Author: Kingsley Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521673365
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This collection of eighteen papers and eleven commentaries by noted economists, demographers, and sociologists, combines systematic discussions of the demographic effects of below-replacement fertility with efforts to explain its social origins, to determine the likely societal consequences and to assess potential policy responses.
Below-Replacement Fertility in Industrial Societies
Author: Kingsley Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521673365
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This collection of eighteen papers and eleven commentaries by noted economists, demographers, and sociologists, combines systematic discussions of the demographic effects of below-replacement fertility with efforts to explain its social origins, to determine the likely societal consequences and to assess potential policy responses.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521673365
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This collection of eighteen papers and eleven commentaries by noted economists, demographers, and sociologists, combines systematic discussions of the demographic effects of below-replacement fertility with efforts to explain its social origins, to determine the likely societal consequences and to assess potential policy responses.
Below-replacement Fertility in Industrial Societies
Author: Kingsley Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521343244
Category : Fertility, Human
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521343244
Category : Fertility, Human
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Demographic Transition Theory
Author: John C. Caldwell
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402044984
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
This book has a strong theoretical focus and is unique in addressing both mortality and fertility over the full span of human history. It examines the demographic transition in the change in the human condition from high mortality and high fertility to low mortality and low fertility. It asks if fluctuating populations is a new phenomenon, or if there has long been an inherent tendency in Man to maximize survival and to control family size.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402044984
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
This book has a strong theoretical focus and is unique in addressing both mortality and fertility over the full span of human history. It examines the demographic transition in the change in the human condition from high mortality and high fertility to low mortality and low fertility. It asks if fluctuating populations is a new phenomenon, or if there has long been an inherent tendency in Man to maximize survival and to control family size.
The Population Bomb
Author: Paul R. Ehrlich
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781568495873
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781568495873
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Infertility Trap
Author: R. John Aitken
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108940811
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Human fertility rates are dropping at an unprecedented rate. This book highlights the consequences of our current inaction.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108940811
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Human fertility rates are dropping at an unprecedented rate. This book highlights the consequences of our current inaction.
The Global Spread of Fertility Decline
Author: Jay Winter
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300139063
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
div This incisive study explores population movements and declining fertility in China, India, Japan, and North America in the 21st century, suggesting that politics, in addition to cultural and economic concerns, must be included as a prime determining factor in these powerful global trends. /DIV
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300139063
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
div This incisive study explores population movements and declining fertility in China, India, Japan, and North America in the 21st century, suggesting that politics, in addition to cultural and economic concerns, must be included as a prime determining factor in these powerful global trends. /DIV
The Birth Dearth
Author: Ben J. Wattenberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Syndicated columist Wattenberg is the author of The Good News Is That the Bad News Is Wrong and other optimistic books. Conversely, his new book aims at warning the public about the so-called danger of the declining birth rate in the U.S. and allied countries. Taking issue with those who cite problems arising from overpopulation, the author quotes statistics to argue that democratic nations potentially are weaker now, with fewer young people. The book contains bleak predictions of a future with America and European citizenry vastly outnumbered by people from other parts of the world. Speculating on the consequences of the birth dearth, Wattenberg provokes concern about a crippled economy and other threats to an industrial society diminished in status and strength. Author tour. (July 7) -Publishers Weekly.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Syndicated columist Wattenberg is the author of The Good News Is That the Bad News Is Wrong and other optimistic books. Conversely, his new book aims at warning the public about the so-called danger of the declining birth rate in the U.S. and allied countries. Taking issue with those who cite problems arising from overpopulation, the author quotes statistics to argue that democratic nations potentially are weaker now, with fewer young people. The book contains bleak predictions of a future with America and European citizenry vastly outnumbered by people from other parts of the world. Speculating on the consequences of the birth dearth, Wattenberg provokes concern about a crippled economy and other threats to an industrial society diminished in status and strength. Author tour. (July 7) -Publishers Weekly.
The "population Problem" in Pacific Asia
Author: Stuart Gietel-Basten
Publisher:
ISBN: 019936107X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This book argues that Asia's population aging and stagnation needs to be viewed through a multi-dimensional lens, serving as a useful resource for government workers, stakeholders, and scholars in sociology, demography, geography, and economics.--Adapted from dust jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN: 019936107X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This book argues that Asia's population aging and stagnation needs to be viewed through a multi-dimensional lens, serving as a useful resource for government workers, stakeholders, and scholars in sociology, demography, geography, and economics.--Adapted from dust jacket.
Count Down
Author: Shanna H. Swan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982113677
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
An award-winning scientist, in this urgent, thought-provoking and meticulously researched book, shows how chemicals in the modern environment are changing--and endangering--human sexuality and fertility on the grandest scale.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982113677
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
An award-winning scientist, in this urgent, thought-provoking and meticulously researched book, shows how chemicals in the modern environment are changing--and endangering--human sexuality and fertility on the grandest scale.
Values in Western Societies
Author: R. A. de Moor
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789036196369
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The European Values Study is a large-scale, cross-national, and longitudinal survey research program on basic human values, initiated by the European Value Systems Study Group (EVSSG) in the late 1970s, at that time an informal grouping of academics. Now, it is carried on in the setting of a foundation, using the (abbreviated) name of the group European Values Study (EVS). The EVSSG aimed at designing and conducting a major empirical study of the moral and social values underlying European social and political institutions and governing conduct. A rich academic literature has now been created around the original survey, and numerous other works have made use of the findings.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789036196369
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The European Values Study is a large-scale, cross-national, and longitudinal survey research program on basic human values, initiated by the European Value Systems Study Group (EVSSG) in the late 1970s, at that time an informal grouping of academics. Now, it is carried on in the setting of a foundation, using the (abbreviated) name of the group European Values Study (EVS). The EVSSG aimed at designing and conducting a major empirical study of the moral and social values underlying European social and political institutions and governing conduct. A rich academic literature has now been created around the original survey, and numerous other works have made use of the findings.