Ronald Rindfuss
Professor of Sociology,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Land Use, Competition and Migration"
Thursday, October 22, 2001
Jefferson 218
Dr. Rindfuss is the former director of the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and former president of the Population Association of America. He is author and editor of four books and over 100 research contributions dealing with demography, including First Births in America: Changing in the Timing of Parenthood and Changing Numbers, Changing Needs: American Indian Demography and Public Health. He has been a leader in the interdisciplinary field of the human dimensions of global change, promoting the usefulness of remote sensing and a GIS approach to social science problem solving as attested in his recent co-edited volume, People and Pixels.