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Statistical Demography and Forecasting
Juha Alho
Paperback - $105.95
Sustainability of pension systems, intergeneration fiscal equity under population aging, and accounting for health care benefits for future retirees are examples of problems that cannot be solved without understanding the nature of population forecas ...
Fifty Years of Change on the U.S.-Mexico Border : Growth, Development, and Quality of Life
Joan B. Anderson
Paperback - $52.95
The U.S. and Mexican border regions have experienced rapid demographic and economic growth over the last fifty years. In this analysis, Joan Anderson and James Gerber offer a new perspective on the changes and tensions pulling at the border from both ...
Women, Population and Global Crisis : A Political-Economic Analysis
Asoka Bandarage
Paperback - $70.95
It has been widely assumed that over-population is one of the root causes of global crisis; even amongst feminist and environmental movements, the common wisdom on population has never been seriously critiqued. This book provides that critique; it gi ...
The Methods and Uses of Anthropological Demography (Isd)
Alaka Basu
Hardcover - $458.95
This volume takes stock of the current status of the comparatively new discipline of "Anthropological Demography," and discusses its major methods, its main strengths, and its chief limitations. It includes contributions from both mainstream demograp ...
Inevitable Aging? : Contributions to Evolutionary-Demographic Theory
Annette Baudisch
Hardcover - $188.95
Aging is inevitable: this is gerontological dogma. And humans do inevitably grow old, which is probably why it seems so unlikely to us that other forms of life could escape aging. Escaping aging is not escaping death. Death is an inherent part of lif ...
Causes, Correlates and Consequences of Death Among Older Adults : Some Methodological Approaches and Substantive Analyses
Jere R. Behrman
Hardcover - $277.95
Why are there differences in life expectancies among various demographic groups? Why have these changes in life expectancies occurred? Many reasons are given in the popular and more scholarly literatures. Causes, Correlates and Consequences of Death ...