Demography

This book is a practical guide on how to design, create and validate a spatial microsimulation model. These models are becoming more popular as academics and policy makers recognise the value of place in research and policy making. Recent spatial...

Navigating Time and Space in Population Studies presents innovative approaches to long-standing questions about the diffusion of population and demographic behavior across space and over time. This collection utilizes newly-available historical data...

This book touches upon a few of the major challenges that all modern societies will have to face in the near future: how to set up a resilient pay-as-you-go pension system; whether the current balance between expenses and revenues in social expenditure...

Fertility rates vary considerably across and within societies, and over time. Over the last three decades, social demographers have made remarkable progress in documenting these axes of variation, but theoretical models to explain family change and...

This book discusses the biological, methodological and sociological issues that have caused men to be overlooked in demographic and sociological literature of fertility. It explores the patterns and determinants of male fertility and studies male...

This book examines the history behind the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of population policies in the more developed, the less developed, and the least developed countries from 1950 until today, as well as their future prospects. It links...

Confounding all conventional wisdom, the fertility rate in the Islamic Republic of Iran fell from around 7.0 births per woman in the early 1980s to 1.9 births per woman in 2006. That this, the largest and fastest fall in fertility ever recorded, should...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789171066213Author Bo MalmbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Nordic African InstitutePublisher Nordic African InstituteWeight(grams) 94g

Winner of the 2019 LAMBDA Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies! Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence against Black Transgender Women in Houston contributes to a growing body of transgender scholarship. This book examines the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801350242Author Gül Ince-BeqoFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Transnational Press LondonPublisher Transnational Press LondonWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801353137Author Mohammed TaukeerFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Transnational Press LondonPublisher Transnational Press LondonWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847115328Author Katarzyna AdamczykFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbHWeight(grams) 297gDimensions(mm) 237mm...

This provocative and groundbreaking book is the first of its kind to propose the concept of Eco-ability: the intersectionality of the ecological world, persons with disabilities, and nonhuman animals. Rooted in disability studies and rights,...

Is demography destiny? Corporate marketers and government agencies act as if it is, producing mountains of statistics about Americans-most always remarkably inaccessible and dry. Now, America by the Numbers puts the power of demography back in the...

This book presents a detailed projection model to estimate future demand for care among older people. Using Poland as a case study, the author examines the impact of population ageing and changes in intergenerational relations on informal care provision...

The long 19th century, approximately 1750 to 1918, was one of significant existential change for peoples across the globe. The beginning of this period saw the expansion of empires, and shortly thereafter, the Euro-American Enlightenment brought about...

By most accounts, Europe has been mired in a "demographic crisis" since about 1970. By a demographic crisis is meant that Europe's dependency ratio is increasing, and the net result has been declining populations and fewer workers to sustain...

A timely, revelatory first look into the impact climate change has on children—the greatest moral crisis humanity faces today—by a pediatrician in the fastest warming city in America.Wildfires, hurricanes, and heat waves make headlines. But what is...

Includes discussion on the rationale of teaching about genocide; the history of genocide; and 10 cases studies of genocide perpetrated in the 20th century.Book InformationISBN 9781593110758Author Samuel TottenFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789368098973Author Norman MacLeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Double 9 BooksPublisher Double 9 BooksWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791029914263Author Thomas MalthusFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Fv EditionsPublisher Fv EditionsWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982181628Author Jean M TwengeFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 322g

This book examines one of the most important demographic changes facing the United States: an overall aging population and the increasing influence of Latinos. It also looks at the changing demographics in Mexico and its impact on the health and...

Getting College Ready: Latin@ Student Experiences of Race, Access, and Belonging at Predominantly White Universities challenges the way we conceive of college access, retention, and success for underrepresented students writ large. Specifically, through...

This book explores how demographic changes affect inter-generational transfers of time, money, goods, and services, all things that play a role in the well-being of individuals and families. It details the nature and measurement of transfers, their...

This edited collection shows how demographic analysis plays a pivotal role in planning, policy and funding decisions in Australia. Drawing on the latest demographic data and methods, these case studies in applied demography demonstrate that population...

Prestige examines whether social prestige is still an important axis of the stratification hierarchy. It appears that prestige has lost some of the close connection with social position it had in estates societies. Prestige distribution patterns have...

This book focuses on the methodology and analysis of state and local population projections. It describes the most commonly used data sources and application techniques for four types of projection methods: cohort-component, trend extrapolation,...

This book analyses the reasons for relying on behavioural contraception methods among urban 'elites' in India and examines their efficacy in controlling fertility. It also traces variations in contraception choice over the reproductive cycle of women...

This textbook focuses on the cohort change ratio (CCR) method. It presents powerful, yet relatively simple ways to generate accurate demographic estimates and forecasts that are cost efficient and require fewer resources than other techniques. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783756802739Author Andreas SeidlFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 118g

This book provides an up-to-date overview of demographic analysis and methods, including recent developments in demography. Concepts and methods, from the nature of demographic information through data collection and the basics of statistical measures...

The study deals predominantly with basic questions of Historical Demography that have so far not yet been tackled, as no adequate sources seemed to exist, or the effort for digging into these problems seemed outrageous. Many major gaps are filled in this...

This new volume maps the complex interplay of demographic and socioeconomic changes in the United States, where rapid aging and ethnic diversification are merely the most salient of the many issues with major long-term implications. Drawing on The United...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771084475Author Richard SaillantFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Nimbus Publishing (CN)Publisher Nimbus Publishing (CN)Weight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592406708Author Dante ChinniFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 369g

This book focuses on the concept of subjective views of aging. This concept refers to the way individuals conceptualize and perceive the aging process. Social and cultural perceptions regarding older adults are incorporated and internalized into views...

This volume examines two distinct low fertility scenarios that have emerged in economically advanced countries since the turn of the 20th century: one in which fertility is at or near replacement-level and the other where fertility is well below...

Does human mortality after age 110 continue to rise, level off, or start to decline? This book describes a concerted, international research effort undertaken with the goal of establishing a database that allows the best possible description of the...

Integrating research from anthropology, biology, and history, this provocative, brilliant book proposes a theory of demographic equilibrium. The author's hypothesis is that human beings, like many other species, are able to adjust their population...