Editor’s Introduction: Unforeseen Consequences of Policy Decisions
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It is almost a truism that populations affect their environment, and that environments constrain populations. Yet as we work to elucidate the actual workings of these interactions, we are often surprised. This issue of Population and Environment focuses on unforeseen or unintended consequences of policy. Often, centralized government policies are specifically directed at affecting people’s reproductive lives, or their residences. But even policies not intentionally aimed at population issues such as fertility or migration can nonetheless affect people’s lives: their fertility, their mortality, and their movements. Barbara A. Anderson offers a useful typology of unintended population consequences of policies. She suggests they occur three ways: (1) a policy overshoots its original goal; (2) two or more policies conflict, so that implementation of one policy inhibits implementation of another; (3) negative consequences of a policy are unforeseen, are anticipated but judged unlikely to be severe, or are considered less important than the positive aims of the policy. She discusses diverse examples from Singapore, South Africa, Italy, the United States, and the former Soviet Union. Catherine O’Connor offers a new perspective on Indonesian forestry decisions, finding that they have significant unexpected effects. In addition
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Unintended Population Consequences of Policies
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