the rule of law and liberty, and other issues) Alliance Knowledge Partnership Demographics American Immigration Control Foundation Apply the Breaks ('help us stop unsustainable U.S. Population Growth') A Rocha ('an international conservation organisation working to care for God's world') Association for Population/ Family Planning Libraries and Information Centers - International Association of Environmentalists for nuclear energy Audubon Population and Habitat Program Balanced Migration (a cross party group of the UK parliament) Best Foot Forward (for ecological footprint studies) British Ecological Society British Society for Population Studies Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) Campaign for Political Ecology Campaign to Protect Rural England Canada First Immigration Reform Committee Carrying Capacity Network Census Bureau International Programs Centre Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy Center for Environment and Population (focuses on the USA) Center for Immigration Studies (USA) (Offers free e-mail information services, including Immigration Overseas) Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University (CIESIN) (interdisciplinary research related to human interactions in the environment) Center for Migration Studies New York Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The World Factbook (includes demographic and environmental data and much else, country by country) Centre for Social Cohesion (founded by Civitas, UK) Centre on Migration Policy and Society Christian Ecology Link (UK) Club of Rome (a global think tank and centre of innovation and initiative focusing on the critical issues that will determine the future of humanity and of the planet. It commissioned research the outcome of which was the book 'Limits to growth') Columbia University Earth Institute Committee for International Cooperation in National Research in Demography Consortium for Applied Research on Migration Controlling growth in our communities (for North American activists) Council of Europe Publishing: Population Council of Europe, Population, Social Cohesion and Quality of Life Cross Party Group on Balanced Migration (UK parliamentarians who advocate that immigration should be brought down to the level of emigration) Culture Change (Sustainable Energy Institute, California, USA) Development Gateway (sharing knowledge on sustainable development and poverty reduction. A lot on population issues) Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty Die Off (A very wide-ranging detailed source, with the starting point of fossil fuel depletion) Earth Council Earth Day Network (USA based, promotes environmental citizenship worldwide) Earth Policy Institute Elm Farm Research Centre (promotes sustainable land-use based on organic principles) Envirolink (provides access to environmental resources, globally but with a focus on the USA) Environment, Health and Development Network Environment News Service Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) Environmental Literacy Council Environmental Sustainability Index (a measure of overall progress towards environmental sustainability) Eurobarometer 66. Public Opinion in the European Union Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration European Commission, Agriculture and Rural Development European Council on refugees and exiles European Migration Centre European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic relations European Union Information Website (EU and Europe) European University Institute. Migration Policy Centre Eurostat, Population data. European Commission Family Planning Association (UK) Findhorn Foundation (spiritual approach to the environment; ecovillage) Forum for the Future (works in partnership with business, the public sector and others to build a sustainable future) Forum on religion and ecology (main religions: attitudes to ecology) Fragilecologies Friends of the Earth UK Global Footprint Network (promotes the ecological footprint method to achieve sustainability) Global Issues (environmental, trade related, geopolitics, etc.) Global Population Speak Out (claims it aims to break down the barrier to public discussion of overpopulation) etc.) Green Alliance (promotes UK policies for a better environment) Growth Is Madness (GIM addresses the need to confront our continued irrational push for unending growth on a finite earth) Guardian, The (UK) (on population issues) Immigration Concern (news items on population matters and links to relevant organisations) Immigration Control Platform (Ireland) Immigration Spot (focuses on immigration legal matters) Immigration Watch Canada Institute for Population Studies USA Institute for Public Policy Research (UK) Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California Intergovernmental Consultations on Migration Asylum and Refugees International Centre for Migration Policy Development, Vienna International Council for Human Ecology and Ethnology International Development Research Centre, Canada, Resource Clock (for related issues click on "idrc home") International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (inter-disciplinary studies on environmental, economic, population and other issues) International Institute for Environment and Development International Institute for Sustainable Development International Labour Organisation International Organisation for Migration, Geneva International Planned Parenthood Federation International Union for the Scientific Study of Population Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences (UK organisation that explains the Islamic position on environmental protection and adopts a practical approach to resolve current issues) Jack Parson's archive (Important publications on population matters by a former patron of the Optimum Population Trust) John Feeney (“an environmental writer with a focus on fundamental but underreported, often generally unrecognized ecological issues” including adverse effects of human population growth) Limits to Growth (“an iconoclastic view of immigration and culture”, with a focus on the USA) Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Migration Information Source Migration News Migration Policy Institute Migration Watch UK National Immigration Forum (USA) Negative Population Growth Netcen (UK provider of consultancy, technical and field services in air quality, contaminated land and waste management, to Governments, Local Authorities, Regulators and Industry) Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute New Economics Foundation (aims to construct a new economy centred on people and the environment) NumbersUSA (focuses on control of immigration) Office of Population Research, Princeton University Optimum Population Trust Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD) Pensions Policy Institute (UK) (site included since reforming pension policy ia a vital component of reforming immigration policy) People and the Planet Planet Thoughts (thoughts directed towards caring for our planet) Population Action International Population Connection (effects of population growth, main focus the USA) Population Council of New York (sustainable approaches to enhancing people's health and well-being world-wide) Population Environment Balance Population and Environment Linkages Service, National Council for Science and the Environment (Washington) Population Environment Research Network (PERN) Population Index Population Information Program of the John Hopkins School of Public Health Population Institute Population Media Center (uses entertainment-education for social change) Population Policy Press (established by the late Jack Parsons, with details of his works on population matters) Population Reference Bureau, Washington DC Population and Sustainability Network Prince of Wales's Business and the Environment Programme Princeton University's Office of Population Research Project USA for an Immigration Time-out Property and Environment Research Center (seeks market solutions to environmental problems) Redefining Progress (sustainability issues and ecological footprint studies) Refugee Council (UK) Refugee Studies Centre (at Oxford University, UK) Resilience Alliance (studies the capacity of ecosystems to tolerate disturbance) Rockefeller University Program for the Human Environment Scientific Alliance (promotes sound science in the radical discussion of environmental challenges, and provides useful information on a wide range of environmental issues) Scientists for Global Responsibility Scientists for Population Reduction Sierra Club (claims to be America's oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization) Social Science Research Council. Migration. (USA) Sovereignty (significance of national sovereignty for population and environmental issues) Stockholm Environment Institute (science and policy of environment and development) Sustainability Southeast (towards a sustainable human culture; the relationship between food supply, human population growth and ecosystem deterioration) Sustainable Development Commission UK The environmentalist ThinkPopulation.org (focuses on the USA) Traffic (has the mission to ensure that trade in wild plants and animals is not a threat to the conservation of nature) Transition Towns (helping communities to respond to the twin challenges of Peak Oil and Climate Change). UK Biodiversity Action Plan UK Clearing House Mechanism for Biodiversity U.S. Census Bureau (information on the whole world as well as the USA) U.S. Immigration: A guide to the visa and green card VDARE,Peter Brimelow (Center for American Unity. Relationships of immigration to sovereignty and democracy) Vienna Institute of Demography Wildpro (WildPro multimedia is an Electronic Encyclopaedia for wildlife, providing information relating to natural history, wildlife health and management; UK based) WorldMapper (maps and data sets on population and many other variables) World Bank (major source of information about development and the environment) World Business Council for Sustainable Development World Conservation Union (IUCN) Worldwatch Institute (a major source of global environmental analysis, especially its annual publications 'State of the World' and 'Vital Signs') World Overpopulation Awareness World Resources Institute World Wide Fund For Nature, WWF International World Wide Fund For Nature, UK branch Giving the above links does not imply we agree with the policies of all the organisations concerned.
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