Population and demography

With this book, Siegel, an internationally known demographer and gerontologist, has made a unique contribution to the fledgling fields of health demography, and the demography and epidemiology of aging.

The book explores interlinkages between women's employment and fertility at both a macro- and a micro-level in EU member states, Norway and Switzerland.

This brief represents a comprehensive review of methods for estimating characteristics of the foreign-born population in the United States, specifically oriented toward characteristics by legal status.

In provocative terms that push the envelope of technical, administrative, and legal capabilities, Swanson and Walashek propose a re-vamped US census based neither on the current system, self-enumeration, nor its predecessor, door-to-door canvassing.

Marriage and social inequality are closely interrelated.

This book provides a comprehensive portrait of the experience of poverty among Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants in the US.

Population ageing has been going on for many decades, but population shrinking is a rather new phenomenon.

Navigating Time and Space in Population Studies presents innovative approaches to long-standing questions about the diffusion of population and demographic behavior across space and over time.

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.

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

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

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

The "e;leave no one behind"e; principle espoused by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires measures of progress for different segments of the population.

This book is the first one in which basic demographic models are rigorously formulated by using modern age-structured population dynamics, extended to study real-world population problems.

This publication presents statistics and analysis on the status of women and men in the world, highlighting the current situation and changes over time.

The 2015 Revision will build on the previous revision by incorporating the findings of new population censuses and specialized demographic surveys, which have been published since the previous revision.

The 2015 Revision will build on the previous revision by incorporating the findings of new population censuses and specialized demographic surveys, which have been published since the previous revision.

In 15 years, the lifespan of the 2030 Agenda, the 10-year-old girl will be 25.

Population dynamics can contribute to unsustainable patterns of production and consumption, and as a consequence to water scarcity that consists of the most significant environmental challenge in the Arab region.

This publication provides country examples and best practices on measuring international labour mobility.

The main purpose of this publication is to provide the producers of population and housing censuses with guidance on the use of registers and administrative data for censuses, including operational, practical, technical and legal aspects.

This handbook presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of unprecedented substantive, theoretical, methodological, and statistical developments and insights, and an in-depth examination of trends and patterns, in adult mortality around the world.

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.

Over the past decades Europe has witnessed fundamental changes of its population dynamics and population structure.

Do adoptions provide children for families or families for children?

Over a half of adults in the US, Canada, Australia and numerous European countries are now overweight or obese, a proportion that has risen sharply in the past two decades.

Providing a unified and comprehensive treatment of the theory and techniques of sub-national population estimation, this much-needed publication does more than collate disparate source material.

The changes of populations are determined by fertility, mortality and migration.

This book discusses the biological, methodological and sociological issues that have caused men to be overlooked in demographic and sociological literature of fertility.

Although the human population growth rate of the world has been declining since peaking in the early 1960s, the populations of individual countries are changing at different rates.

"e;The heated Malthusian-Bosrupian debates still rage over consequences of high population growth, rapid urbanization, dense rural populations and young age structures in the face of drought, poverty, food insecurity, environmental degradation, climate change, instability and the global economic crisis.

This book presents the culmination of our collaborative research, going back over 15 years (Rogers & Little, 1994), and for one of us, even longer (Rogers, 1967, 1973).

Pathways through the life course have changed considerably in recent decades.

Modern nation states do not constitute closed entities.

In this 3rd edition of the definitive work on health demography, Pol and Thomas offer an updated view of the field and a current perspective on the applications of health demography to contemporary issues.

International migration is becoming an increasingly important element of contemporary demographic dynamics and yet, due to its high volatility, it remains the most unpredictable element of population change.

Most people value to have children still highly.

This book presents an innovative demographic toolkit known as the ProFamy extended cohort-component method for the projection of household structures and living arrangements with empirical applications to the United States, the largest developed country, and China, the largest developing country.

Examining key countries in every region of world, this handbook presents population profiles and analyses concerning racial/ethnic disparities and changing intergroup relations.

Ever since Hart's The Concept of Law, legal philosophers agree that the practice of law-applying officials is a fundamental aspect of law.

Inequality is one of the major problems of the contemporary world.

Religious diversity is now a social fact in most countries of the world.

Confounding all conventional wisdom, the fertility rate in the Islamic Republic of Iran fell from around 7.

Empirical in character, this book analyses the society-nature interaction of the Tsimane', a rural indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon.

Population growth slowed across the world in the last decades of the 20th century, changing substantially our view of the future.

This study is intended to design measures for ethnographic description including speech acts in an etic instrumental approach, oriented toward an analysis of the functions of communicative events in relation to the ongoing stream of behavior.