Population and society
Subtitle: essential readings
By: edited by Frank Trovato.
Contributors: Trovato, Frank, 1951-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Don Mills, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Population.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: SECTION 1. WORLD POPULATION: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE; title: Chapter I. How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?; title: Carl Haub; title: Chapter 2. Population Growth in the Twenty-First Century: Cause for Crisis or Celebration?; title: John Cleland; title: SECTION 2. PERSPECTIVES ON POPULATION, ENVIRONMENT,; title: AND RESOURCES; title: Chapter 3. Marxism and the Population Question: Theory and Practice; title: William Petersen; title: Chapter 4. Are There Ecological Limits to Population?; title: Nathan Keyfitz; title: SECTION 3. MORTALITY AND POPULATION HEALTH; title: A. HEALTH AND MORTALITY DYNAMICS IN INDUSTRIALIZED SOCIETIES; title: Chapter 5. The Fourth Stage of the Epidemiologic Transition: The Age of; title: Delayed Degenerative Diseases; title: S. Jay Olshansky and A. Brian Ault; title: Chapter 6. What's the Fuss about Compression of Mortality?; title: K. C. Manton and Burton Singer; title: B. HEALTH AND MORTALITY DYNAMICS IN DEVELOPING NATIONS; title: Chapter 7. Population Growth, Poverty, and Health; title: Joachim S. Kibirige; title: Chapter 8. The African AIDS Epidemic; title: John C. Caldwell and Pat Caldwell; title: C. MORTALITY INEqUALITIES; title: Chapter 9. Why Women Live Longer than Men; title: Thomas T Perls and Ruth C Fretts; title: Chapter 10. The Epidemiologic Transition: From Material Scarcity to Social Disadvantage?; title: Richard G. Wilkinson; title: SECTION 4. FERTILITY; title: A. BIOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF FERTILITY; title: Chapter I I. Fertility, Biology, and Behaviour: An Analysis of the Proximate Determinants; title: John Bongaarts and Robert G. Potter; title: B. EXPLANATIONS OF FERTILITY CHANGE; title: Chapter I2. The Theory of Change and Response in Modern Demographic History; title: Kingsly, Davis; title: Chapter 13. Towards a Restatement of Demographic Transition Theory; title: John C Caldwell; title: Chapter 14. Cultural Dynamics and Economic Theories of Fertility Change; title: Ron Lesthaeghe andJohan Surkyn; title: Chapter 15. Of Patriarchy Born: The Political Economy of Fertility Decisions; title: Nancy Folbre; title: C. FERTILITY PATTERNS IN INDUSTRIALIZED AND DEVELOPING NATIONS; title: Chapter I6. Recent FertilityTrends in Industrialized Countries: Toward a Fluctuating; title: or a Stable Pattern?; title: Lincoln H. Day; title: Chapter 17. The Fertility Decline in Developing Countries; title: Bryant Robey, Shea 0. Rutstein, and Leo Morris; title: SECTION 5. AGE-SEX COMPOSITION; title: Chapter 18. How a Population Ages or Grows Younger; title: Ansleyj Coale; title: Chapter 19. Grey Dawn: The Global Aging Crisis; title: Peter C. Peterson; title: SECTION 6. MIGRATION AND URBANIZATION 2; title: A. INTERNAL MIGRATION AND URBANIZATION 2; title: Chapter 20. The Hypothesis of the MobilityTransition; title: Wilbur Zelinsky; title: Chapter 21. Global Urbanization: Towards the Twenty-First Century; title: Terence G. McGee and C.J Griffiths; title: B. INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION 2; title: Chapter 22. The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World; title: Stephen Castles and Markj. Miller; title: Chapter 23. Theories of International Migration: A Review and Appraisal; title: Douglas S. Massey, Joaquin Arango, Graeme Hugo, Ali Kouaouci, Adela Pellegrino, andj Edward Taylo; title: SECTION 7. POPULATION CHANGE AND POLICY RESPONSES; title: Chapter 24. Can Liberal States Control Unwanted Migration?; title: Gary P Freeman; title: Chapter 25. The Unmet Need for Family Planning; title: Maleoln Potts; title: Credits.