Population and demography

Modern family life raises tough questions: Who should be responsible for children's daily care?

Does Aging Stop?

Many would be surprised to learn that the preferred method of birth control in the United States today is actually surgical sterilization.

Human population growth has been a topic of speculation and spirited debate since the English economist Thomas Malthus predicted that population will increase faster than the food supply, with catastrophic results.

Quantifiable citizenship in the form of birth certificates, census forms, and immigration quotas is so ubiquitous that today it appears ahistorical.

Sexting.

Sexting.

For much of its history, human population growth increased at a glacial pace.

For much of its history, human population growth increased at a glacial pace.

International migration has reached new heights since the 1960s.

Throughout the industrialized world, international migrants serve as nannies, construction workers, gardeners and small-business entrepreneurs.

Despite the twenty-first century's often being referred to as the Asian Century-indicating hope for economic growth and the rebalancing of the global order-population aging and stagnation present an existential threat to the success of China and other territories of Pacific Asia (namely Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea).

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Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798.

'Jha is the right scholar and economist to take readers through the development of the Indian economy.

This book focuses on the concept of subjective views of aging.

This edited book empirically discusses stratification in contemporary Japanese society.

This book presents a critical analysis and examination of the major theories and social issues in the social construction of aging and death.

This book addresses the challenge of understanding human life.

This collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction-defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate-and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work of daily life.

This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of applied demography by presenting both basic concepts and methodological techniques.

This volume is being published at a critical time in U.

This is the first book that takes a theoretical approach to the effects of international immigration by considering the current economic topics confronted by more highly developed countries such as Japan.

This volume extends and deepens our knowledge about cross-border mobility and its role in an enlarged EU.

This book explores positive aging through the lens of precarity, aiming to ground positive aging theories in current social contexts.

This volume looks at how accumulation in postcolonial capitalism blurs the boundaries of space, institutions, forms, financial regimes, labour processes, and economic segments on one hand, and creates zones and corridors on the other.

On average, people in Europe are living longer, and are in better health.

This book explores the life of economist and social scientist Wilhelm Lexis and the key demographic instrument named after him: the Lexis diagram.

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

The book examines the history of abortion and contraception in Modern Greece from the time of its creation in the 1830s to 1967, soon after the Pill became available.

This book examines the use of agent-based modelling (ABM) in population studies, from concepts to applications, best practices to future developments.

The transitional phase from pre-older adult to older adult affects the wellbeing of the concerned person economically, physically, and psychologically.

On January 29, 2001, President George W.

Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962.

Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena.

How do corporations and other organizations maintain and transmit their cultures over time?

An in-depth look at how U.

Women of the Republic views the American Revolution through womens eyes.

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

This cutting edge collection examines Japan's population issue, exploring how declining demographic trends are affecting Japan's social structure, specifically in the context of Greater Tokyo, life infrastructure, public finance and the economy.

In this book, the author seeks to understand China's urban redevelopment from the theoretical perspective of the local entrepreneurial state.

Epidemiology and Demography in Public Health provides practical guidance on planning and implementing surveillance and investigation of disease and disease outbreaks.

For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent.

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.

An authoritative overview of the continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day.

A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Agewhen there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteenand explores what it could mean for our collective future.

Fertility, Biology, and Behavior: An Analysis of the Proximate Determinants presents the proximate determinants of natural fertility.

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 upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing.