An authoritative overview of the concepts and applications of biological demography

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to biodemography, an exciting interdisciplinary field that unites the natural science of biology with the social science of human demography. Biodemography is an essential resource for demographers, epidemiologists, gerontologists, and health professionals as well as ecologists, population biologists, entomologists, and conservation biologists. This accessible and innovative book is also ideal for the classroom.

James Carey and Deborah Roach cover everything from baseline demographic concepts to biodemographic applications, and present models and equations in discrete rather than continuous form to enhance mathematical accessibility. They use a wealth of real-world examples that draw from data sets on both human and nonhuman species and offer an interdisciplinary approach to demography like no other, with topics ranging from kinship theory and family demography to reliability engineering, tort law, and demographic disasters such as the Titanic and the destruction of Napoleon's Grande Armee.

• Provides the first synthesis of demography and biology
  
• Covers baseline demographic models and concepts such as Lexis diagrams, mortality, fecundity, and population theory
  
• Features in-depth discussions of biodemographic applications like harvesting theory and mark-recapture
  
• Draws from data sets on species ranging from fruit flies and plants to elephants and humans
  
• Uses a uniquely interdisciplinary approach to demography, bringing together a diverse range of concepts, models, and applications
  
• Includes informative "biodemographic shorts," appendixes on data visualization and management, and more than 150 illustrations of models and equations
  

About the Author
James R. Carey is Distinguished Professor of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, and Senior Scholar at the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging at the University of California, Berkeley. Deborah A. Roach is Professor of Biology at the University of Virginia and past president of the Evolutionary Demography Society.

Reviews
"An accessible and practical overview of the demographic approaches that may offer insights into a range of important biological questions."---Marlene Gamelon and Hannah Froy, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
"In their new book, [James R. Carey & Deborah A. Roach] provide an excellent introduction to the concepts and methods that form the foundation of biodemography."---Marlene Gamelon and Hannah Froy, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
"Biodemography deserves to prove itself a useful resource for both those taking their first steps in biodemography as well as for more experienced researchers seeking to broaden their horizons or reference a single resource. . . . The success of the book is in relating those equations to modern life and, in doing so, describing how we might better understand the risks, challenges and opportunities of the ways in which populations change through time."---Thomas H. G. Ezard, Biometrical Journal
"[An] excellent resource for demographers, population biologists, epidemiologists, and other professionals who study population-level outcomes."---K.R. Thompson, CHOICE



Book Information
ISBN 9780691129006
Author James R. Carey
Format Hardback
Page Count 480
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press