Demography category: 971 books
Land Use, Climate Change and Biodiversity Modeling
Perspectives and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
How humans use terrestrial land affects the earth and all life forms on it. Biodiversity loss and climate change are consequences of the same inappropriate and careless uses of land that negatively impact ecosystems on a smaller scale. Land Use, Climate Change and Biodiversity Modeling: Perspectives...
Curbing Population Growth
An Insider’s Perspective on the Population Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Oscar Harkavy offers a unique insider's view of the fascinating world of population politics. Chapters trace the growth of the movement as well as the various foundations, governments, and intergovernmental organizations which were an integral part of it from its beginning in the 1950s, through its...
Inequalities in the UK
New Discourses, Evolutions and Actions
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This book addresses the question of the extent of and responses to inequalities in the UK in 2017 in the wake of the 2008 Great Recession. Inequality is the issue that won’t go away, a real world issue affecting all facets of society with political and economic developments such as austerity measures,...
by Virginia Deane Abernethy
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
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 numbers to the carrying capacity of the environment....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Circulation is common in Third World countries and involves reciprocal flows of people, goods and ideas. The essays in this volume, first published in1985, discuss concepts associated with circulation in its various forms, and they present empirical evidence based on field work from holistic, ecological,...
Population Control
Real Costs, Illusory Benefits
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
For over half a century, policymakers committed to population control have perpetrated a gigantic, costly, and inhumane fraud upon the human race. They have robbed people of the developing countries of their progeny and the people of the developed world of their pocketbooks. Determined to stop population...
Diverging Destinies
The Japanese Case
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
The overarching objective of this book is to summarize, extend, and update previous research on educational differences in family behavior in Japan. This is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject and the first to evaluate family differentials in Japan in the context of ideas articulated...
Irish Americans: The History and Culture of a People
The History and Culture of a People
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Virtually every aspect of American culture has been influenced by Irish immigrants and their descendants. This encyclopedia tells the full story of the Irish-American experience, covering immigration, assimilation, and achievement.
• Demonstrates the intricate—and far-reaching—nature...
Active Ageing
Solidarity and Responsibility in an Ageing Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Current demographic changes are a major factor in the increasing societal interest in the contributions older generations can make to the development and cohesion of society. This Centre for European Studies study argues that the traditional view of ageing is gradually being replaced by a new perspective,...
Transformative Student Experiences in Higher Education
Meeting the Needs of the Twenty-First Century Student and Modern Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Transformative Student Experiences in Higher Education: Meeting the Needs of the 21st Century Student and Modern Workplace presents a thorough consideration of the role, use, and implications of transformative and active instructional strategies in higher education. It examines the changing landscape...
Living on Thin Ice
The Gwich'in Natives of Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The Gwich’in Natives of Arctic Village, Alaska, have experienced intense social and economic changes for more than a century. In the late 20th century, new transportation and communication technologies introduced radically new value systems; while some of these changes may be seen as socially beneficial,...
Mobile Information Communication Technologies Adoption in Developing Countries
Effects and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
The mobile technology field is expanding with innovative research and discoveries that expand to all walks of life. Mobile technology may have its greatest impact in the developing world, because it brings telecommunication to districts that had never been reached before. Mobile Information Communication...
HIV/AIDS in South Africa 25 Years On
Psychosocial Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Much has happened since the first appearance of AIDS in 1981: it has been identified, studied, and occasionally denied. The virus has shifted host populations and spread globally. Medicine, the social sciences, and world governments have joined forces to combat and prevent the disease. And South Africa...
Internal Migration
Geographical Perspectives and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Over the last two decades there have been numerous profound changes in UK society which have had an impact on the scale, geographies, meaning and experiences of internal migration. Providing a critical appraisal of migration scholarship from the perspective of Geography, reviewing theory, substantive...