LGBTQIA+ organisations

New Family Social

UK network for LGBT adoptive and foster families

PINK PARENTS

About homosexual parenting, attitude of the society towards same-sex parents and common concerns of gay and lesbian parents in regard to the effect of their sexual orientation on their children.

ACADEMICS & RESEARCHERS

Kimberly Nicholas

http://www.kimnicholas.com
An Associate Professor of Sustainability Science at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) in Lund, Sweden. Her research focuses on advancing scientific and policy solutions for global sustainability, particularly focused on food systems under climate change, and understanding interactions between human and environmental systems, including ecosystem services.

Chris Rapley

…currently Professor of Climate Science in the Department of Earth Sciences, University College London
2007 article in Guardian about his views on population & the environment
He and playwright Duncan Macmillan were commissioned by the Royal Court Theatre to write a play on climate change, 2071

Jonathon Porritt

Environmentalist and author of The World We Made, founder director of Forum for the Future; author of overpopulation article in the Independent

Baroness Dr Jenny Tonge

…Joint Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health: has previously argued “Disaster relief is an essential response to humanitarian crises. However, prevention of future disasters is also crucially important. Unless we address population growth and reproductive health, the children we save now will be bringing their families to the same feeding centre in 20 years time”.

JUDITH STEPHENSON & SUSANNAH MAYHEW

Judith Stephenson at UCL and Susannah Mayhew at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine – authors of the paper “Population dynamics and climate change: what are the links?”

ENVIRONMENTAL & POPULATION GROWTH ORGANISATIONS

Population Matters

Article in the Independent by their chief executive Simon Ross

British Society for Population Studies

Based at LSE, its main objectives are to further the scientific study of biological, economic, historical, medical, social and other disciplines connected with human populations and to contribute to the public awareness of them.