Joel Cohen Delivers the 2007 Pardee Distinguished Lectures

Eminent demographer and head of the Laboratory of Populations at Rockefeller University, Prof. Joel E. Cohen delivered a set of five lectures on “The Human Population: Past, or Passing, or To Come” as part of the Pardee Distinguished Lecture Series.

The series explored the current and likely 2050 population, the Earth’s carrying capacity, preparing for an uncertain future, and a discussion of whether sustainability, globalization, and national democracies. Prof. Cohen’s lectures looked at the pressing questions related to the current and future challenges of human populations.