Gayl D. Ness

Biography:
Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Public Health, app’t 1964
B.A. University of California at Berkeley, 1954
Graduate Diploma: University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1956
M.A. University of California at Berkeley, 1957
Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, 1961

Number of Theses/Dissertations Supervised in Past 5 Years: 11

Research/Teaching Specializations: Economic development, population, environmental change

Field Research: Population-Environment dynamics with field work in South and Southeast Asia, Japan; Urban and Colonial History, with work on Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Pakistan; Urban development and modern environmental issues, with work on Pakistan, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea, China and Japan; Collaboration with the Asian Urban Information Center, Kobe, Japan. Nihon University Population Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan. United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), 1995-96; International Union for the Conservation of Nature, World Conservation Congress, Gland, Switzerland; USAID Office of Population, Center for Population, Health and Nutrition, and Center for the Environment; Population Reference Bureau, Washington, D.C.

Recent Publications: “Five Cities: Modelling Asian Urban Population Environment Dynamics,” (edited with Michael M. Low), Singapore: Oxford University Press 2000; Population and Strategies for National Sustainable Development, London: Earthscan Press, 1996; “World Population Growth and Environmental Change,” in Environmental Overview, 2 vols., Scandinavian Scientific Press, 1996; “World Apart: Thailand and the Philippines,” People and the Planet, Volume 3, No. 3, 1994; Population and Environment: Frameworks for Analysis, Madison, Wisconsin: EPAT, 1994; Population-Environment Dynamics: Ideas and Observations, with W. Drake and S. Brechin, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993

Awards and Honors: Hewlett Foundation Grant recipient, UNFPA Grant recipient

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