Population and demography

This handbook introduces readers to the concept of elderly entrepreneurship, and analyzes key issues concerning individuals and institutions.

This book demonstrates that there are wide-ranging potential challenges in addressing issues associated with ageing populations in both developed and developing countries of the region.

This project offers a comprehensive look at aging policies across East Asia, where a demographic dividend fuelled rapid growth and is now aging into a lower-speed economy.

This book discusses gerontological issues and challenges impacting the quality of life of older people in India.

This book provides an analysis of theoretical and empirical researches on the effects of remittances and brain drain on the development of less developed countries (LDCs).

How can we be happier, healthier and more satisfied in life?

This book discusses what is often called the "e;Great Leap Famine"e;, which occurred in China during the years from 1959 to 1961.

This book addresses major population and development issues: fertility and reproductive health, migrations, gender, education, poverty and inequalities.

The book provides an interesting analysis of the time-use data to examine the extent to which active ageing is occurring in India.

World Population: Past, Present, & Future uses a multidisciplinary approach to investigate in depth on important aspects of the evolution of world population not well addressed previously.

Austin, Texas, is often depicted as one of the past half century's great urban successstories-a place that has grown enormously through "e;creative class"e; strategies emphasizing tolerance and environmental consciousness.

This book is the first social history of the census from its origins to the present and has become the standard history of the population census in the United States.

Japan's Demographic Revival shifts discussions about employing immigration as the 'best' or 'sole' solution to assuaging Japan's demographic quagmire to a more systematic approach that identifies structural, organizational and cultural impediments that contribute to Japan's (and other countries') declining demographic situations.

Seit Jahrzehnten befindet sich die Landwirtschaft in einem Strukturwandel, der mit zahlreichen Entwicklungen einhergeht.

This eight-volume encyclopedia brings together a comprehensive collection of work highlighting established research and emerging science in all relevant disciplines in gerontology and population aging.

In diesem Buch wird versucht, die Theorieansätze der Technikgenerationen mit jenen der sozialen Ungleichheit auf eine Weise zu verbinden, dass Rückschlüsse auf die Technikakzeptanz, die Technikkompetenz und die Techniknutzung im höheren Lebensalter abgeleitet werden können.

This book presents the future development of Malaysia.

This handbook presents a timely and comprehensive overview of theory, data, methods and research findings that connect human population dynamics and environmental context.

Das vorliegende Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie Menschen ihre Renteneintrittsentscheidung treffen.

This book comprehensively reviews the advancements in biotechnological applications for the enhanced production and conservations of buffalo (Bubalus bubalis).

The book introduces the concept of encounter CONNECT-ED from the practice of working with the elderly to impart media skills and presents empirical data on the social participation and quality of life of the participants.

This book documents, verifies and brings to life the issues and debates that are created around the aging society.

This handbook integrates and discusses a growing evidence base concerning individual development across middle and late adulthood.

Urban expansion beyond the city's administrative boundaries has altered villages to a great extent.

Population Geography: Social Justice for a Sustainable World surveys the ways in which geographic approaches may be applied to population issues, exploring how human populations are embedded in natural and social environments.

Population Geography: Social Justice for a Sustainable World surveys the ways in which geographic approaches may be applied to population issues, exploring how human populations are embedded in natural and social environments.

An authoritative overview of the continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day.

This new, fully updated edition of Global Migration provides students with a thorough and grounded understanding of multiple dimensions of migration, including labour markets, citizenship, border control, integration and identity.

This book reflects the reality of most taxpayers.

This new, fully updated edition of Global Migration provides students with a thorough and grounded understanding of multiple dimensions of migration, including labour markets, citizenship, border control, integration and identity.

This book reflects the reality of most taxpayers.

This book provides a comprehensive and updated review of the concepts, models, and interventions related to the process of adjustment to life course transitions.

The political upheaval in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala had a devastating human toll at the end of the twentieth century.

Called "e;the most unusually voyeuristic anthropology study ever conducted"e; by the New York Times, this groundbreaking book provides an unprecedented glimpse into modern-day American families.

Scottish Migration since 1750: Reasons and Results begins a fresh chapter in migration studies using new methods and unpublished sources to map the course of Scottish migration between 1750 and 1990.

En Afrique, la région du Sahel fait l’objet d’une attention particulière de la part de la communauté internationale en raison de son riche potentiel contrasté par la fragilité et l’aggravation de la situation sécuritaire, dans un contexte où la forte dynamique démographique est marquée par une part importante de la population jeune.

Figuring the Population Bomb traces the genealogy of twentieth-century demographic facts that created a mathematical panic about a looming population explosion.

The world's population has grown by five billion people over the past century, an astounding 300 percent increase.

An assessment of how Israel’s extraordinary population growth undermines the country’s environment, social equity, and quality of life—and what must be done about it During the past sixty-eight years, Israel’s population has increased from one to eight million people.

This book focuses on two critical global issues—rapid population growth and a human-induced climate change.

What new theories, evidence, explanations, and policies have shaped our studies of income distribution in the 21st century?

Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging synthesizes the economic literature on aging and the subjects associated with it, including social insurance and healthcare costs, both of which are of interest to policymakers and academics.

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness.

Does a young person commit suicide every thirteen minutes in the United States?

A history of how Chinese officials used statistics to define a new society in the early years of the People's Republic of China In 1949, at the end of a long period of wars, one of the biggest challenges facing leaders of the new People's Republic of China was how much they did not know.

We live in a world of big data: the amount of information collected on human behavior each day is staggering, and exponentially greater than at any time in the past.