About
Spatial and environmental demography is one of CDE’s five primary research areas.
Environmental context, events, and change are of increasing concern to human populations and represent a growing, yet still poorly understood, source of inequality in health and well-being over the life course. Recent research shows that the reality of place—reflecting the natural and built environments, social context, and specific location within a spatial structure—affects a host of outcomes for individuals, including health, socioeconomic attainment and longevity. Place impacts broader demographic processes (i.e., fertility, migration, and mortality), which in turn, influence population size and composition.
For examples of recently funded projects in environmental and spatial demography led by CDE affiliates, please click here.
The CDE working group meets throughout the semester to discuss new and developing research in the rich area of spatial and environmental demography. If you would like to join, please fill out this form. If you have any questions, please contact Megan Bea or Malia Jones.
Working Group Leaders
2022-2023 Schedule
Friday, November 11, 12:00 – 1:10 pm Meet & Greet Luncheon with MCRC Colloquium to follow
Sewell Social Science Building (SSB) Room 8411 only
For our first meeting of the year, Nov 11 from 12:00 – 1:10, we will provide lunch and use the time to get to know one another. For this meeting, we will not have a virtual option. Please RSVP by Nov 9th here. Following lunch, those who are interested will go over to Vilas Hall for a colloquium hosted by CDE faculty affiliate Sijia Yang in Mass Communications, featuring Dr. Ye Wang on causal inference with spatial and temporal spillover effects (see attached flyer).
Here’s the planned lineup for the remainder of the academic year.
December 9: 12:00 – 1:30 pm Sarah Bass in SSB 8411 & virtual
January 13, 2023: 12:00 – 1:30 Alex Miklaus in SSB 8411 & virtual
February 10, 2023: 12:00 – 1:30 Rachel Rosenfield in SSB 8411 & virtual
March 10, 2023: 12:00 – 1:30 Sara Ronnkvist Meeting changed to ONLY virtual
April 7, 2023: 12:00 – 1:30 Tentative: Practice PAA session Note this is a first Friday! We’ll be at PAA on the second Friday of April.
May 12, 2023: 12:00 – 1:30 Hugh Roland, Recent CDE alum Meeting is virtual