Lectures on Population and Development

In 2009 WPF organized in cooperation with the Society for International Development (SID) and het Institute of Social Studies (ISS) 6 lectures on ‘The Population Question and Development’.

Often population growth is - simplistically - linked with climate change, the food crisis, women's rights or immigration issues. Well known people from The Netherlands and abroad will discuss these interesting issues. The (English) lectures were held at the ISS in The Hague.

Lectures 2009

Downloads

12 November: 6th lecture by Steven Sinding
Is population growth still an issue? Prof. Steven Sinding is Senior Fellow at Guttmacher Institute. Discussant was Minister Koenders for Development Cooperation.
>> Abstract
>> Press release (Dutch)
>> Lecture (part 1)
>> Lecture (part 2)
>> Speech Minister Koenders
>> An article was published in NRC 19 november 2009 (Dutch)

22 October: 5th lecture by Prof. Xizhe Peng
Peng is Dean of the School of Social Development and Public Policy at Fudan University, Shanghai (China). His lecture was about Population, Livelihood and Environment. He "added a Chinese dimension" to the series. Apart from his expertise on famines, he made the connection to the issue of population and family planning in China with issues of environmental/resource constraints and climate change, both in China and the world.
Discussant was Prof. Jeroen Ginneken, NIDI, The Hague (Netherlands) and School of Public health, University of Pretoria (South Africa).
>> Press release (Dutch)
>> Presentation
>> Lecture (part 1)
>> Lecture (part 2)
>> short Bio
>> Report

17 September: 4th lecture by Mari Simonen
Ms. Mari Simonen (UNFPA Deputy Director) held a lecture on Population and Gender.
>> Press release (Dutch)
>> Presentation (English)
>> Impression of the lecture (English)
>> lecture (part 1)
>> lecture (part 2)

18 June: 3rd lecture by John Cleland
Prof. John Cleland of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Centre for Population Studies. Discussant was Joris Voorhoeve (former chair of WPF).
Title: Population and Generation.
>> Pressrelease (Dutch)
>> Presentation
Watch the lecture online
>> Lecture (part one)
>> Lecture (part two)

14 May: second lecture by Nigel Harris
Nigel Harris, Emeritus Professor Development Planning from the University College London addressed three issues both interior and international migration and integration. He discussed the contradiction between an immobile state and a mobile economy. China was the case study.
>>pressrelease (Dutch)
>>presentation (English)
Watch Nigel Harris' lecture and the discussion afterwards:
- Part one (60 min.)
- Part two (60 min.)

Tim Dyson
The first lecture took place on 23 April and was held by Prof. Tim Dyson, Professor Population Studies of the London School of Economics.
>>pressrelease Tim Dyson's lecture (Dutch)
>>summary
>>presentation
Watch Tim Dyson's lecture and the discussion afterwards:
- Part one (60 min.)
- Part two (50 min.)