Product Description: One of the most significant occurrences of this century has been the drastic decline in many countries of tragically high death and birth rates. In this collection, leading demographers, anthropologists, sociologists, and historians examine the causes of this transition and the reasons why many other countries have not followed suit...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The move from large extended families towards the nuclear family already prevalent in the West is one of the most notable demographic trends of the 20th Century. In exploring this "fertility transition" this volume investigates and explains the impact that changing cultural and moral beliefs have had on fertility practice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Current population growth is leading to a depletion in natural resources and could eventually cause irreversible damage to the environment. This book attempts to explain trends in the growth of the global population and the ecological consequences by blending the insights of analytical economics and behavioral ecology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A senior follow at the New America Foundation makes the controversial argument that low fertility rates and global aging threaten the global economy and make the industrialized nations of the West vulnerable to fundamentalism. 30,000 first printing.

The 20th century was the century of explosive population growth, resulting in unprecedented impacts; in contrast, the 21st century is likely to see the end of world population growth and become the century of population aging. We are currently at the crossroads of these demographic regimes. This book presents fresh evidence about our demographic future and provides a new framework for understanding the underlying unity in this diversity. It is an invaluable resource for those concerned with the implications of population change in the 21st century. The End of World Population Growth in the 21st Century is the first volume in a new series on Population and Sustainable Development. The series provides fresh ways of thinking about population trends and impacts.

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Product Description: What is the impact of demographics on the prospective production of military power and the causes of war? This monograph analyzes this issue by projecting working-age populations through 2050; assessing the influence of demographics on manpower, national income and expenditures, and human capital; and examining how changes in these factors may affect the ability of states to carry out military missions...read more

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Product Description: Global population aging is an inevitable feature of the final stages of the demographic transition, a worldwide combination of low fertility and low mortality that result in older, more slowly growing (or even shrinking) populations...read more

Examines the power and effect over time of major changes in strategies and opportunities for investment, and explains how to use this understanding to create a personal investment portfolio.

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Product Description: Pension systems in most industrialised countries are unfunded, i.e. they are pay-as-you-go financed and thus depend on a well-balanced ratio (old) recipients to (young) contributors. This so-called dependency ratio will worsen significantly in the next few decades due to two developments: ageing of the population and increased labour mobility...read more

Product Description: Derived from a conference held by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Populations, these papers are extremely wide-ranging and explore a variety of ways in which the position of women in a culture affects, or is itself affected by, demographic patterns of population change...read more