Population and demography

In this richly detailed and imaginatively researched study, Victoria Bynum investigates "e;unruly"e; women in central North Carolina before and during the Civil War.

Female infanticide is a social practice often closely associated with Chinese culture.

Drawing on nearly thirty years of prior analyses of growth, aging, and diversity in Texas populations and households, the authors of Changing Texas: Implications of Addressing or Ignoring the Texas Challenge examine key issues related to future Texas population change and its socioeconomic implications.

This book explores the challenges population decline presents for Europe's urban and rural areas.

This book describes the low fertility status in three developed Asian countries-Japan, South Korea, and Singapore-and outlines countermeasures for their declining birthrates.

The aging and migration megatrends and their impact on spatial - regional and local  -  labor market performance is the core theme of this book, and thus together define its scope and focus.

Ten years after his New York Times bestselling book Microtrends, Mark Penn identifies the next wave of trends reshaping the future of business, politics, and culture.

In recent years states across the world have boosted their legal and institutional capacity to deport noncitizens residing on their territory, including failed asylum seekers, "e;illegal"e; migrants, and convicted criminals.

Top researchers in the field introduce interdisciplinary perspectives on senescence, presenting new insights and cutting-edge research.

Als Wirtschaftskorrespondent der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung in London hat Gerald Hosp den Weg zum Brexit aus nächster Nähe verfolgt.

The most extensive urban demographic transitions ahead will take place in Africa and Asia.

Immigrants now comprise one-fourth of the 75 million children in the United States.

Mosk shows how population quality provides a key to understanding economic growth and social change in Japan.

This book uses complexity thinking to explore China's demography and population-driven geopolitics within and beyond mainland China.

First published in 1988, this reissue presents a comprehensive overview of contemporary developments and research into the geography of the Third World, at a time when economies and societies there were changing at a much more rapid rate than their counterparts in the developing world.

This volume is devoted to the geographical-or spatial-aspects of population research in regional science, spanning spatial demographic methods for population composition and migration to studies of internal and international migration to investigations of the role of population in related fields such as climate change and economic growth.

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.

This book is a collection of scientific studies regarding the biological, economic, historical, health, social, and other aspects of the populations of the western Balkans, a geographic area with distinct as well as diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, political systems, ethnic characteristics, development, and history.

This book provides an overview of multiple facets of ageing and its evolving dynamics in various Indian states.

This book studies patronage in South Asia to understand the vernacular workings of this political form.

By using field survey and World Bank investment project evaluation method, this book investigates the experience of slum rebuilding in Liaoning province, China.

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Despite rapidly decreasing rates of population growth caused by reduced fertility in the majority of world regions, demographers are predicting that the world's population will still double by the year 2050.

Volume 3 relates the demography of health behavior to developmental and diversity issues.

This book describes how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the way of work, the division of household labor, and family formation in Japan.

This book, comprised of entirely original research, collects data on the socioeconomic situation of China's 56 ethnic groups.

This book provides an overview of youth labour force and workforce participation in India and explores the dynamics of changing youth labour market in India.

Shiksa Speaks: A White, Non-Jew's Understanding of the Cuban Jewish Diaspora and Its Legacy focuses on Cuban Jews, or Jewbans, whose family emigrated from Eastern Europe to the island in the 1920s then again to the US after the 1959 revolution in which Fidel Castro took power.

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

The Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics is an authoritative volume on an established subject in political science and the academy more generally: urban politics and urban studies.

This book provides fresh perspectives on the uses of ancient demography for social, economic and political historians.

The aging of the population of the United States is occurring at a time of major economic and social changes.

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.

Whereas the history of demography as a social science has been amply explored, that of the construction of the concept of population has been neglected.

À l’heure de la réunification historique du continent et de la réforme des institutions européennes, cet ouvrage propose un état des événements, tendances et évolutions de la société civile européenne.

Choiseul Island Social Structure offers a comprehensive exploration of the social organization and cultural practices of Choiseul Island in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, primarily focusing on the Yarisi area.

Die Steuerung der Patientenbehandlung in der Palliativversorgung erfolgt durch Assessmentinstrumente.

Despite the common understanding of the importance of desert development in the contemporary world, there are relatively few books published to date on this sub- ject.

For a few centuries, the science of demography has been in effect.

In the spring of 1861, Richmond, Virginia, suddenly became the capital city, military headquarters, and industrial engine of a new nation fighting for its existence.

The past few decades have seen a revolutionary increase in interest in the economic role of education and training at the societal, business, and individual levels.

State Profiles 2019: The Population and Economy of Each U.