52:10001 Charter, S.
P. R. Chaos and creativity. ISBN 0-934710-10-4. LC
84-52592. 1984. ix, 182 pp. Joseph Simon: Malibu, California. In Eng.
This is a philosophical study of the present and future condition
of the world, in which consideration is given to the implications of
global population pressures, Roman Catholic attitudes toward population
questions, environmental degradation, and human
reproduction.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:10002 Japan.
Institute of Population Problems (Tokyo, Japan). An
outline of world population trends. Institute of Population
Problems Research Series, No. 232, Nov 15, 1984. iii, 131 pp. Tokyo,
Japan. In Jpn.
A review of global population trends is presented.
Chapters are included on spatial distribution, density, projections,
and population changes; a comparison of populations by level of
socioeconomic development; structural changes in population;
urbanization; international migration; and population policies.
Extensive statistical data are included in
appendixes.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:10003 Oskolkova,
O. B. Current demographic trends: developed capitalist
countries and developing countries. [Sovremennye demograficheskie
tendentsii: razvitye kapitalisticheskie i razvivayushchiesya strany.]
LC 85-109639. 1984. 156 pp. Izdatel'stvo Nauka: Moscow, USSR. In Rus.
The author reviews the major demographic trends in developed
capitalist countries during the last several decades. Emphasis is on
stabilization of population, aging, the problems of families, divorce
in Western countries, and population growth and demographic policies in
developing countries.
Location: U.S. Library of Congress,
Washington, D.C.
52:10004 Schaeffer,
Franky; Fickett, Harold. A modest proposal for peace,
prosperity and happiness. ISBN 0-8407-5407-8. LC 84-29509. 1984.
170 pp. Thomas Nelson: Nashville, Tennessee. In Eng.
This book
consists of a proposal developed by a fictional U.S. civil servant to
resolve current world problems. The proposal is a parody of the
secular humanism approach to the resolution of such problems as
overpopulation. The authors claim that their suggested solution, which
involves getting rid of unneeded people, is based on a logical
extension of actual proposals and current social
trends.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:10005 World
Health Organization [WHO] (Geneva, Switzerland). World
health statistics annual, 1985. [Annuaire de statistiques
sanitaires mondiales, 1985.] ISBN 92-4- 067851-4. 1985. xvii, 531 pp.
Geneva, Switzerland. In Eng; Fre.
This annual statistical
publication contains morbidity and mortality data for the countries of
the world. The data in this issue are grouped into four sections.
Section A presents a global overview, including projected infant
mortality rates for the year 2000. Section B contains vital statistics
and life tables, including natural increase, estimates and projections
of urban and rural populations up to the year 2000, late fetal and
infant mortality, and life expectancy, as well as fertility and
mortality. Section C is concerned with environmental
health.
Section D, which forms the bulk of this publication,
provides a country-by-country breakdown of deaths according to sex,
age, and up to 100 precise causes. A discussion of recent trends in
mortality by cause is included.
For a previous publication in this
series, published in 1983, see 50:10002.
Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:10006 Smolinski,
Zbigniew. Is the world threatened with
overpopulation? [Czy swiatu grozi przeludnienie?] Wiadomosci
Statystyczne, Vol. 30, No. 5, May 1985. 1-4 pp. Warsaw, Poland. In Pol.
Global population trends are reviewed. The author concludes that a
level of overpopulation is inevitable, not primarily because of
problems of food supply but because of the environmental degradation
that will result from population increases. The author suggests that
these environmental changes will lead to increases in mortality and
declines in fertility.
Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
52:10007 Watkins,
Susan C. Graphics in demography. Studies in Visual
Communication, Vol. 11, No. 3, Summer 1985. 2-21 pp. Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. In Eng.
The use of graphics in demography is
explored. The use of graphs to illustrate regularities and differences
in mortality and age composition is first considered. Next, their use
in the investigation of regularities and differences in marital
fertility and marriage is reviewed. Sections are also included on
differentials in general and on computer graphics. The author
concludes that graphs have played an important role both in the
presentation or illustration of demographic data and in the discovery
of new information through the process of pattern
finding.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:10008 Willekens,
Frans. Multiregional demography. Working Papers of
the NIDI, No. 59, Jun 1985. v, 48 pp. Netherlands Interuniversity
Demographic Institute [NIDI]: Voorburg, Netherlands. In Eng.
"The
paper reviews the origin and development of multiregional demography
and lists applications in studies of migration, nuptiality, morbidity,
labour market dynamics and in family demography and political
demography. A dominant feature of this subfield is the integration of
the processes of fertility, mortality and mobility. The types of
questions which multiregional demography addresses are discussed.
Models developed in this subfield are particularly suited for life
course analysis (micro-demography), the study of the dynamics of
interdependent subpopulations (macro-demography) and the analysis of
different types of flow data disaggregated by
age."
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:10009 Bryceson,
Deborah F.; Vuorela, Ulla. Outside the domestic labor
debate: towards a theory of modes of human reproduction. Review
of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 16, No. 2-3, Summer-Fall 1984.
137-66 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
The authors develop the
concept of "modes of human reproduction" and suggest that this concept,
posited at the same conceptual level as "modes of production", offers a
viable materialist framework for understanding sexual asymmetry both
historically and in different social systems existing at the present
time. The geographic focus is worldwide, although Finland and Tanzania
are used as examples to illustrate the concepts under consideration.
The relationships between women's disadvantaged social position and
women's childbearing role are analyzed, and the prospects for change,
including equal responsibility of both sexes in raising children, are
discussed.
Location: Princeton University Library (PF).
52:10010 Diez
Medrano, Juan. Results, dilemmas, and suggestions
concerning the demographic transition theory: causes of the decline of
fertility in the nineteenth century. [Resultados, dilemas y
sugerencias relativos a la teoria de la transicion demografica: causas
de la caida de la fecundidad en el siglo XIX.] Boletin de la Asociacion
de Demografia Historica, Vol. 3, No. 3, Nov 1985. 4-20 pp. Madrid,
Spain. In Spa.
The author reviews recent literature on the
demographic transition. He discusses the relative importance of
socioeconomic, cultural, ideological, technical, and demographic
factors; the question of whether the transition is more aptly termed an
adjustment or an innovation; and problems with the various theories
that have been advanced. He concludes by outlining his own theories
and gives suggestions for further study.
Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:10011 Duchene,
Josianne; Wunsch, Guillaume. Conceptual frameworks and
causal modeling. Departement de Demographie Working Paper, No.
128, Aug 1985. 25 pp. Universite Catholique de Louvain, Departement de
Demographie: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. In Eng.
Aspects of the
three- level model of theory building, involving a progression from
general theory to auxiliary theory to statistical models, are explored.
"In a first section, [the authors] define the various relationships
which can link concepts together, in a general theory. The second
section [discusses] the passage from concept to indicator, in a
conceptual framework approach. The third section considers a causal
model specifically designed to take into account both concepts and
indicators, i.e. covariance structure analysis. [The authors] use
throughout Caldwell's theory (1979) on the role of education as a
factor in mortality decline as an example."
Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:10012 Eckstein,
Zvi; Wolpin, Kenneth I. Endogenous fertility and optimal
population size. Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 27, No. 1, Jun
1985. 93-106 pp. Amsterdam, Netherlands. In Eng.
This study is
concerned with the concept of optimal population size. The authors
extend a generations growth model developed by Peter Diamond by
assuming that individuals derive utility from their own consumption and
their own children, and that offspring consume resources before
reaching adulthood. The endogenously determined fertility level in a
competitive economy is compared with the fertility level that maximizes
the steady state utility of a representative agent. The social
security program that would support the maximum utility at the steady
state in the competitive economy is outlined.
Location:
Princeton University Library (PF).
52:10013 Horvath,
Robert. The spread of Malthus's ideas on population and
their critical reception in Hungary up to World War I. [A Malthusi
nepesedesi eszmek megismerese es kritikai fogadtatasa Magyarorszagon az
I. vilaghaboruig bezarolag.] Demografia, Vol. 28, No. 1, 1985. 29-50
pp. Budapest, Hungary. In Hun. with sum. in Eng; Rus.
The spread to
Hungary of Malthus's ideas on population in the nineteenth century is
examined by means of a review of the published literature of the time.
The author notes that most Hungarian scholars were primarily concerned
with the need to repopulate the areas that had suffered from wars and
from the Turkish occupation. It is concluded that Malthusian theory
became a serious consideration of Hungarian scholars only in the period
immediately proceeding World War I.
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
52:10014 Laslett,
Peter. Gregory King, Robert Malthus and the origins of
English social realism. Population Studies, Vol. 39, No. 3, Nov
1985. 351-62 pp. London, England. In Eng.
This is a slightly
revised version of the David Glass Memorial Lecture given at the London
School of Economics and Political Sciences in London on November 28,
1984. The author compares Gregory King and Robert Malthus with respect
to their ability to penetrate the resistance of all structures to
objective analysis. He concludes that both approaches are necessary to
modern social scientists, especially to
demographers.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:10015 Liu,
Zheng. Problems in population theory. 1984. 317 pp.
Chinese Social Science Publishers: Beijing, China. In Chi.
This
book is based on the author's lectures and research undertaken during
the years 1974-1981 in nine Chinese provinces. Topics include
population theory and demography, reproduction, socialist population
principles, analysis of changes in population reproduction, population
and employment, population and per capita income, population and
capital investment, population forecasting, and China's population
policy.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:10016 Mackensen,
Rainer. Demography in transition.
[Bevolkerungswissenschaft im Umbau.] Zeitschrift fur
Bevolkerungswissenschaft, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1985. 193-218 pp. Wiesbaden,
Germany, Federal Republic of. In Ger. with sum. in Eng; Fre.
Some
recent publications from the Federal Republic of Germany that have been
significant in the development of population theory are presented.
Among the works reviewed, all of which reflect the sociological
tradition of demography, are ones authored by Mannheim, Marschalck,
Schmid, Hoffmann-Nowotny, and Linde. The article "concludes with a
critical retrospective concerning the development of the theory of
demography since 1930, the after-effects of which still do not seem to
have been completely cleared and resolved."
Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:10017 Schmid,
Josef. Demography: Gerhard Mackenroth's "Population
Theory"--30 years later. [Bevolkerungswissenschaft: die
"Bevolkerungslehre" von Gerhard Mackenroth--30 Jahre danach.] Campus
Forschung, Vol. 443, ISBN 3-593-33461- 5. 1985. 227 pp. Campus: New
York, New York/Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Federal Republic of. In Eng;
Fre; Ger.
This book contains papers presented at a symposium held
in Bamberg, Federal Republic of Germany, in September 1983. Most of
the papers are in German, with the exception of two in English and one
in French. The symposium focused on assessing the demographic work of
Gerhard Mackenroth, in particular his book "Bevolkerungslehre", which
was originally published in 1953.
Topics covered in the papers
include the origins of Mackenroth's theories; the work of Gunther Ipsen
and Adolphe Landry; attempts to reformulate Mackenroth's concept of
generational structure; and Mackenroth's work in relation to the
comparative sociology of population, the study of reproductive
behavior, and demography in Romania.
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
52:10018 Benjamin,
Bernard; Prothero, R. Mansell. The nature and scope of
population studies in the United Kingdom. Biology and Society,
Vol. 2, No. 2, Jun 1985. 55-109 pp. London, England. In Eng.
The
authors survey and summarize the nature and scope of population studies
in the United Kingdom, with the aim of improving communications among
academic disciplines and between academic and nonacademic groups
engaged in these studies. The roles of the fields of demography,
history, sociology, geography, economic and educational planning, human
genetics, and medicine in population studies in the United Kingdom are
summarized. Universities and other institutions with an interest in
population studies are listed and briefly described.
Observations
concerning the teaching of demography and official concern for
population issues are also presented. The authors conclude that
"whilst the multidisciplinary character of population studies can be
firmly established, the amount of interdisciplinary study is
undoubtedly limited."
Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
52:10019 Albagli,
Claude; Diakite, Suzanne. Aspects of African
demography. [Aspects de la demographie africaine.] ISBN
2-7236-0649-X. LC 85-165681. 1984. 71 pp. Nouvelles Editions
Africaines: Abidjan, Ivory Coast. In Fre.
This textbook is designed
as an introduction to the demography of Tropical Africa for use in
African schools. Topics covered include the presentation of countries
by population size and density; fertility, mortality, and population
growth; age distribution; family structure and education; labor force,
urban and rural population, economic activity, and migration; and
technological imperatives and demographic
structures.
Location: U.S. Library of Congress, Washington,
D.C.
52:10020 Gendreau,
Francis; Gubry, Francoise; Lohle-Tart, Louis; van de Walle, Etienne;
Waltisperger, Dominique. The Yaounde manual: indirect
estimation in African demography. [Manuel de Yaounde: estimations
indirectes en demographie africaine.] ISBN 2-87047-011-8. 1985. xv, 276
pp. International Union for the Scientific Study of Population [IUSSP]:
Liege, Belgium; Ordina Editions: Liege, Belgium. In Fre.
This
manual is designed as a practical tool for French-speaking demographers
primarily concerned with the demography of Africa. It was developed
during training sessions held at the Institut de Formation et de
Recherche Demographiques (IFORD) in Yaounde, Cameroon, in 1981.
Chapters are included on stable populations, the adjustment of
fertility data, life tables, the adjustment of mortality data,
migration, the evaluation of the quality of data on sex and age, the
adjustment of age distribution data, and population
projections.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:10021 Liu, Zheng;
Wu, Cangping; Cha, Shuichuan. Population statistics.
College Teaching Materials in the Humanities, 1983. 406 pp. Chinese
People's University: Beijing, China. In Chi.
Topics in this
textbook on population statistics include basic problems and aspects of
population statistics, data gathering, censuses, reproduction,
population theory, methods of analyzing the relationship between
population growth and economic development, and population statistics
of foreign countries. Demographic methodology, population density, sex
and age structure, urban-rural distribution, fertility, marriage,
family planning, mortality, migration, and population growth are also
discussed. The geographic focus is on China.
Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:10022 Poulalion,
Gabriel. The science of population. [La science de la
population.] Geographie Economique et Sociale, Vol. 17, ISBN
2-7111-0429-X. 1984. viii, 333 pp. Librairies Techniques: Paris,
France. In Fre.
This volume, one of a series on economic and social
geography, is an introductory demography textbook. The focus of the
first part of the book is on demography as a science, with discussions
covering sources of statistical information, the presentation of data
in graph form, and the mathematical measurement of demographic
phenomena. An overview of demographic history and the development of
demography as a science and a discipline are presented in the second
part. In the third part, the author discusses three general areas in
which demographic studies are currently involved: development
policies, population policies, and enviromental policies. The primary
geographical focus is on France.
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
52:10023 Wu,
Cangping; Ho, Wenruo. World population. 1983. 498 pp.
Chinese People's University: Beijing, China. In Chi.
Among the
topics concerning world population covered in this textbook are
historical development and the current situation; current natural
changes; the outlook for future developments; issues involving
economics, natural resources, and the environment; marriage, family,
and family planning in various countries; the world population of women
and children; population distribution; international migration;
urbanization; the population policies of individual countries;
demographic aging; and Chinese actions concerning population
problems.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
