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Abbitt, R. J. F., Scott, J. M., & Wilcove, D. S. (2000). The geography of vulnerability: Incorporating species geography and human development patterns into conservation planning. Biological Conservation, 96(2), 169–175. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0006-3207(00)00064-1



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Abel, G. J., Barakat, B., Kc, S., & Lutz, W. (2016). Meeting the sustainable development goals leads to lower world population growth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(50), 14294–14299. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1611386113


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Ament, J. M., Collen, B., Carbone, C., Mace, G. M., & Freeman, R. (2019). Compatibility between agendas for improving human development and wildlife conservation outside protected areas: Insights from 20 years of data. People and Nature, 1(3), 305–316. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10041


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Andermann, T., Faurby, S., Turvey, S. T., Antonelli, A., & Silvestro, D. (2020). The past and future human impact on mammalian diversity. Science Advances, 6(36), eabb2313. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb2313  


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Arnocky, S., Dupuis, D., & Stroink, M. L. (2012). Environmental concern and fertility intentions among Canadian university students. Population and Environment, 34(2), 279–292. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-011-0164-y

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Baillie, S., Dennings, K., & Feldstein, S. (2020). Endangered species condoms: a social marketing tool for starting conversations about population. The Journal of Population and Sustainability, 4(2), 31–44. Retrieved from: https://jpopsus.org/full_articles/endangered-species-condoms/


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Baisero, D., Visconti, P., Pacifici, M., Cimatti, M., & Rondinini, C. (2020). Projected Global Loss of Mammal Habitat Due to Land-Use and Climate Change. One Earth, 2(6), 578–585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.05.015 


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Bar-On, Y. M., Phillips, R., & Milo, R. (2018). The biomass distribution on Earth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(25), 6506–6511. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1711842115


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Barnes, M. D., Craigie, I. D., Harrison, L. B., Geldmann, J., Collen, B., Whitmee, S., … Woodley, S. (2016). Wildlife population trends in protected areas predicted by national socio-economic metrics and body size. Nature Communications, 7:12747. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12747


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Barrett, S., Dasgupta, A., Dasgupta, P., Neil Adger, W., Anderies, J., van den Bergh, J., … Wilen, J. (2020). Social dimensions of fertility behavior and consumption patterns in the Anthropocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(12),  6300–6307. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1909857117


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Berger, J., Wangchuk, T., Briceño, C., Vila, A., & Lambert, J. E. (2020). Disassembled Food Webs and Messy Projections: Modern Ungulate Communities in the Face of Unabating Human Population Growth. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8:128. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.00128  


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Bologna, M., & Aquino, G. (2020). Deforestation and world population sustainability: a quantitative analysis. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-63657-6


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Bongaarts, J., & O’Neill, B. C. (2018). Global warming policy: Is population left out in the cold? Science, 361(6403), 650–652. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat8680


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Bongaarts, J., & Sitruk-Ware, R. (2019). Climate change and contraception. BMJ Sexual and Reproductive Health, 45, 233–235. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsrh-2019-200399  


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Bradshaw, C. J. A., Giam, X., & Sodhi, N. S. (2010). Evaluating the relative environmental impact of countries. PLoS ONE, 5(5), e10440. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010440


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Bradshaw, C. J. A., & Di Minin, E. (2019). Socio-economic predictors of environmental performance among African nations. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45762-3 


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Brown, M. L., Donovan, T. M., Schwenk, W. S., & Theobald, D. M. (2014). Predicting impacts of future human population growth and development on occupancy rates of forest-dependent birds. Biological Conservation, 170, 311–320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2013.07.039 

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Campbell, M. (2007). Why the silence on population? Population and Environment, 28, 237–246. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-007-0054-5



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Campbell, M., Cleland, J., Ezeh, A., & Prata, N. (2007, March 16). Return of the population growth factor. Science, Vol. 315, 1501–1502. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1140057


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Campbell, M., Sahin-Hodoglugil, N., Potts, M., & Hall, W. (2006). Barriers to Fertility Regulation: A Review of the Literature. Studies in Family Planning, 37(2), 87. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1728-4465.2006.00088.x


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Cardillo, M., Purvis, A., Sechrest, W., Gittleman, J. L., Bielby, J., & Mace, G. M. (2004). Human population density and extinction risk in the world’s carnivores. PLoS Biology, 2(7). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020197 


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Casey, G., & Galor, O. (2017). Is faster economic growth compatible with reductions in carbon emissions? The role of diminished population growth. Environmental Research Letters, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/12/1/014003  


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Cavicchioli, R., Ripple, W. J., Timmis, K. N., Azam, F., Bakken, L. R., Baylis, M., … Webster, N. S. (2019). Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 17(9), 569–586. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-019-0222-5


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Ceballos, G., Ehrlich, P. R., Barnosky, A. D., García, A., Pringle, R. M., & Palmer, T. M. (2015). Accelerated modern human-induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction. Science Advances, 1(5), e1400253. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1400253 


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Ceballos, G., Ehrlich, P. R., & Dirzo, R. (2017). Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(30), E6089–E6096. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1704949114 


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Ceballos, G., Ehrlich, P. R., & Raven, P. H. (2020). Vertebrates on the brink as indicators of biological annihilation and the sixth mass extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201922686. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922686117


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Cincotta, R. P., Wisnewski, J., & Engelman, R. (2000). Human population in the biodiversity hotspots. Nature, 404(6781), 990–992. https://doi.org/10.1038/35010105


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Clinchy, M., Zanette, L. Y., Roberts, D., Suraci, J. P., Buesching, C. D., Newman, C., & Macdonald, D. W. (2016). Fear of the human “super predator” far exceeds the fear of large carnivores in a model mesocarnivore. Behavioral Ecology, 27(6), 1826–1832. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arw117 


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Coole, D. (2013). Too many bodies? The return and disavowal of the population question. Environmental Politics, 22(2), 195–215. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2012.730268


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Crist, E., Mora, C., & Engelman, R. (2017). The interaction of human population, food production, and biodiversity protection. Science, 356(6335), 260–264. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal2011 

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Dabelko, G. D. (2011). Population and Environment Connections The Role of U.S. Family Planning Assistance in U.S. Foreign Policy. Retrieved from www.cfr.org


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Dreyer, S. J., Kurz, T., Prosser, A. M. B., Abrash Walton, A., Dennings, K., McNeill, I., Saber, D., Swim, J. K. (2020). Towards a Psychology of the Food‐Energy‐Water Nexus: Costs and Opportunities. Journal of Social Issues, 76(1), 136–149. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12361


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Ehrlich, P. R., & Pringle, R. M. (2008). Where does biodiversity go from here? A grim business-as-usual forecast and a hopeful portfolio of partial solutions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105(SUPPL. 1), 11579–11586. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0801911105 


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Engelman, R., & Johnson, D. (2019). Removing Barriers to Family Planning, Empowering Sustainable Environmental Conservation: A Background Paper and Call for Action. Retrieved from https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e6b90bee358cd73ba608c4e/t/5ee62e12b3fb1839cc3730c3/1592143391181/Thriving+Together+Background+Paper.pdf


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Frischmann, C. J., Mehra, M., Allard, R., Bayuk, K., Gouveia, J. P., & Gorman, M. R. (2020). Drawdown’s “System of Solutions” Helps to Achieve the SDGs. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71067-9_100-1


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Gaffikin, L., & Engelman, R. (2018). Family planning as a contributor to environmental sustainability: Weighing the evidence. Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 30(6), 425–431. https://doi.org/10.1097/GCO.0000000000000489 


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Ganivet, E. (2019). Growth in human population and consumption both need to be addressed to reach an ecologically sustainable future. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 22, 4979–4998. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-019-00446-w


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Grossman, R. (2010). Birds and Bees for Biologists. Conservation Biology, 24(6), 1435–1436. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01593.x  


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Guillebaud, J. (2016). Voluntary family planning to minimise and mitigate climate change. BMJ, 353. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i2102

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Hardee, K., & Mutunga, C. (2010). Strengthening the link between climate change adaptation and national development plans: Lessons from the case of population in National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs). Insectes Sociaux, Vol. 57, 113–126. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-009-9208-3


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Harris, A., Mohan, V., Flanagan, M., & Hill, R. (2012). Integrating family planning service provision into community-based marine conservation. ORYX, 46(2), 179–186. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605311000925

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Imasiku, K., & Ntagwirumugara, E. (2020). An impact analysis of population growth on energy‐water‐food‐land nexus for ecological sustainable development in Rwanda. Food and Energy Security, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/fes3.185


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Jensen, J. T., & Creinin, M. D. (2020). Family planning, population growth, and the environment. Contraception, 101(3), 145–147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2020.02.003  


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KC, S., & Lutz, W. (2017). The human core of the shared socioeconomic pathways: Population scenarios by age, sex and level of education for all countries to 2100. Global Environmental Change, 42, 181–192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.06.004 


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Kopnina, H., & Washington, H. (2016). Discussing why population growth is still ignored or denied. Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment, 14(2), 133–143. https://doi.org/10.1080/10042857.2016.1149296


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Kopnina, H., Washington, H., Lowe, I., & Irvine, S. (2020). Scientists’ warning to humanity: strategic thinking on economic development, population, poverty and ecological sustainability in the Mediterranean and beyond. Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration, 5(1), 4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41207-019-0139-4

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Liu, D. H., & Raftery, A. E. (2020). How Do Education and Family Planning Accelerate Fertility Decline? Population and Development Review, padr.12347. https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12347


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Lutz, W. (2017). How population growth relates to climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(46), 12103–12105. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1717178114

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Marques, A., Martins, I. S., Kastner, T., Plutzar, C., Theurl, M. C., Eisenmenger, N., … Pereira, H. M. (2019). Increasing impacts of land use on biodiversity and carbon sequestration driven by population and economic growth. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3(4), 628–637. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0824-3 


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Mayhew, S. H., Newman, K., Johnson, D., Clark, E., Hammer, M., Mohan, V., & Ssali, S. (2019). New partnerships, new perspectives: The relevance of sexual and reproductive health and rights for sustainable development. Health Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2019.03.010


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McKee, J., Chambers, E., & Guseman, J. (2013). Human Population Density and Growth Validated as Extinction Threats to Mammal and Bird Species. Human Ecology, 41(5), 773–778. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-013-9586-8


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McKee, J. K., Sciulli, P. W., David Fooce, C., & Waite, T. A. (2004). Forecasting global biodiversity threats associated with human population growth. Biological Conservation, 115(1), 161–164. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0006-3207(03)00099-5


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McKinney, M. L. (2001). Role of human population size in raising bird and mammal threat among nations. Animal Conservation, 4(1), 45–57. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1367943001001056


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Mohan, V., & Shellard, T. (2014). Providing family planning services to remote communities in areas of high biodiversity through a Population-Health-Environment programme in Madagascar. Reproductive Health Matters, 22(43), 93–103. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0968-8080(14)43766-2


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Mora, C., & Sale, P. (2011). Ongoing global biodiversity loss and the need to move beyond protected areas: a review of the technical and practical shortcomings of protected areas on land and sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 434, 251–266. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps09214


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Muanda, M., Gahungu Ndongo, P., Taub, L. D., & Bertrand, J. T. (2016). Barriers to Modern Contraceptive Use in Kinshasa, DRC. PLoS ONE, 11(12), e0167560. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167560


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Murtaugh, P. A., & Schlax, M. G. (2009). Reproduction and the carbon legacies of individuals. Global Environmental Change, 19(1), 14–20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.10.007 

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Naidoo, R., & Adamowicz, W. L. (2001). Effects of economic prosperity on numbers of threatened species. Conservation Biology, 15(4), 1021–1029. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1523-1739.2001.0150041021.x


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Newman, K., Fisher, S., Mayhew, S., & Stephenson, J. (2014). Population, sexual and reproductive health, rights and sustainable development: forging a common agenda. Reproductive Health Matters, 22(43), 53–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0968-8080(14)43770-4


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O’Bryan, C. J., Allan, J. R., Holden, M., Sanderson, C., Venter, O., Di Marco, M., … Watson, J. E. M. (2020). Intense human pressure is widespread across terrestrial vertebrate ranges. Global Ecology and Conservation, 21, e00882. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00882


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O’Neill, B. C., Dalton, M., Fuchs, R., Jiang, L., Pachauri, S., & Zigova, K. (2010). Global demographic trends and future carbon emissions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(41), 17521–17526. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1004581107


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Potts, M. (2003). Two pills, two paths: A tale of gender bias. Endeavour, 27(3), 127–130. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0160-9327(03)00103-0


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Potts, M., Mahmood, A., & Graves, A. A. (2015). The pill is mightier than the sword. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 4(8), 507–510. https://doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2015.109

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Raven, P., & Wackernagel, M. (2020). Maintaining biodiversity will define our long-term success. Plant Diversity, 42(4), 211–220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2020.06.002


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Ripple, W. J., Wolf, C., Newsome, T. M., Barnard, P., & Moomaw, W. R. (2020). World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency. BioScience, 70(1), 8–12. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz088

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Scovronick, N., Budolfson, M. B., Dennig, F., Fleurbaey, M., Siebert, A., Socolow, R. H., … Wagner, F. (2017). Impact of population growth and population ethics on climate change mitigation policy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(46), 12338–12343. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1618308114


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Sellers, S. (2020). Gender and Climate Change in the United States: A Reading of Existing Research. Retrieved from www.wedo.org.


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Seto, K. C., Güneralp, B., & Hutyra, L. R. (2012). Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(40), 16083–16088. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1211658109


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Smith, J. A., Suraci, J. P., Clinchy, M., Crawford, A., Roberts, D., Zanette, L. Y., & Wilmers, C. C. (2017). Fear of the human ‘super predator’ reduces feeding time in large carnivores. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284(1857), 20170433. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0433


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Tal, A., & Kerret, D. (2020). Positive psychology as a strategy for promoting sustainable population policies. Heliyon, 6(4), e03696. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e03696


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Van Braeckel, D., Temmerman, M., Roelens, K., & Degomme, O. (2012, July 14). Slowing population growth for wellbeing and development. The Lancet, Vol. 380, pp. 84–85. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60902-7 


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Vollset, S. E., Goren, E., Yuan, C.-W., Cao, J., Smith, A. E., Hsiao, T., … Murray, C. J. L. (2020). Fertility, mortality, migration, and population scenarios for 195 countries and territories from 2017 to 2100: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study. The Lancet, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30677-2 


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Wake, D., & Vredenburg, V. (2008). Are we in the midst of the sixth mass extinction? A view from the world of amphibians. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, 105, 11466–11473.


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Weinzettel, J., Hertwich, E. G., Peters, G. P., Steen-Olsen, K., & Galli, A. (2013). Affluence drives the global displacement of land use. Global Environmental Change, 23(2), 433–438. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.12.010


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Williams, J. N. (2013). Humans and biodiversity: Population and demographic trends in the hotspots. Population and Environment, 34(4), 510–523. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-012-0175-3


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Wynes, S., & Nicholas, K. A. (2017). The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions. Environmental Research Letters, 12(7), 074024. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541 


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