Population and demography

This volume represents one of the first efforts to harvest the rapidly emerging scholarship in the field of American rural history.

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The International Handbook on the Demography of Sexuality is the first book to specifically address the study of sexuality from a demographic perspective.

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

This study aims at analyzing the resilience of Indonesia from two aspects: one is was natural disaster and the other is environmental protection.

This book offers innovative insights on South-South human mobility.

The momentous influx of Mexican undocumented workers into the United States over the last decades has spurred new ways of thinking about immigration.

This book presents an in-depth examination of China's population control policies from their establishment to the present and explores the developing implications of these policies on the Chinese labour market.

This book focuses on the future of the global population and proposes revising Malthus' Law.

Many historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change.

NGOs headquartered in the North have been, for some time, prominent actors in attempts to address the poverty, lack of political representation, and labor exploitation that disproportionally affect women from the global South.

This edited book empirically discusses stratification in contemporary Japanese society.

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

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of rural-urban migration in Vietnam.

This book takes a fresh look at the work, thoughts, and life of 1956 Nobel Prize winner William B.

This volume brings together a range of contributions that provide contemporary regional science perspectives on population change and its socio-economic consequences in the Asia-Pacific region.

In this interdisciplinary book, experts from philosophy, medicine, law, psychology, economics, and social sciences address questions and develop solutions for a well-designed society of long life.

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.

Situations involving conflict and forced migration have become increasingly commonplace in today's world.

Ageing populations pose some of the foremost global challenges of this century.

Like the original two-volume work, this work attempts to present a systematic and comprehensive exposition, with illustrations, of the methods used by technicians and research workers in dealing with demographic data.

As a contribution to the search for suitable and sustainable solutions to finance rising medical care expenditures, the book proposes a typology of healthcare financing and insurance schemes, based on the dimensions of basic vs.

This book is a follow up to Social Capital and Health (2008), edited by Kawachi, Subramanian & Kim.

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

This book highlights new and innovative approaches to archaeological research using computational modeling while focusing on the Neolithic transition around the world.

This book captures the hidden labour of migrant nightworkers in 24/7 London.

In The Writing of Where, Charles Lesh examines how graffiti writers in Boston remake various spaces within and across the city.

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

This book provides a solid empirical portrait based on the complexities of demographic components of population change.

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 discusses the links between population growth, migration and the transport system in China.

Das vorliegende Buch erklärt mithilfe des Konzepts der emotionalen Qualität einer Politikidee, weshalb die deutsche Bevölkerung die Rente mit 67 stärker ablehnte als andere, ebenso einschneidende Rentenreformen.

The aim of Diversity in Family Formation is to examine changes in the start of the family formation process.

The overarching objective of this book is to summarize, extend, and update previous research on educational differences in family behavior in Japan.

The North Carolina Gazetteer first appeared to wide acclaim in 1968 and has remained an essential reference for anyone with a serious interest in the Tar Heel State, from historians to journalists, from creative writers to urban planners, from backpackers to armchair travelers.

When Zandria Robinson returned home to interview African Americans in Memphis, she was often greeted with some version of the caution "e;I hope you know this ain't Chicago.

Designing Public Space for an Ageing Population examines the barriers older people face by being a pedestrian in the built environment and demonstrates how to overcome them.

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.

In this book new mathematical and statistical techniques that permit more sophisticated analysis are refined and applied to questions of current concern in order to understand the forces that are driving the recent dramatic changes in family patterns.

Between 1965 and 1985, the Western world and the United States in particular experienced a staggering amount of social and economic change.

The book studies multilateral population security issues and relevant governance strategies caused by international migration in the countries impacted by China's Belt and Road initiative and their border areas.

This book highlights new and innovative approaches to archaeological research using computational modeling while focusing on the Neolithic transition around the world.

Enda Delaney argues that migration to Britain was qualitatively different from that to North America and that transience was the overriding characteristic of Irish migrant experience in the twentieth century.

There has been, of late, a growing realisation that the pace and pattern of economic development of a country can hardly be understood and explained comprehensively in terms of the straitjacket of economics discipline alone.