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Links to relevant organisations
Useful Links (* NB Acknowledgements, below)United Nations SitesUN Development Programme UN Environment Programme UN High Commission for Refugees UN Population Division UN Population Fund
Official United Kingdom Sites10 Downing Street (Prime Minister and the Government, news releases) Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (regional and local government,
social exclusion, housing etc.) Lord Chancellor's Department (legal matters) Home Office (UK internal affairs, including crime, terrorism, drugs,
race relations, immigration, and research in these areas) Department for Environment, Food and Rural affairs Department of Trade and Industry Government Actuary's Department Office of National Statistics (access here to the series publications
Population Trends, National Population Projections Series PP2, and International
Migration Series MN, as well as statistics on many other subjects) Countryside Agency English Nature UK Sustainable Development Commission
Some United Kingdom University Sites (in alphabetical order)Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, Warwick University Migration Research Unit, Geography Department, University College, London Oxford Centre for Population Research Population and Housing Research Group, Anglia Polytechnic University Population Geography Research Group Social and Cultural Geography Group, Swansea University Social, Cultural and International Development Studies Research Group,
Newcastle University Social Science Information Gateway Other National and International Sites (in alphabetical order)American Immigration Control Foundation Audubon Population and Habitat Program Best Foot Forward (for ecological footprint studies) Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) Canada First Immigration Reform Committee Carrying Capacity Network Center for Immigration Studies (USA) Center for Migration Studies New York Council for the Protection of Rural England Council of Europe Demographic Developments Demographic entrapment On this site Dr Maurice King deals with the question "What happens to a peasant community if it exceeds the carrying capacity of its local eco-system and its ability to migrate and the ability of its economy to produce the necessary exports which it can exchange for food and other essentials". Dr King, a devout Christian, has very long and wide experience in Africa and he goes on to say that drastic policies are needed if demographic 'disentrapment' is to be achieved. He makes the remarkable claim that many African thinkers and men and women of affairs are privately convinced that the only thing which could now save most African countries is a 'one-child' policy, similar to the one which is beginning to arrest China's giant population explosion. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/demographic.disentrapment
Development Gateway (sharing knowledge on sustainable development and
poverty reduction. A lot on population issues) Die Off (A very wide-ranging detailed source, with the starting point
of fossil fuel depletion) ECO: the campaign for Political Ecology. The aim of ECO is to realign politics around the ecological imperative which requires that we live within the constraints imposed on us by the earth. Environmental Literacy Council Environmental Sustainability Index (a measure of overall progress
towards environmental sustainability) European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic relations Eurostat, European Commission Family Planning Association: Friends of the Earth UK Gaia Watch. Population Growth and Migration, the website of Gaia Watch of the UK. http://www.population-growth-migration.info Green
Party Guardian, The (UK) (on population issues) Intergovernmental Consultations for Asylum, Public Web Site International Centre for Migration Policy Development, Vienna International Development Research Centre, Canada, Resource Clock (for
related issues click on "idrc home") International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
(inter-disciplinary studies on environmental, economic, population and other
issues) International Institute for Sustainable Development International Labour Organisation International Organisation for Migration, Geneva International Society of Malthus International Union for the Scientific Study of Population Migration Policy Institute Migration Watch UK MigrationwatchUK is an independent and non-political body established in October 2001. Its purpose is to monitor migration flow to and from the UK, provide the press and public the most accurate available information, in a comprehensible form, provide balanced comment and identify policy options for consideration by government and society. http://www.migrationwatchuk.org National Immigration Forum (USA) Negative Population Growth Optimum Population Trust Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Pensions Policy Institute (UK) (site included since reforming pension
policy is a vital component of reforming immigration policy) People and the Planet Planned
Parenthood International Population Action International Population Concern: http://www.populationconcern.org.uk Population and Environment Linkages Service, National Council for
Science and the Environment (Washington) Population Environment Balance Population Environment Research Network Population Information Program of the John Hopkins School of Public Health Population Reference Bureau, Washington DC Project USA for an Immigration Time-out Public Web site of the Inter-Governmental Consultations for Asylum Redefining Progress (sustainability issues and ecological footprint
studies) Refugee Council (UK) Scientists for Population Reduction Sustainable Population Australia VDARE, Peter Brimelow (Center for American Unity. Relationships of
immigration to sovereignty and democracy) World Wide Fund For Nature, WWF International
Listing the above links does not imply that I agree with all the policies of all the organisations concerned. I wish to stimulate fully informed and balanced professional public debate on these vital and much neglected issues.
* Acknowledgements We gratefully acknowledge our debt to Dr John Barker, Founder Director of Gaia Watch http://www.population-growth-migration.info for allowing us to cannibalise his carefully researched list of potentially useful links.
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