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Demographic aspects of climate change mitigation and adaptation

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  • Wolfgang Lutz
  • Erich Striessnig

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This paper addresses the contribution of changes in population size and structures to greenhouse gas emissions and to the capacity to adapt to climate change. The paper goes beyond the conventional focus on the changing composition by age and sex. It does so by addressing explicitly the changing composition of the population by level of educational attainment, taking into account new evidence about the effect of educational attainment in reducing significantly the vulnerability of populations to climatic challenges. This evidence, which has inspired a new generation of socio-economic climate change scenarios, is summarized. While the earlier IPCC-SRES (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change--Special Report on Emissions Scenarios) scenarios only included alternative trajectories for total population size (treating population essentially as a scaling parameter), the Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs) in the new scenarios were designed to capture the socio-economic challenges to climate change mitigation and adaptation, and include full age, sex, and education details for all countries.

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  • Wolfgang Lutz & Erich Striessnig, 2015. "Demographic aspects of climate change mitigation and adaptation," Population Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 69(sup1), pages 69-76, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpstxx:v:69:y:2015:i:sup1:p:s69-s76
    DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2014.969929
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    1. Ethan Sharygin, 2013. "The Carbon Cost of an Educated Future: A Consumer Lifestyle Approach," VID Working Papers 1304, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.
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    1. Raya Muttarak & Wolfgang Lutz & Leiwen Jiang, 2015. "What can demographers contribute to the study of vulnerability?," Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, vol. 13(1), pages 1-13.
    2. Erich Striessnig & Elke Loichinger, 2015. "Future differential vulnerability to natural disasters by level of education," Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, vol. 13(1), pages 221-240.
    3. Jake Organ & David Dixon & Kira Villa, 2023. "Climate Change, Fertility and Sahelian Demographics," Journal of Sustainable Development, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 16(1), pages 1-1, May.
    4. Thang Dao & Matthias Kalkuhl & Chrysovalantis Vasilakis, 2022. "The slow demographic transition in regions vulnerable to climate change," ISER Discussion Paper 1190, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University.
    5. Hélène Benveniste & Jesús Crespo Cuaresma & Matthew Gidden & Raya Muttarak, 2021. "Tracing international migration in projections of income and inequality across the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 166(3), pages 1-22, June.

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