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A Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age and Ageing

This book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing – one’s individual ability to perform actions in ...

Agent-Based Computational Modelling

The present book describes the methodology to set up agent-based models and to study emerging patterns in complex adaptive ...

Allocating Public and Private Resources across Generations

The chapters in this volume greatly develop our understanding of the nature and measurement of transfers, their motives and ...

Applied Demography in the 21st Century : Selected Papers from the Biennial Conference on Applied Demography, San Antonio, Texas, January 7–9, 2007

The work contains chapters on several major topical areas that are central to applied demography including works on data ...

Applied Mathematical Demography

it focus on applications of demographic models, while extending its scope to matrix models for stage-classified populations.first ...

Aquaculture Perspective of Multi-Use Sites in the Open Ocean

This volume addresses the potential for combining large-scale marine aquaculture of macroalgae, molluscs, crustaceans, and ...

Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, Causes, and Consequences

This open access book provides an overview of childlessness throughout Europe. It offers a collection of papers written ...

Co-creating Digital Public Services for an Ageing Society Evidence for User-centric Design

This book attends to the co-creation of digital public services for ageing societies. Increasingly public services are provided ...

Costs and Benefits of Collective Pension Systems

The Dutch pension system is often praised as one of the best in the world: it is efficient, it provides certainty to participants ...

Demographic Change and Intergenerational Justice : The Implementation of Long-Term Thinking in the Political Decision Making Process

The book deals with the complex relationship between intergenerational justice and demographic change and is characterized ...

Demographic Change in Germany

Just as one might be inclined to thinkthat every thing about demographic change has been already said and heard, a new dimension ...

Demographic Transition Theory

This study addresses these issues. Part I addresses the situation among hunters and gatherers, traditional farmers and classical ...

Developments in Demographic Forecasting

This book presents new developments in the field of demographic forecasting, covering both mortality, fertility and migration. ...

Differential Undercounts in the U.S. Census

This book describes the differences in US census coverage, also referred to as “differential undercount”, by showing ...

Divorce in Europe New Insights in Trends, Causes and Consequences of Relation Break-ups

This book collects the major discussions in divorce research in Europe. It starts with an understanding of divorce trends. ...

Dynamic Population Models

The book is well organized and clearly written so that it is accessible to those with only a minimal knowledge of calculus. ...

Exceptional Lifespans

How long can humans live? This open access book documents, verifies and brings to life the advance of the frontier of human ...

Female Employment and Gender Gaps in China

This book investigates female employment and the gender gap in the labor market and households during China’s economic ...

Genders in the Life Course

Treats the topic of gender and demographic behaviour during the life course in a comprehensive fashion. It covers a lot of ...

Global Political Demography The Politics of Population Change

This book draws the big picture of how population change interplays with politics across the world from 1990 to 2040.

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