Population and demography

This book examines the demographic development of Russia from the late Russian Empire to the contemporary Russian Federation, and includes discussions of marriage patterns, fertility, mortality, and inter-regional migration.

Even among the four Asian tigers, with their economic miracles during the past several decades that allowed them to join the ranks of the developed nations, South Korea is extraordinary.

Exploring notions of the person through a wide range of anthropological literature, Cathrine Degnen analyses how personhood is built, affirmed, and maintained during various life stages and via multiple cultural forms and practices.

Insurgent citizenships have arisen in cities around the world.

The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, a popular women's jazz band of the 1940s, has earned a reputation as the 'best all-women's swing band ever to perform.

This book analyses the most recent socio-territorial trends that are developing in the Spanish metropolitan space.

The stirring story of the economic and cultural struggles of the eastern European immigrants to the United States in the early 1900's, as witnessed through the lives and contributions of eleven different men.

The natural beauty of Austin, Texas, has always been central to the city's identity.

Why are poor Americans so patriotic?

Sao Paulo, by far the most populated state in Brazil, has an economy to rival that of Colombia or Venezuela.

How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality?

Remarkably, most conventional wisdom about the shifting balance of world power virtually ignores one of the most fundamental components of power: population.

This perceptive volume presents conceptual, theoretical, and empirical approaches to social policy analysis comparing China and Nordic countries in their treatment of the elderly.

This book studies the East Asian world-system and its dynastic cycles as they were influenced by climate and demographic change, diseases, the expansion of trade, and the rise of science and technology.

This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the experience of economic vulnerability among older adults.

This book discusses international migration in the newly independent states after the collapse of the Soviet Union, which involved millions of people.

This book builds on case studies in depopulating and shrinking areas in Northern Europe.

Demographic change is affecting societies and organizations alike.

This handbook provides a global study of the classification of mixed race and ethnicity at the state level, bringing together a diverse range of country case studies from around the world.

This book provides a comparison of the measurement in time and monetary units of unpaid domestic work in Colombia, Costa Rica, Uruguay, and the Hispanic ethnicity in the United States.

This edited collection provides a comprehensive overview of the major changes and transformations in Ukrainian society, from its independence in 1991, through to 2018.

This book investigates the most effective behavior change communication (BCC) strategies to reach socio-economically vulnerable mothers to promote early initiation of breastfeeding after birth in rural Niger.

This Palgrave Pivot presents experiments that reveal core dynamics of trade in a complex system.

This book examines the geography of partisan polarization, or the Reds and Blues, of the political landscape in the United States.

This book provides theoretical and applied material for estimating vital parts of demography and health issues including the healthy aging process along with calculating the healthy life years lost to disability.

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the structure, determinants and consequences of changes in sub-Saharan African families, thereby representing an Afrocentric description of the emerging trends.

The transition to twenty-first century post-industrial capitalism from the 'welfare' industrial capitalism of the twentieth century, has affected the ways in which class is lived in terms of relational inequality and the factors that structure identity.

This handbook provides a global perspective on contemporary demographic theories and studies of marriage and the family.

This book presents new insights into the consequences of the impending growth in and impact of the older segment of Latino aging adults across distinctive regions of the Americas.

This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing.

This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing.

This book examines consumer behavior using the "e;life course"e; paradigm, a multidisciplinary framework for studying people's lives, structural contexts, and social change.

Winner of the 2020 British Sociological Association Philip Abrams PrizeProviding a theory of moral practice for a contemporary sociological audience, Owen Abbott shows that morality is a relational practice achieved by people in their everyday lives.

This volume sheds new light on the refugees and forced migration at the Horn of Africa and East Africa.

This book offers a profoundly new examination of life strategies of migrants from regimes in crisis.

This book explores how population mobility varies among the countries of Asia.

This book provides a comprehensive, theory-based analysis of current issues in population economics.

This book looks at how Australia's migrant population composition is likely to change over coming decades.

This book provides new theories, applications and quantitative methods in demography, population studies and statistics.

This book demonstrates different statistical techniques for analyzing health-related data as well as providing new techniques for forecasting and/or projecting the incidence of diseases/disorders.

Since the days of Lev Pontryagin and his associates, the discipline of Optimal Control has enjoyed a tremendous upswing - not only in terms of its mathematical foundations, but also with regard to numerous fields of application, which have given rise to highly active research areas.

This volume brings together chapters about aging in many non-Western cultures, from Africa and Asia to South America, from American Indians to Australian and Hawaii Aboriginals.

This book examines issues of race and policing through the lens of representative bureaucracy theory.

This Handbook offers an array of internationally recognized experts' essays that provide a current and comprehensive examination of all dimensions of international population policies.

This book coaches marketing practitioners and students how to best satisfy the needs of the older consumer population.

This book responds to growing calls to conceptualise and analyse internal migration as a trajectory that unfolds over the life course of individuals rather than a series of discrete events.

This book describes the social and economic issues that emerge from mothers in labor markets.

This handbook provides a demographic examination of global obesity trends by bringing together the range of research conducted in this field by demographers, sociologists, epidemiologists, and other quantitatively and demographically oriented social scientists.

This edited collection provides a comprehensive examination of multidimensional poverty for a wide variety of economies and societies, with a general focus on multidimensional poverty in developed countries, where poverty is often overlooked.