Demography category: 971 books
Social Integration of Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Current Status, Determinants and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book focuses on rural-urban migrants in China. They are one of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in the country but are essential to the country's industrialization and urbanization. Integration of these migrants into urban societies is an urgent issue facing Chinese policy makers....
Reversing Population Growth Swiftly and Painlessly
A Simple Two-Credit System to Regulate Birth Rates and Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Population growth hastens the depletion of natural resources, degrades the environment, increases poverty and conflict, and debases the human spirit. This book offers an antidote. It prescribes a simple and practical credit-based system that can gradually reduce the size of any population to an optimal...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Human mobility has been a defining feature of human social evolution. In a global community, the term "mobility" captures the full gamut of types, directions, and patterns of human movement. The psychology of mobility is important because movement is inherently behavioral. Much of the behavioral...
Urban Geography (Routledge Revivals)
An Introductory Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book, first published in 1982, addressed the need for a fresh and comprehensive guide to the rapidly expanding area of urban geography. Drawing on examples from cities in a number of countries, including the U.S.A., David Clark outlines the contribution of geographers to the understanding of...
The Population of the South
Structure and Change in Social Demographic Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
The expression "the New South" was introduced by Henry Grady, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, to a New York audience in 1886; every generation of writers since has used the term. The southern population, unique in its socioeconomic and cultural characteristics, has always been a topic of major interest...
by Thomas Malthus
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798. He predicted what is known as the Malthusian catastrophe, in which humans would disregard the limits of natural resources and the world would be plagued...
Childbearing and Careers of Japanese Women Born in the 1960s
A Life Course That Brought Unintended Low Fertility
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
This book provides the keys to understanding the trajectory that Japanese society has followed toward its lowest-low fertility since the 1980s. The characteristics of the life course of women born in the 1960s, who were the first cohort to enter that trajectory, are explored by using both qualitative...
Determinants of the Fertility Rates in Ireland and Iceland
A Structural Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2008
Project Report from the year 2007 in the subject Sociology - Social System, Social Structure, Class, Social Stratification, grade: 1,0, University of Bamberg (Fakultät für Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften), course: HS Family and Work Policies, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English,...
Low fertility in Europe
Is there still reason to worry?
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
Recent statistics suggest that fertility in Europe shows signs of recovery after decades of year-on-year drops. This report updates a study on low fertility from 2004 and explores the extent, causes and consequences of the recent recovery.
by Sarah Harper
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Predicting the shape of our future populations is vital for installing the infrastructure, welfare, and provisions necessary for society to survive. There are many opportunities and challenges that will come with the changes in our populations over the 21st century. In this new addition to the 21st...
Low Fertility, Institutions, and their Policies
Variations Across Industrialized Countries
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This volume examines ten economically advanced countries in Europe and Asia that have experienced different levels of fertility decline. It offers readers a cross-country perspective on the causes and consequences of low birth rates and the different policy responses to this worrying trend.
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Population and Strategies for National Sustainable Development
Population and Strategies for National Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Robert R. Jr. Swartout
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts when Montana historian Robert Swartout gathers the fascinating stories of the state’s surprisingly diverse ethnic groups into this thought-provoking collection of essays. Fourteen chapters showcase an African American nightclub in Great Falls, a Japanese...
Mambo Montage
The Latinization of New York City
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2001
New York is the capital of mambo and a global factory of latinidad. This book covers the topic in all its multifaceted aspects, from Jim Crow baseball in the first half of the twentieth century to hip hop and ethno-racial politics, from Latinas and labor unions to advertising and Latino culture, from...