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Encompassing the areas of economics, sociology, social biology and genetics, and drawing on studies from the UK and Australia, this volume charts and analyses the factors affecting population growth. Chapters include: * The international decline in fertility * The changing structure of the family * Educational opportunities * Concepts of race. ... Read more

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"This is a tour de force in cohort fertility analysis, a deep and powerful piece of work. It is a striking demonstration of the force of really detailed empirical analysis of excellent and comprehensive data, with the data looked at from every angle and judiciously extrapolated into the future. It represents a major contribution to our understanding of contemporary low fertility in Europe and other developed nations..."
Thomas K. Burch, University of Victoria, BC, Canada ... Read more

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About The Fertility
this book talks about fertility.
Low-fertility becomes a global problem,we should pay more attention on it!
This book can used to a text book.
For teachers to teach their students.
Let more people know population is the basic root for the country.
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This timely reference brings together the world's leading scholars and researchers to integrate wildlife toxicology and population modeling and to advance the field of ecological risk assessment of agricultural-chemical use. The book examines the foundation of ecological modeling and its application in assessing the ecological risk of agricultural chemical use. State-of-the-art techniques and methods of ecological modeling have been compiled to provide insight into what must be done to minimize the impact of agricultural chemicals and other toxic substances on the environment. Wildlife Toxicology and Population Modeling is encyclopedic in coverage, presenting useful tools for environmental decision making and the latest in the theory and application of the science. ... Read more

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The study of population and social change in Israeli society reveals the extensive transformations experienced in that country over the past several decades. This volume brings together new research studies reflecting the variety of complex issues now shaping the socioeconomic and demographic development of this society. Of particular interest are the discussions of the ways in which ethnic-immigrant groups have influenced demographic and social changes and, in turn, how these changes have had an impact on the assimilation of Israeli ethnic-immigrant groups. Among the major themes examined are immigration to Israel in the context of world Jewish demographic changes, the impact of recent immigration from the Soviet Union on both the Arab and Jewish populations, and analysis linking ethnicity, nation-building and demography. ... Read more

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The first aim of Transitions to Adulthood in Europe is todescribe the similarities and differences in the timing and kind oftransition among the post-war cohorts in Austria, Britain, Flanders(Belgium), France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland,and Spain. A comparative description allows consideration of whethertrends across Europe are converging or whether inter-countrydifferences persist. A second aim of this volume is to bring togetherthe results of individual-level studies from these ten Europeancountries, analysing the impact of selected determinants on thetransition to adulthood. The focus in particular is on those factorsthat gave rise to the Second Demographic Transition. Almost allstudies make use of the Fertility and Family Survey data, asurvey co-ordinated in the 1990s by the Population Activities Unit ofthe Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations. Comparingthe results of these country-specific analyses sheds an intriguinglight on the various ways in which these determinants operate indifferent economic and cultural contexts. ... Read more

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This volume focuses on fertility and family transitions in selected Third World countries, exploring critical aspects of the relationship between population and development. The essays examine population processes as they unfold and develop over time, highlighting the need to go beyond economic explanations and identifying the priorities among social structural and cultural factors. Several of the contributors discuss the changing roles of women and the family, which provides an important context for understanding demographic transitions. The book concludes with an examination of the implications of fertility and family patterns now emerging in Third World countries in the context of population planning and development policies. ... Read more

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This book assembles researchers in demography, statistics, political science, sociology, anthropology, history, geography, economics and law to offer fresh insight on the demographic causes and consequences of armed conflict. Cause studies consider migration, ethnicity, population growth and youth bulges. Studies on consequences of conflict include mortality from conflict, casualty estimation for prosecution of war crimes, and case studies of conflicts in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cambodia, Kenya, Mali, Rwanda, Sudan and Uganda.

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This book analyses a peculiar phase in the history of Stockholm which has not previously been systematically investigated. Between 1750 and 1850 the Swedish capital experienced long-term stagnation, characterized by de-industrialization and slow population growth. In this study various aspects of the economic and social history of the period are examined in detail, including the decline of manufacturing, the causes of the extremely high rates of mortality and extra-marital fertility, and the distribution of economic resources. Social and spatial patterns of poverty are described and the trends and fluctuations in prices and real wages charted and compared with other European towns and cities. ... Read more

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This book reviews recent observations of non-evolved and evolved binary populations in clusters and the field with special emphasis on statistical biases, incompleteness, and distribution functions. It considers different binary types and presents and discusses recent results in the field.

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Susannah Ottaway combines a comprehensive survey of existing literature on the history of ageing with original interpretation and analysis of available data. Using a wide variety of sources (literature, correspondence, poor house and workhouse documents and diaries), Ottaway's account of the experiences of the aged reveals attitudes in eighteenth-century England that shed light on contemporary aging issues by historical comparison. ... Read more

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This book is the first full-length analysis of the London working population and the effects of the industrial revolution in London to appear for over sixty years.Prior to the mid-nineteenth century London may not have experienced the direct effects of the industrial revolution to any great extent, but the indirect effects were felt strongly.L. D. Schwarz disagrees with the view that "The industrial revolution was a storm that passed over London and broke elsewhere," and seeks to judge the effect of industrialization on what was the country's largest manufacturing city.Its size and role as national capital meant that London was in certain important respects unique, but it was nonetheless susceptible to many of the wider economic transformations that occurred during the period 1700-1850, and Dr. Schwarz offers a detailed analysis of the changes to the economy and social structure of London these wrought. ... Read more