Population and demography

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English cleric whose ideas, as expounded in his most famous work the Essay on the Principle of Population, caused a storm of controversy.

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive introduction to the distinguishing features of Chinese families.

Malthus's Essay looks at the perennial tendency of humans to outstrip their resources: reproduction always exceeds food production.

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive introduction to the distinguishing features of Chinese families.

As China is transformed, relations between society, the state, and the city have become central.

Developed countries, especially in Europe, face a number of issue related to migration: social and economic disruptions caused by the declining demand for unskilled labour and resulting unemployment, a shortage of skilled labour in many professions, increasing international competition for highly qualified human capital, radical demographic changes, and the forthcoming expansion of the European Union, which will trigger further immigration into major European countries and create new market opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe.

By 1300, medieval men and women were beginning to measure multitude, counting, for example, numbers of boys and girls being baptized.

With the largest population in the world, China has experienced significant demographic, social, and economic changes in recent decades.

Why did Europe experience industrialisation and modern economic growth before China, India or Japan?

Throughout its history as a social science, demography has been associated with an exclusively quantitative orientation for studying social problems.

In this synthetic, interdisciplinary work, Neil Brenner develops a new interpretation of the transformation of statehood under contemporary globalizing capitalism.

Over the past two decades, the epidemic of HIV/AIDS has challenged the public health community to fundamentally rethink the framework for preventing infectious diseases.

Western families are undergoing considerable change.

The effect of demography on economic performance has been the subject of intense debate in economics for nearly two centuries.

Expelling the Germans focuses on how Britain perceived the mass movement of German populations from Poland and Czechoslovakia at the end of the Second World War.

The voices in this book belong to parliamentarians, city councillors, doctors and engineers, a few professors, lawyers and social workers, owners of small businesses, translators, and community activists.

The Human Sciences address problems in nature and society that often require coordinated approaches of several scientific disciplines and scholarly research, embracing the social and biological sciences, and history.

This handbook presents a collection of high-quality, authoritative scientific contributions on cross-border migration, written by a carefully selected group of recognized migration experts from around the globe.

Predicting the shape of our future populations is vital for installing the infrastructure, welfare, and provisions necessary for society to survive.

Predicting the shape of our future populations is vital for installing the infrastructure, welfare, and provisions necessary for society to survive.

During the 1990s lone mothers reached the top of the political agenda, viewed as both a drain on public expenditure and a moral threat.

During the 1990s lone mothers reached the top of the political agenda, viewed as both a drain on public expenditure and a moral threat.

What are the impacts of population growth?

This book addresses systematically and quantitatively the role of educational attainment in global population trends and models.

The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics presents up-to-date theoretical analyses of various problems associated with the moral standing of future people and animals in current decision-making.

The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics presents up-to-date theoretical analyses of various problems associated with the moral standing of future people and animals in current decision-making.

Government sponsored breeding programs, medals of motherhood, forced abortions, and surgical sterilization on park benches--all of these policies have come out of government efforts to nationalize sex and harness procreation as a tool of the state.

Government sponsored breeding programs, medals of motherhood, forced abortions, and surgical sterilization on park benches--all of these policies have come out of government efforts to nationalize sex and harness procreation as a tool of the state.

Creative Team Work describes a new way of doing rapid ethnography to capture the rich complexity and contradictions of social relations.

Creative Team Work describes a new way of doing rapid ethnography to capture the rich complexity and contradictions of social relations.

In this study of exile, Sean Akerman chronicles the ways in which narrative approaches provide opportunities to understand and represent the lives of those who have been displaced after violence.

In this study of exile, Sean Akerman chronicles the ways in which narrative approaches provide opportunities to understand and represent the lives of those who have been displaced after violence.

As the largest and youngest minority group in the United States, the 60 million Latinos living in the U.

As the largest and youngest minority group in the United States, the 60 million Latinos living in the U.

Since the onset of the mortgage lending crisis and the subsequent Great Recession, there has been ongoing debate about the economic benefits of homeownership.

Since the onset of the mortgage lending crisis and the subsequent Great Recession, there has been ongoing debate about the economic benefits of homeownership.

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.

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.

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

When it comes to government's role in personal matters such as family planning, most bristle at any interference from the State on how to exercise their reproductive rights.

A social epidemiologist looks at health inequalities in terms of the upstream factors that produced them.

A social epidemiologist looks at health inequalities in terms of the upstream factors that produced them.

Population health is complex and multileveled, encompassing dynamic interactions between cells, societies, and everything in between.

Population health is complex and multileveled, encompassing dynamic interactions between cells, societies, and everything in between.

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.

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