Population and demography

An ambitious global history that fundamentally alters our understanding of MalthusThe New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be.

An exploration of how key provinces in China shape urban and regional development The rise of major metropolises across China since the 1990s has been a double-edged sword: although big cities function as economic powerhouses, concentrated urban growth can worsen regional inequalities, governance challenges, and social tensions.

This monograph examines the influence of ideational and socio-economic factors on Japanese marriage and fertility behaviour.

Look around you and think for a minute: Is America too crowded?

This book delves into the experiences of Ukrainian women forced to leave their country in search of refuge following the devastating escalation of Russian war in February 2022, exploring the diverse forms of capital they bring with them and develop on the way.

The Great Social Laboratory charts the development of the human sciences-anthropology, human geography, and demography-in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt.

As is the case in Western industrialized countries, Japan is seeing a rise in the number of unmarried couples, later marriages, and divorces.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Samurai mit "Die große Zeit der Samurai - Der lange Weg des Kriegers vom alten Japan in die Moderne".

Beyond the Voting Rights Act movingly recounts over 30 years of contemporary voting rights battles in the United States from the 1980s to the present day.

This book focuses on the strict orthodox Jewish (Haredi) community, which comprises many sects whose communal identity plays a central role in everyday life and spatial organization.

This edited collection explores the links between human capital (both in the form of health and in the form of education), demographic change, and economic growth.

This volume explores one of the most complex labour landscapes of India - the urban daily labour market.

Latino City explores the transformation of Lawrence, Massachusetts, into New England's first Latino-majority city.

Much has been written about the profound impact the post-World War II baby boomers had on American religion.

Attendu et redouté, le dévoilement de la carte scolaire est un moment clé des relations entre ministère de l’Éducation nationale, élus locaux et populations, notamment en milieu rural.

Infrastructures are fundamental means through which societies create spaces, but little is known about the precise ways in which this occurs.

This book provides state-of-the-art information on ambient assisted living (AAL), and focuses on technologies, services, living spaces, policies, and interventions to promote health, improve quality of life, and active aging.

This book discusses the issues of inequality and marginalization in India.

L'auteur appelle les Africains a se lever, a exploiter leurs talents et a s'unir afin d'elaborer un futur pour l'humanite, en alliant technologie, ecologie, solidarite, respect des cultures et croissance economique.

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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.

This book presents empirical observations and theoretical thinking of the fundamental changes in the Chinese economy.

This book contains a systematic study of ecological communities of two or three interacting populations.

This book describes and analyzes the demographic changes that took place in Taiwan between 1945 and 1995.

This book studies healthy aging in China based on analyses of the datasets of eight waves of longitudinal survey in 1998-2018 with worldwide largest sample of oldest-old.

This book is the first work to comprehensively investigate the enclaves of non-Japanese residents in Japan.

This book presents the fundamentals of evolutionary game theory and applies them to the analysis of epidemics, which is of paramount importance in the aftermath of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.

This book celebrates the life and work of Peter Nijkamp, whose research provides a strong focus on regional science.

This edited volume contains sixteen chapters by eminent scholars on one of the largest migration corridors in the world i.

This book addresses central issues related to population and sustainable development in India, the second most populous country in the world.

Ageing in Asia contains a selection of leading social systems and programs, with interesting case-studies offering innovative and useful lessons.

Youth are, by definition, the future.

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.

This book provides insightful sociological analyses of Japanese demography and families, paying attention not only to national average data, but also to regional variations and community level analyses.

This book investigates the current level and trend of poverty in the Muslim World, including selected countries in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, East Asia, the Pacific and South America.

This book investigates domestic migration and migration intentions in China from the individual, city, and provincial levels.

This book provides an insightful sociological study of the declining Japanese population, using statistical analysis to establish the significance of municipal power using demographic data on national, regional, prefectural and municipal levels.

This book studies healthy aging in China based on analyses of the datasets of eight waves of longitudinal survey in 1998-2018 with worldwide largest sample of oldest-old.

This edited book empirically discusses stratification in contemporary Japanese society.

This book offers a comprehensive study of the complexities of newborn survival in resource-poor regions, using the state of Bihar (India) as a case study.

This book discusses the issues of inequality and marginalization in India.

This book investigates domestic migration and migration intentions in China from the individual, city, and provincial levels.

From both theoretical and practical perspectives, this book systematically expounds the important theories, key measures and major achievements in the field of poverty alleviation in China, and sums up the important experience of poverty alleviation, it answers the significant question why China has been able to lift itself out of poverty and build a moderately prosperous society in an all round way.

This book focuses on developing the use of ethnographic research for rehabilitation practitioners by recognizing its value methodologically and empirically in the field of rehabilitation.

This book Food in a Planetary Emergency is a timely overview of the current food systems and the required transformations to respond to the challenges of climate change, population pressures, biodiversity loss and use of natural resources, such as soils, water and phosphorus.

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

This book presents the future development of Malaysia.

This book examines the increasing evidence of international retirement migration (IRM) to countries of the Global South.

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.