Population, Environmental Risks and Climate Change
A multidisciplinary Population Council initiative examining how environmental change interacts with population dynamics, vulnerability, resilience, adaptation, and development.
Project Overview
About the project
PERCC brought together demographic, social, behavioral, environmental, and spatial evidence to strengthen understanding of climate-related vulnerability and support more effective adaptation, resilience, policy, and program responses.
Resources
Project Resources
Research Report
Climate, Population and Vulnerability in Pakistan
This monograph brings together climate and demographic evidence to examine how population dynamics interact with climate vulnerability and adaptation in Pakistan. Drawing on contributions from national experts in meteorology, agriculture, migration, and population, it provides a regionally nuanced assessment of climatic exposure, socioeconomic and demographic vulnerability, internal migration, resilience, and the implications of climate-population interactions for agriculture and food security.
Research Report
Climate Change in Vulnerable Communities - Sindh
This working paper documents how climate change is experienced by vulnerable communities in Sindh through qualitative evidence from affected populations. It examines perceived climatic changes and their effects on livelihoods, coping and adaptation strategies, migration, marriage and family planning, access to water and food, shelter, health, workloads, education, and psychosocial well-being. The report highlights the compounding effects of poverty, gender inequality, weak services, and environmental stress and calls for stronger livelihood diversification, health and nutrition support, education, family planning, and climate-resilient development.