About
Mission
The growth of the world’s population is at an unprecedented level.
This growth profoundly affects our environment, the pressure on natural resources, and the capacity of many nations to achieve sustainable socioeconomic development. The problem that we face is how to stimulate economic development to meet rapidly expanding human needs while ensuring that we do not destroy the natural resources and environment on which all life ultimately depends.
A new kind of scholar is required to address the many components that contribute to this enormous endeavor, one familiar with global issues through the perspectives of population biology, economics, and social and medical sciences. The search for new approaches to these complex problems demands interdisciplinary cooperation and new modes of collaboration and communication.
Stanford University’s response to the concerns about population-related global issues, and the research and educational needs pertaining to them, is the creation of the Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies (MIPRS), led by Director Marcus W. Feldman, Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Biological Sciences. This interdisciplinary program brings together faculty members and courses in numerous departments and programs: Chemistry, Human Biology, Biological Sciences, Genetics, Mathematics, Civil Engineering, the Hoover Institution, the Food Research Institute, the Public Policy Program, Statistics, Anthropology, Economics, Sociology, the Medical School, and the Center for Conservation Biology.
Related Organizations
Stanford University:
Center for Conservation Biology
Federal Government:
2010 U.S. Census includes Quick Facts about individual states and counties
Other Organizations:
RAND Corporation’s Labor and Population project and its publications.
Population Council, a nongovernmental research organization.
Population Association of America, a cross-discliplinary society of population professionals.
Other Academic Programs
Training in population studies or population planning:
- University of California Bixby Center for Population, Health & Sustainability
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Demography and Ecology
- Princeton University Office of Population Research
- Pennsylvania State University Population Research Institute
- University of North Carolina – Carolina Population Center
- UCLA California Center for Population Research
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- University of Michigan Population Studies Center
- Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
- University of Pennsylvania Population Studies Center
- East-West Center, Hawaii
- University of Washington Population Leadership Program
- University of Maryland, Maryland Population Research Center
- University of Texas Population Research Center
Contact
Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies
Stanford University
371 Jane Stanford Way, Gilbert 116
Mail Code 5020
Stanford, CA 94305
email: lbond [at] stanford.edu (lbond[at]stanford[dot]edu)
phone: (650) 723-7518
fax: (650) 725-8244