POPULATION CHANGE - NATURAL

RESOURCES - ENVIRONMENT LINKAGES

IN THE CST "EAST AND

CENTRAL AFRICA" SUB-REGION

Alain Marcoux
FAO Population Programme Service
October 1997


CONTENTS

1. Population and natural resources: the background

1.1 Population size and growth
1.2 Urbanization
1.3 Natural resources

2. Population and environment seen from Rio

2.1 Main environmental issues in the region
2.2 Population aspects of environmental issues and policies

3. Land degradation and its factors
3.1 Levels of degradation
3.2 Types of degradation
3.3 Causes of degradation and population factors

4. A close-up on water resource issues

5. Population-environment linkages and population programmes

Annex

Notes

References