The Complex Environmental Population Interactions Project

The challenge raised by the interactions of global climate change and rapidly changing demographic structures throughout the world carries both opportunities if successfully managed, and significant risks if public policy interventions fail. The impact of population change upon the environment, and conversely that of environmental change upon populations, has been to a surprising extent ignored by most environmentalists and demographers, and when it has been considered, the issue of population growth has dominated the analysis, to the almost complete neglect of key dynamics in population structure – age structural transitions, spatial distributions, cohort changes. Yet the interaction of age structural changes, urbanization and migration is likely to have a significant, as yet unknown, effect. The Complex Environmental Population Interactions Project unites key demographers, economists, anthropologists, philosophers and environmentalists to address through research, modeling and scenarios, the range of complex interactions between environmental and demographic change over the first half of the 21st century.

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£1m Donation from Clore Duffield Foundation to support population research

The Institute would like to express its gratitude to the Clore Duffield Foundation, and to Dame Vivien Duffield, Chair of the Trustees, for their generous donation of £1 million to support the work of the Institute.

The donation will be used to establish The Clore Duffield Programme of Research.

The Oxford Institute of Ageing is a multi-disciplinary research institute which believes that the production of high quality, strategic research, which informs and is informed by good policy and practice, will lead to a greater understanding of societies as they age.

We are committed to:

• the production of cutting edge leading research
• creation of  dynamic partnerships with government, business, NGOs and the public
• wide dissemination of policy relevant findings
• training of tomorrow's researchers and professionals

The demographic ageing of societies represents one of the major challenges for the 21st century. As fertility has fallen, longevity has increased, with older people living longer and healthier old ages. Technology has altered employment patterns, social moves and demography have affected family forms, kinship roles and intergenerational relationships, and medical advances are extending healthy active life. The experience and meaning of old age is being transformed.

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