TABLE OF CONTENTS
Overview of the Collection
Scope and Contents
Restrictions
Related Material
Administrative Information
Detailed Description of the Collection
- Series I: Committee on Population, Resources, and Environment, 1983-1989
- Series II: PREP Subcommittees, 1984-1989
- Series III: PREP Seminars and Symposia, 1974-1989
- Series IV: Miscellaneous, 1979-1989
Overview of the Collection
Repository: American Association for the Advancement of Science Archives, 1200 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20005, email
Creator: AAAS Office of International Science
Title: AAAS Population, Resources, and Environment Program Records
Dates: 1982-1989
Extent: 11.25 linear feet (9 boxes)
Abstract: In 1984, AAAS convened an advisory group to evaluate the interest and necessity of creating a project to investigate the interactions between population, resources, and the environment. The initiative was prompted by the prospect of an increase in the world's population from 4.8 billion in 1984 to between 7.7 and 11.6 billion by 2050. The advisory group recommended creation of a Committee on Population, Resources and Environment. Chaired by Roger Levien, the committee provided guidance for AAAS Population, Resources, and Environment Program (PREP) activities. PREP addressed the problems and opportunities that arise through interactions among population, resources, and environment, while stressing interdisciplinary approaches, international cooperation, and the application of scholarship to public policy issues. Committee members were divided into five subcommittees to address the following substantive areas: intellectual history; inter-dependency of food and population; technological change; the demand side of population; and transnational impacts. PREP sponsored a variety of meetings, technical workshops, policy briefings, international symposia, and general sessions at the AAAS Annual Meeting. It also commissioned and conducted research on the subcommittee subject areas. The major products of the program were two book-length manuscripts published in 1989: a volume on the intellectual history of research on population, resource, and environment relationship issues, and a report on food, resources, and population inter-dependencies. The program disbanded in 1989 upon the completion of its major projects.
Identification:
Language: The records are in English.
Scope and Contents
Records, arranged in four series, include conference and workshop materials, commissioned and contributed papers, draft manuscripts, committee meeting minutes, and correspondence, as well as background articles, reports, and newspaper clippings on several Population, Resources and the Environment topics.
Series I includes the initial Advisory Group materials that pertain to the origin of the program; planning reports and funding options; numerous meetings discussing the establishing policies and goals; correspondence between members of the executive committee; proposals and drafts; PREP meeting agendas, minutes, correspondence, and other materials ranging from January 1985 to December 1989; correspondence from 1983 to 1986 as well as correspondence between major participants and AAAS administration.
Series II includes information on PREP subcommittees on the following topics: Subcommittee on Food, which included three study groups titled: International Dependence of Food and Population; Agroforestry; Soils and Water; Technological Change; Transnationalism; Intellectual History; Population - the Demand Side; and Consensus.
Series III includes records of the AAAS Annual Meetings. During the annual meetings, there are numerous symposia dealing with special topics and presentations by major players in the specific fields. The records of the symposia include working and final drafts, correspondence, planning materials, meeting agendas and other background materials. The series contains the files from the 1985 to 1988. The topics pertain to population and food/hunger issues. This series also includes congressional seminars on population, resources and the environments from 1985 to1987. There are records that pertain to the Bangalore, India Seminar held in 1986, the background, working and final drafts, correspondence, subcommittees, and manuscripts. Finally, the series contain other Office of International Science and PREP working group materials, as well as other miscellaneous materials.
Series IV contains miscellaneous correspondence, background material, and other records. It includes the chronological correspondence files of PREP program director Charles V. Kidd and AAAS staff officer Amy Auerbacher Wilson for 1987, chronicling the daily activities of the program. There is also one folder of correspondence regarding requested books. The series also includes background materials presumably collected by program staff during PREP research, dated mainly from the early 1980s. These publications and other records document the U.S. Senate Global Foresight Roundtables (1981-1985), the Conference on Population (1984), and other meetings and conferences, as well as the related ongoing work of organizations such as the United Nations. Finally, the series contains miscellaneous PREP records.
Arrangement
Records are arranged in four series. Series I: Committee on PREP; Series II: PREP Subcommittees; Series III: PREP Seminars and Symposia; Series IV: Miscellaneous.
Restrictions
Restrictions on Access
Collection open to the public for research.
Related Material
Records are related to other material from AAAS Office of International Science.
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
AAAS Population, Resources, and Environment Program Records. AAAS Archives, Washington, DC.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Series I: Committee on Population, Resources, and Environment, 1983-1989
[BOX 1]
Advisory Group on Population, Resources and Environment Program (PREP)
Planning Report, Mellon Foundation, 1983
meeting, 17 Oct. 1983
meeting, 17 Nov. 1983
meeting, 16 Jan. 1984
meeting, 23 March 1984
correspondence and memos
Briggs, Rodney, 1984
Levien, Roger, 1984
Matthews, Jessica T., 1984
Sills, David, 1984
Stroup, Richard 1984
PREP Proposals
drafts, Dec. 1983-March 1984
drafts, May-July 1984
Final, Nov. 1984
Mellon Foundation, 1984
comments and notes, Jan-Dec. 1984
PREP
Descriptions and internal planning, 1984
Newsletter list, 1984
Issues, 1984
Institutions, 1984
Proposals, Funding and budget, 1984-1985
Budget, 1985
Funding strategy, 1986-1988
Division of labor, 1985
Consension draft statements, 1985
Consension correspondence, 1985
Committee annual reports, 1984-1989
Narrowing Differences in African Food Production, September 1985
[BOX 2]
PREP Meetings: Wye, MD, 18-20 Jan. 1985
Correspondence, 18-20 Jan. 1985
Agenda, 18-20 Jan. 1985
Issues paper by Charles Kidd, 18-20 Jan. 1985
Notes, 18-20 Jan. 1985
Minutes, 18-20 Jan 1985
PREP Meetings: Leesburg VA, 28-29 Sept. 1985
Agenda
Correspondence
Notes
Minutes
PREP Meetings: Wye, MD, 11-13 April 1986
Agenda
Correspondence
Notes
Minutes
PREP Meetings: Washington, DC
Agenda, 22-23 Nov. 1986 (2 Folders)
Correspondence, 22-23 Nov. 1986
Minutes, 22-23 Nov. 1986
Agenda, 30-31 May 1987
Minutes, 30-31 May 1987
Agenda, 12-13 Dec. 1987 (2 Folders)
Minutes, 12-13 Dec. 1987
Agenda, 17 Sept. 1988 (2 Folders)
Correspondence, 17 Sept. 1988
Minutes, 17 Sept. 1988
Agenda, 15 April 1989
Minutes, 15 April 1989
Agenda, 16 Dec. 1989
Minutes, 16 Dec. 1989
[BOX 3]
PREP correspondence
1983-1984
1984 (2 Folders)
1985
with staff, 1985-1986
1986
PREP memos, Kidd, Charles, 1984-1985
PREP memos, Wilson, Amy, 1986-1987
PREP Vitas
PREP correspondence
Boulding, Elise, 1986-1987
Brown, William,1989
Caldwell, Lynton, international issues, 1985
Campos-Lopez, Enrique,1985
Committee members, 1986-1987
Committee re new members, 1984-1986
Demeny, Paul,1984-1987
Demeny, Paul, papers, 1986-1988
Forman, Richard, 1987-1988
Harrison, Anna J., 1985
Johns, Lionel, 1984-1988
Lesourne, Jacques,1984-1987
MacKay, Buddy,1985-1987
Meadows, Donella, 1984-1988
Myers, Norman, 1985
Pimental, David, 1985-1987
with Reining, June 1984-Juen 1986
Ridker, Ronald G., 1984-1988
Sai, Fred T.,1985-1989
Other and Salati, Eneas, 1987-1989
Schultz, Paul,1985 & 1989
Singer, S. Fred,1984-1985
Teitelbaum, Michael S., 1987
Zeidenstein, George, 1985
with NAS, 1984-1987
Series II: PREP Subcommittees, 1984-1989
[BOX 4]
Subcommittee on Intellectual History: Correspondence
Correspondence
Authors, 1986-1989
NEH funding proposal, 1986-1987
Publication of manuscript, 1987-1989
Teitelman, Michael, 1984-1985
Teitelman, Michael,1986-1988
Conference, 1986-1987
Participants, 1987
Related material
Subcommittee on Population - The Demand Side
Correspondence: Chair, 1986-1987
Correspondence: Other, 1987
Project description, 1986-1987
Related material
Subcommittee on Food
Agroforestry Study Group correspondence with David Pimentel (chair), 1985-1988
Background material, 1984-1987
Correspondence with Donella Meadows (chair), 1985-1988
Formation of Study Groups, 1985
Interdependency of Food and Population Study Group correspondence, 1985-1989
Manuscripts, 1986-1989
Soil and Water Study Group-general correspondence, 1985-1987
Soil and Water Study Group-correspondence with Elise Boulding (chair), 1986-1989
[BOX 5]
Subcommittee on Technological Change
Charter and early planning, 1985
Correspondence
general and notes
William Clark/IIASA, 1983-1984
William Clark/IIASA, 1985
William Clark/IIASA, 1986-1987
Lionel (Skip) Johns, 1985-1987
Harvey Brooks Personal file
Planning meeting, July 1987
Sustainability Project
Collaboration with the World Bank, 1987-1989
draft proposals, 1988
general correspondence, 1987-1989
Harvey Brooks correspondence
April-Sept. 1986
Oct. 1986-March 1987
April-Nov. 1987
Dec. 1987-July 1988
Aug.1988 - Dec. 1989
Comments on proposals, 1987
paper by Harvey Brooks, 1988-1989
paper by Judith Kildow, 1988
paper by Gordon Orians, 1987
Background Materials, 1985-1989
Subcommittee on Transnationalism
Correspondence-general files, 1988-1989
Correspondence-Nazli Choucri (chair), 1989 (5 Folders)
drafts, 1989 (3 Folders)
funding and proposals, 1986-1988
Series III: PREP Seminars and Symposia, 1974-1989
[BOX 6]
AAAS Annual Meeting
Los Angeles -Executive Committee Minutes, agendas and other, 1985
Los Angeles - Symposium-Population Growth, Resource Use and Environmental Change, 1985
Los Angeles - Symposium-Science and Technology Policies for Development, 1985
Philadelphia - Symposium-Shifts in Thinking About Population - Environmental Relationships, 1986
general files
Chicago - Symposium, 1987
Internationalization of Social Science: Views from Abroad
Agroforestry
Genetic Diversity and Food Security
Global Competition in Agriculture
Population Growth and Well Being
Feeding the People Correspondence
Feeding the People drafts and manuscripts
Boston, 1988
Symposium - The Future of Hunger
Symposium - Scientific Disagreement with World Hunger
Symposium - The Paradox of World Hunger - Grain Surpluses
general files
OIS PREP Annual Meeting I
OIS PREP Annual Meeting II
Congressional Seminar
on Population, Resources and the Environment, 1985
Planning #1 - up to Dec. 1985
Planning #2 - as up Jan. 1986
Working files, 1985-1987
#1, Feb. 1986
#2, Feb. 1986
Africa Hearings
Congressional Seminar #2: Migration, April 1986
OIS PREP Congressional Seminars
OIS PREP Science Attaches Seminars
[BOX 7]
"Why has the green revolution been a success in India," M.V. Rao, Bangalore Seminar, 1986
M.V. Rao and Charles Kidd
Correspondence, 1987
Green Revolution manuscript, 4 Jan. 1987
Master and comments, 10 Nov. 1987
Submission to Science, 1988
Green Revolution: Background articles
1974-1984
1985-1986
1987
1988
OIS PREP Bangalore Meeting Follow Up
Bangalore
Science and Technology Initiative
Citation Index
Background Documents
Background Articles
Press clippings
NSF Indian Science review
Funding
Final Report, Indo/US Meeting, 30 Dec. 1986
US Papers
Archana Sharma, 1984-1989
OIS PREP
Data Project (Demeny)
Uncertainty Project
International Activities, 1987
Departmental Plan, 1988
PREP
References, 1985
Acquisitions list, 1984
Inventory/Literature/Bibliography/Memos, 1985
Electronic communication
Series IV: Miscellaneous, 1979-1989
[BOX 8]
AAW chron
Jan. 1987
Feb. 1987
misc. chron, CVK PREP only chron, March 1987
PREP misc. chron, April 1987
PREP, etc., May 1987
PREP chron, June 1987
Aug. 1987
Sept. 1987
Oct. 1987
Nov. 1987
Dec. 1987
CVK chron
Jan. 1987
German, non-PREP, March 1987
German, non-PREP, April 1987
German Seminar, etc., May 1987
June 1987
July 1987
Aug. 1987
Sept. 1987
Nov. 1987
Dec. 1987
PREP books requested, 1987
[BOX 9]
AAAS: Workshop "Towards Peaceful Change: Science, Technology and International Security, November 1980
Beyond Famine: Population and Technology Assistance,
U.S. Senate Global Foresight Roundtable
Global Resources, Population and Environment Headings, 1981-1983
1982
1983
1984-1985
Background
"A Day for Agribusiness" Meeting, April 26 1984
PREP Related Meetings, 1984
PREP "Demand", 1984
PREP Documents for Meeting of Preparatory for the UN International Conference on Population, 1984
PREP Environmental Fund
OIS PREP World Wildlife Congress, 1987
OIS PREP Global Change Forum, 1989
"Rapid Food production growth in selected developing countries 1961 - 1976" Background Materials, 1979
"Guidelines for AIDS regional activities in Africa", 1980
U.N. activities pertaining to people, resources, environment and development, 1980
Public understanding of population issues - clippings, 1983-1985
PREP Background Materials Related Organizations and projects, 1983-1984
PREP Background Materials, 1983-1984 (4 Folders)
PREP Background Materials, 1984
PREP Background
PREP Background Materials Articles and Papers
Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT)