Fourteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

Debate over the planet’s environmental changes have become increasingly interdisciplinary. An example of this is that in 2007 the International Panel for Climate Change published a report highlighting the role of human activities as central to these changes. Thus, environmental changes and populations are doubly influenced, that is, human activities, such as the way of production and exploitation of nature as a resource supplier for energy inputs and agriculture, for example, cause the emission of gases of the effect the resulting imbalances caused by this process. On the other hand, environmental changes directly affect the way of life of different societies. Thus, this abstract is part of a broader work in which we use the concept of Anthropocene (very widespread in the natural sciences) in a demographic perstective to understand how human activities affect the environment, and how this structure builds vulnerabilities in populations that are affected by environmental changes.