Population and demography

These essays explore the nature of worldwide economic growth, population, and fertility changes.

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 carefully structured laboratory manual explores, by means of computer simulations, the key areas of population dynamics through time.

In one of the few anthropological works focusing on a contemporary Middle Eastern city, Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the core of the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Yeshayahu Leibowitz and Emmanuel Levinas were amongst the two leading Jewish thinkers to have emerged in the second half of the twentieth century.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

The journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, spanning the years from 1848 to 1889, is rare for its treatment of both the Civil War and postbellum years and for its candor and detail in treating these eras.

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

"e;We fail to mandate economic sanity,"e; writes Garrett Hardin, "e;because our brains are addled by.

A radical revision of existing ideas about the popularity, legal treatment and perceptions of cohabitation between 1600 and 2010.

Die AutorInnen dieses Sammelbandes untersuchen zentraleThemen der sozialen Gerontologie mit dem Blick auf Teilhabe im Alter: Armut undLebensstandardsicherung, Migration, Wohnen, Bildung und Lernen, Mobilität,Technik, Seniorenwirtschaft, betriebliches Alternsmanagement, Erwerbsarbeit Älterer,informelle und formelle Unterstützungssysteme, Generationenbeziehungen,Vereinbarkeit von Erwerbstätigkeit und Pflege, gesundheitliche und pflegerischeVersorgung, Personalbedarf in Altenarbeit und -pflege, quartiersbezogeneAltenpolitik und -arbeit, Demografiekonzepte, politische und soziale Partizipation.

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.

In the first Quarterly Essay of 2003, Tim Flannery launches an attack on the various lies that we tell ourselves about our resources, our past and our future.

A Population History of India provides an account of the size and characteristics of India's population stretching from when hunter-gatherer homo sapiens first arrived in the country - very roughly seventy thousand years ago - until the modern day.

Population Geography, Second Edition focuses on the relationships between population distribution and environment.

This book provides an in-depth investigation of citizenship and nationalism in connection with the Rohingya community.

This book investigates and documents multidimensional poverty in the United States and identifies patterns and relationships that contribute to the development of a more complete understanding of the incidence and intensity of deprivation.

When Thomas Gossett's Race: The History of an Idea in America appeared in 1963, it explored the impact of race theory on American letters in a way that anticipated the investigation of race and culture being conducted today.

On January 29, 2001, President George W.

Das Buch geht von drei möglichen Strategien zur langfristigen Bewältigung der Folgen des demografischen Wandels aus und untersucht eine davon eingehend: die Erhöhung der Kinderzahl.

In the latest addition to the New Naturalist series, Ian Newton explores bird populations and what causes their fluctuation - food supplies, competitors, predators, parasites, pathogens and human activity.

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.

With a timely new foreword by Robert Frank, this groundbreaking book explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today.

Alter(n) ist eine gesellschaftliche Konstruktion, die sich abhängig von soziokulturellen und sozialstrukturellen Rahmenbedingungen auf der einen Seite und lebensweltlichen Bezügen, Interaktions- und Beziehungssystemen auf der anderen Seite realisiert.

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Fit, frech, fröhlich, frei in jedem Alter – das ist kein Traum.

This edited volume focuses on social welfare and medicine within the French Empire and brings together important currents in both imperial history and the history of medicine.

This Brief provides a survey of key political, social, and economic issues affecting the Western Balkans region.

This edited volume is based on a highly original survey carried out between November 2011 and June 2012 among a panel of 6,000 voters.

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

What can local histories of interracial conflict and collaboration teach us about the potential for urban equity and social justice in the future?

Most major crime in this country emanates from two major data sources.

Modern nation states do not constitute closed entities.

In this study, first published in 2004, Nobel laureate Robert Fogel examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries.

Der demografische Wandel führt nicht nur zu einem Rückgang der Erwerbsbevölkerung, sondern auch zu neuen Ansprüchen und Vorstellungen der Beschäftigten im Arbeitsleben.

This book is the first compilation of its kind that brings together discussions of the evolution of scholarship in different branches of the Social Sciences.

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

The Committee on National Statistics and the Committee on Population, at the request of the NIA, convened a workshop in March 1996 to discuss data on the aging population that address the emerging and important social, economic, and health conditions of the older population.

In the wake of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015, millions took to the streets to demonstrate their revulsion, expressing a desire to reaffirm the ideals of the French Republic: libert , galit , fraternit .

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

What can local histories of interracial conflict and collaboration teach us about the potential for urban equity and social justice in the future?

Das vorliegende Buch befasst sich mit Vertrauen in die Polizei, wobei die Makroebene wie auch die Individualebene betrachtet und miteinander verknüpft werden.