Population and demography

An eye-opening exploration of humanity s unprecedented path to global depopulation and why it's in everyone's interests to prevent it.

The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality-a critically important examination of poverty around the worldIn this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of the world's great social scientists and a pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality, offers an inspiring analysis of a central question: What is poverty and how much of it is there around the globe?

Using as his example post-World War I Italy and the government's interest in the size, growth rate, and "e;vitality"e; of its national population, David Horn suggests a genealogy for our present understanding of procreation as a site for technological intervention and political contestation.

Does your real age match the age you feel?

Boris Yeltsin's attempts at democratic reform have plunged a long troubled Russia even further into turmoil.

Is management a profession?

What's the real story behind the 2000 presidential election fiasco?

The central aim of many studies in population research and demography is to explain cause-effect relationships among variables or events.

According to current understanding, Malthus was hostile to an excess of population because it caused social sufferings, while Marx was favourable to demographic growth in so far as a large proletariat was a factor aggravating the contradictions of capitalism.

Many parts of the world are experiencing rapid demographic restructuring, resulting in an ageing population with increasingly significant work and care pressures on cohorts less able or willing to provide support.

Does multiculturalism 'work'?

Justin O'Connor and Lily Kong The cultural and creative industries have become increasingly prominent in many policy agendas in recent years.

China's concentrated HIV epidemic is on the brink of becoming a generalized one and syphilis infection has become a major public health threat.

The anti-causal prophecies of last century have been disproved.

Social differences in health and mortality constitute a persistent finding in epidemiological, demographic, and sociological research.

Peter Uhlenberg The classic handbook of population, The Study of Pop- by the beginning of the twenty-first century and p- ulation edited by Philip Hauser and Otis Dudley Dun- jections show that by 2035 there will be twice as many can, was published in 1959.

Applied Demography is clearly evolving as its practitioners become involved in the emerging trends of the Twenty-First Century.

The transition from hunting and gathering to farming - the Neolithic Revolution - was one of the most signi cant cultural processes in human history that forever changed the face of humanity.

Born during the Great Depression and World War Two (1929 1945) an entire generation has slipped between the cracks of history.

Forty years ago, the age-old battle against infectious diseases as a major threat to human health was believed close to being won.

The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population's Panel on Historical Demography applies a historical perspective, such as the importance of kinship networks for demographic outcomes later in life, to promote work of contemporary relevance.

European countries, including the DIALOG countries, have faced a major de- graphic change and transition in the last thirty years.

Jean-Pierre BOCQUET-APPEL CNRS, Paris, France The written data used by demographers essentially cover the last five centuries.

This book examines the migration of older persons to rural retirement destinations in the United States.

Although both demography and gender relations have been the focus of research for quite some time, the intersection of gender studies and demographic analysis is a more recent phenomenon.

Our societies are ageing.

Working through Barriers deals with the role host countries' institutional characteristics play in the labour market integration of immigrants in the European Union.

Dynamic Population Models is the first book to comprehensively discuss and synthesize the emerging field of dynamic modeling, i.

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This book aims to show how the multilevel approach successfully overcomes the divisions that emerged during the rise of the social sciences- specifically, here, demography and statistics-from the seventeenth century to the present.

Old-age survival has considerably improved in the second half of the twentieth century.

One of the most important demographic issues of our time is the increasing age of women at motherhood.

Empirical research often lacks theory.

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The thesis of this book is that there are one set of equations that can define any trip between an origin and destination.

A fundamental issue facing the global community is meeting the challenges of population aging and achieving healthy aging to maintain an active older population and reduce the number of disabled people.

In rapidly industrializing countries, demographic changes continue to have significant effects on the well-being of individuals and families, and as aggregate human and financial capital.

In the 21st century, the populations of the world's nations will display large and long-lived changes in age structure.

Environmental change in general, and climatic change in particular, are likely to impact significantly upon resources such as water and soils, transforming present day landscapes and their ecological characteristics.