Population and demography

This book provides insights into the enormous impact of fetal and newborn loss in the aftermath of the natural disasters that Japanese society constantly has to face.

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

This book explores the population development challenges in China.

The area of eastern Africa, which includes Tanzania and Kenya, is known for its savannas, wildlife and tribal peoples.

This Brief presents the first major release of findings from the Third International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD3).

This book examines the relationship between retirement and health of older people in Japan's super-aging society and provides a key to understanding the remarkable longevity of the population.

In this book interrelated factor demand models are surveyed.

How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality?

Der Sammelband fasst wichtige Themen und Entwicklungen der Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung der letzten Jahre zusammen.

The Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics is an authoritative volume on an established subject in political science and the academy more generally: urban politics and urban studies.

This book investigates the most effective behavior change communication (BCC) strategies to reach socio-economically vulnerable mothers to promote early initiation of breastfeeding after birth in rural Niger.

This book celebrates the life and work of Peter Nijkamp, whose research provides a strong focus on regional science.

Drawing a transdisciplinary perspective, this book investigates the ways in which gender intersect with rebuilding and post-disaster recovery process.

This edited collection explores the links between human capital (both in the form of health and in the form of education), demographic change, and economic growth.

This book provides state-of-the-art information on ambient assisted living (AAL), and focuses on technologies, services, living spaces, policies, and interventions to promote health, improve quality of life, and active aging.

Improving State Voter Registration Databases outlines several actions that are needed to help make voter registration databases capable of sharing information within state agencies and across state lines.

The book focuses on the human and social effects of the construction of hydroelectric dams in Brazil.

Examining the new realities of economic immigration to Europe, this book focuses on new trends and developments, including the rediscovery of economic migration, legalization measures, irregular migration, East-West flows, the role of business and employer associations, new positions amongst trade unions, and service sector liberalization.

A clear, comprehensive survey of British history from 1900 to the present, integrating political, economic, social and cultural history.

This book provides analyses of sanitation, health, population dynamics and demographic variables from different perspectives, including data science, statistics, modeling, economics and natural sciences, to inform sustainable decision making and policies related public health and hygiene and in mainly rural and impoverished areas.

Does multiculturalism 'work'?

Les Parcs naturels régionaux ont cinquante ans.

Community Development through Tourism examines the development of local communities through the healthy integration of community planning, business planning and tourism planning.

When Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1924, he held up a foreign law as a model for his program of racial purification: The U.

This handbook presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of gender in demography, addressing the many different influences of gender that arise from or influence demographic processes.

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

People's transnational ties and activities are acquiring ever greater importance and topicality in today's world.

This book offers an overview of the latest developments in contemporary population issues by examining the current unprecedented changes in fertility, family behavior, mortality, and migration.

This groundbreaking study of South Africa provides a unique look at the interplay of demographic, social and economic processes in a society undergoing rapid change as a result of the collapse of apartheid.

This book provides a comparison of the measurement in time and monetary units of unpaid domestic work in Colombia, Costa Rica, Uruguay, and the Hispanic ethnicity in the United States.

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

EDITORS Hans V AN DEN BREKEL * and Fred DEVEN** * NIDI, P.

In entlegenen, ländlichen Räumen ergeben sich komplexe Problemlagen, die eine interdisziplinäre Erforschung notwendig machen.

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness.

Infrastructures are fundamental means through which societies create spaces, but little is known about the precise ways in which this occurs.

This book provides a picture of a globalized Malaysia where its conventionally-conceived multi-ethnic composition of Malays, Chinese, Indians and Others rub shoulders with or interact more intimately on a daily basis with transnational ethnoscapes of migrant workers, asylum seekers, international students, and foreign spouses.