PSN Presentations
Below is a sample list of presentations delivered by PSN at external conferences and events. Presentations delivered at PSN events are available via the links to the left.
Further information about PSN publications, presentations and events is available in News & Events.
Image: PSN Karen Newman's presentation on the links between population dynamics and climate change, delivered at a UNFPA meeting on sustainable development in December 2010, New York.
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Population: Avoiding Heffalump Traps
Date: 23/07/2011
Author(s) Catherine Budgett-MeakinPresentation outlining the reasons why population has disappeared off the international development agenda, delivered at Mensa's Annual Conference in Cambridge.
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Family Planning: Nice to Have or Critical for Advancing Gender Equality?
Date: 15/03/2011
Author(s) Sarah Fisher, PSN.Presentation examining the importance of family planning for gender equality, delivered at a UCL Gender and Health Pannel Discussion.
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Previous experiences in linking population, gender and climate change
Date: 14/12/2010
Author(s) Karen Newman, PSNPresentation outlining the links between population dynamics and climate change and the challenges in promoting integrated responses, delivered at a UNFPA meeting on sustainable development, gender and climate change in New York.
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Linking sexual and reproductive health and climate change: Poisoned chalice or opportunity to advance rights?
Date: 25/05/2010
Author(s) Karen Newman, PSN.Presentation relecting on the senstitivies and complexitives of linking population dynamics to climate change, delivered at a Joint meeting of the Gender And Development Network and the UK Network on Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights.
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Climate Change and Global Warming: Population Left Out in the Cold?
Date: 05/07/2009
Author(s) Louise Carver, PSN.Presentation advocating investment in voluntary family planning as a strategy for reducing vulnerability to climate change, delivered at the launch of the Guardian and Manchester International Film Festival's "The Manchester Report" on climate change solutions.
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Gender and Climate Change Adaptation
Date: 24/06/2009
Author(s) Karen Newman, PSN.Presentation examining the gendered dimensions of climate change vulnerability and adaptation, delivered at a UNFPA/ IIED Expert Group meeting on Population and Climate Change.
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Population Growth in Ethiopia; Causes, Impacts and Wider Areas of Influence
Date: 22/05/2009
Author(s) Louise Carver, PSN.Address to the Anglo-Ethiopia Society, London, examining the consequences of and solutions to rapid population growth in Ethiopia.
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Can addressing population growth help tackle climate change and food security challenges?
Date: 21/11/2008
Author(s) Karen Newman, PSN.Presentation on the links between population growth, food security and climate change vulnerability, delivered at a AFPPD organised parallel session at the Annual Meeting of the Parliamentarians Network of the World Bank, Paris.
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Ethical Dimensions of Addressing Population Growth Issues
Date: 02/10/2008
Author(s) Karen Newman, PSN.Address at the 2008 EuroNGOs Annual Conference in Lyon, France, considering the ethical considerations and sensitivities of addressing population growth issues.
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Population Growth, Environment and Development
Date: 10/04/2006
Author(s) Catherine Budgett-Meakin, PSNPresentation at the Green Economics Institute, Oxford, outlining the need for population issues to be integrated into environmental and devleopment policy.
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Why the Silence?
Date: 13/10/2005
Author(s) Professor Martha Campbell, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, PSN Advisory Group Member.Presentation delivered at PSN's 2005 AGM, arguing the need to overcome the silence on world population growth.
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Population, Development and Poverty Reduction
Date: 13/07/2005
Author(s) Catherine Budgett-Meakin, PSN.Presentation at a London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)seminar on the significance of population issues for development and poverty reduction.