Franz PRETTENTHALER - Lukas MEYER - Wolfgang POLT (Hg.)


Demographic and Climate Change

The growing number of people and its consequences for ecology, social redistribution systems and urban living


Franz  Prettenthaler
ist Leiter der Forschungsgruppe Regionalpolitik, Risiko- und Ressoucenökonomik am Institut für Wirtschafts- und Innovationsforschung (POLICIES) der JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Graz

Lukas Meyer
ist Professor für Praktische Philosophie und Leiter des Arbeitsbereiches Praktische Philosophie, Geisteswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

Wolfgang Polt
ist Direktor des Instituts für Wirtschafts- und Innovationsforschung (POLICIES) der JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Graz/Wien





ISBN 978-3-7001-7833-0 Online Edition

Studien zum Klimawandel in Österreich 10 
2015,  196 Seiten
€  29,–   

A growing population is good for social redistribution systems but bad for the climate. Beyond this simple statement, demography, economic development, resource usage, climate change and political interventions influencing migration, fertility and social redistribution are not so easily brought together in a way to fully acknowledge for their interdependency. This book takes up the associated methodological challenges that are mirrored by several paradoxes: On the one hand, the reduction of western societies’ ecological footprint is well supported by declining birth rates. On the other hand, sustainable transport, waste or sewage systems call either for population growth or a stronger urbanization of a declining population to remain affordable. At the same time, there is the argument of population growth being necessary to finance the welfare state, its pen¬sion systems as well as elderly care. As both “solutions” to demographic decline – increased migration and pro-natalist family policies – are politically heavily disputed, and given the interdependencies of population growth, climate change and resource availability, this collection of articles shows, that an expert discussion on these aspects should indeed include the necessary normative aspects associated with the questions of influencing population size by policies. This book contains the inputs of international high profile researchers, discussing how these issues will shape the socio-economic reality in the middle of the century.

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Franz PRETTENTHALER - Lukas MEYER - Wolfgang POLT (Hg.)


Demographic and Climate Change

The growing number of people and its consequences for ecology, social redistribution systems and urban living




ISBN 978-3-7001-7833-0
Online Edition
Studien zum Klimawandel in Österreich 10 
2015,  196 Seiten
€  29,–   


Franz  Prettenthaler
ist Leiter der Forschungsgruppe Regionalpolitik, Risiko- und Ressoucenökonomik am Institut für Wirtschafts- und Innovationsforschung (POLICIES) der JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Graz

Lukas Meyer
ist Professor für Praktische Philosophie und Leiter des Arbeitsbereiches Praktische Philosophie, Geisteswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

Wolfgang Polt
ist Direktor des Instituts für Wirtschafts- und Innovationsforschung (POLICIES) der JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Graz/Wien

A growing population is good for social redistribution systems but bad for the climate. Beyond this simple statement, demography, economic development, resource usage, climate change and political interventions influencing migration, fertility and social redistribution are not so easily brought together in a way to fully acknowledge for their interdependency. This book takes up the associated methodological challenges that are mirrored by several paradoxes: On the one hand, the reduction of western societies’ ecological footprint is well supported by declining birth rates. On the other hand, sustainable transport, waste or sewage systems call either for population growth or a stronger urbanization of a declining population to remain affordable. At the same time, there is the argument of population growth being necessary to finance the welfare state, its pen¬sion systems as well as elderly care. As both “solutions” to demographic decline – increased migration and pro-natalist family policies – are politically heavily disputed, and given the interdependencies of population growth, climate change and resource availability, this collection of articles shows, that an expert discussion on these aspects should indeed include the necessary normative aspects associated with the questions of influencing population size by policies. This book contains the inputs of international high profile researchers, discussing how these issues will shape the socio-economic reality in the middle of the century.



Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
A-1011 Wien, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2
Tel. +43-1-515 81/DW 3420, Fax +43-1-515 81/DW 3400
https://verlag.oeaw.ac.at, e-mail: verlag@oeaw.ac.at