TY  - BOOK
AU  - Trovato,Frank
TI  - Population and society: essential readings 
SN  - 9780195439786 :
AV  - HB871 .P653 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Don Mills, Ont.
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Population
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; SECTION ONE THE STUDY OF POPULATION; 1. The Space and Strategy of Demographic Growth; MASSIMO LIVI-BACCI; 2. How Do We Know the Facts of Demography?; NATHAN KEYFITZ; SECTION TWO DEMOGRAPHIC PROCESSES AND INDIVIDUAL ACTION; 3. The Structure of Demographic Action; THOMAS K. BURCH; 4. Illustrating Behavioural Principles with Examples from Demography: The Causal Analysis of Differences in Fertility; LINCOLN DAY; SECTION THREE WORLD POPULATION: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE; 5. The Rising Numbers of Humankind; JOEL BIRABEN; 6. The Demographic Transition: Three Centuries of Fundamental Change; RONALD LEE; SECTION FOUR AGE COMPOSITION; 7. How a Population Ages or Grows Younger; ANSLEY J. COALE; 8. The Coming Acceleration of Global Population Aging; WOLFGANG LUTZ, WARREN SANDERSON, AND SERGEI SCHERBOV; SECTION FIVE NUPTIALITY AND FAMILY PATTERNS; 9. Changes in Conjugal Life in Canada: Is Cohabitation Progressively Replacing Marriage?; CELINE LE BOURDAIS AND EVELYNE LAPIERRE-ADAMCYK; 10. The Role of Cohabitation in Family Formation: The United States in Comparative Perspective; PATRICK HEUVELINE AND JEFFREY M. TIMBERLAKE; SECTION SIX FERTILITY; 11. Fertility, Biology, and Behaviour: An Analysis of the Proximate Determinants; JOHN BONGAARTS AND ROBERT G. POTTER; 12. Low Fertility in Evolutionary Perspective; KINGSLEY DAVIS; 13. Explanations of the Fertility Crisis in Modern Societies: A Search for Commonalities; JOHN C. CALDWELL AND THOMAS SCHINDLMAYR; 14. Fertility Transitions in Developing Countries: Progress or Stagnation?; JOHN BONGAARTS; SECTION SEVEN MORTALITY AND HEALTH; 15. Human Mortality throughout History and Prehistory; SAMUEL H. PRESTON; 16. Aging Populations: The Challenges Ahead; KAARE CHRISTENSEN, GABRIELE DOBLHAMMER, ROLAND RAU, AND JAMES W. VAUPEL; 17. Social Determinants of Health Inequalities; MICHAEL MARMOT; 18. Narrowing Sex Differentials in Life Expectancy in the Industrialized World: Early 1970s to Early 1990s; FRANK TROVATO AND N.M. LALU; SECTION EIGHT MIGRATION AND URBANIZATION; 19. The Hypothesis of the Mobility Transition; WILBUR ZELINSKY; 20. Population Distribution and Redistribution of the Baby-Boom Cohort in the United States: Recent Trends and Implications; PETER A. ROGERSON AND DAEJONG KIM; 21. The Age of Migration; STEPHEN CASTLES AND MARK A. MILLER; SECTION NINE POPULATION, ENVIRONMENT, AND RESOURCES; 22. The Debate over the Effects of Population Growth on Economic Growth; DAVID E. BLOOM, DAVID CANNING, AND JAYPEE SEVILLA; 23. Revisiting the Limits to Growth after Peak Oil; CHARLES A.S. HALL AND JOHN W. DAY JR; 24. The Geography of Poverty and Wealth; GEOFFREY D. SACHS, ANDREW D. MELLINGER, AND JOHN L. GALLUP; SECTION TEN POPULATION POLICY CONCERNS; 25. The Impact of Family Policies on Fertility in Industrialized Countries: A Review of the Literature; ANNE GAUTHIER; 26. Making Family Planning Accessible in Resource-Poor Settings; NDOLA PRATA
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