About us
The Laureate Centre for History & Population researches how population policies emerged over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and what their present legacies are, especially in a climate-changed world. We consider the significance of population for modern world history, economic history, environmental history, and the history of ideas, each of which were and are gendered and raced. Our focus is on the Asia Pacific region: the great environmental, demographic, political and economic differences between East Asia, South Asian and Australasian politics. We explore other national, regional and international histories comparatively.As the planet approaches 8 billion, international debate on population will be ignited again. Population is an urgent and sensitive global concern in a climate-crisis era, from net growth, to ageing, to low fertility. The Laureate Centre for History & Population approaches the multi-dimensional challenge of population from all angles. It invites expertise on soil fertility and human fertility; economy and ecology; space, growth and limits; food security, energy and waste. Reproductive politics, health politics, and geopolitics all bear on population policy making. State, familial, and individual governance have affected consumption, production, and reproduction in the past and into the climate-changed present.
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