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People, Population Change and Policies : Lessons from the Population Policy Acceptance Study Vol. 1: Family Change

This two-volume work presents social cohesion and demographic challenges that are associated with low birth rates and population ...

People, Population Change and Policies Lessons from the Population Policy Acceptance Study Vol. 2: Demographic Knowledge – Gender – Ageing

This two-volume work presents social cohesion and demographic challenges that are associated with low birth rates and population ...

Population Change and Rural Society

Dramatic reductions in labor requirements per unit of agricultural output were occurring everywhere and not just in the United ...

Population, Resources and Development

In the 21st century, the populations of the world’s nations will display large and long-lived changes in age structure. ...

Primate Biogeography

Biogeography, the study of the distribution of organisms over the surface of the earth, plays a central role in our understanding ...

Recent Advances in Palaeodemography : Data, Techniques, Patterns

The written data used by demographers essentially cover the last five centuries. Since Homo Ergaster moved out of Africa ...

Religion and the Decline of Fertility in the Western World

This book provides new insights into the relationships between religion and demography during the crucial period of the nineteenth ...

Research Methods in Urban and Regional Planning

Urban and regional planners develop and evaluate plans for communities—the places we live, work, interact, and entertain ...

Same-Sex Families and Legal Recognition in Europe

This book focuses on family diversity from a legal, demographical and sociological perspective. It investigates what is ...

Saving and Investment in the Twenty-First Century The Great Divergence

The economy of the 21st century in the OECD countries and in China, is characterized by a new phenomenon: the structural ...

Seasonality in Human Mortality

Seasonal fluctuations in mortality are a persistent phenomenon across populations. In Western countries of the Northern hemisphere, ...

Sensitivity Analysis: Matrix Methods in Demography and Ecology

This book shows how to use sensitivity analysis in demography. It presents new methods for individuals, cohorts, and populations, ...

Sequence Analysis and Related Approaches

This open access book provides innovative methods and original applications of sequence analysis (SA) and related methods ...

Shared Physical Custody Interdisciplinary Insights in Child Custody Arrangements

This book provides an overview of the ever-growing phenomenon of children in shared physical custody thereby providing legal, ...

Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origins

This is the best book we have about the methodology to conduct research on the second generation or the children of immigrants ...

Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons

This book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic ...

Social Exclusion in Later Life Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives

Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent ...

Social Security, Demographics, and Risk

In this book, we first provide an overview of thecentral issue of social security and will then take a close look at social ...

Socioeconomic Differences in Old Age Mortality

Provides a comprehensive, thoughtful and critical discussion of all aspects involved in the relationship between socioeconomic ...

Statistical Demography and Forecasting

For statisticians the book provides a unique introduction to demographic problems in a familiar language. For demographers, ...

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