Population Issues Network Newswatch

Looking at the world through demographics. This blog covers population in the news. Accelerating demographic growth is now the main factor driving biodiversity loss, growing resource scarcity, poverty and social conflict. Over-production and over-consumption are worsening this ecological crisis. 7 billion in 2011 - 9.3 or 10.6 billion (UN high estimate) by 2050. 80 million additional people a year at current rates! Is it not time to rethink population growth?

Monday, June 20, 2011

Higher Education Tackles Population Issue on Science Week 2011 - Conference announcement: Looking at the Syrian problem

H. Zain / H. Sabbagh

DAMASCUS, (SANA) - Due to the importance of the population issue in Syria as a national issue connected to development, the Ministry of Higher Education dedicated the 51st Science Week 2011 for holding an international conference at Damascus University in November on the demographic changes in Syria and their development ramifications.

Watheq Rasool-Agha, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Science, said the conference will encompass all the ministries, organizations and boards concerned with the population issue, and that it will review several Arab and foreign experiences which shed light on the issue of population in similar environments.

For full article:

http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/06/20/353710.htm