59:40001 Parkes,
Alan S.; Dennis, Frances. Backlash: a biologist looks at
problems of population and the environment. ISBN 0-907232-08-6.
1993. xiii, 223 pp. Parkes Foundation: Cambridge, England. In Eng.
This is a general look at global population problems and their
environmental consequences. The first four chapters describe the
present situation and how it occurred. The next five chapters look at
traumas that mankind has so far survived such as famine, malnutrition,
disease, non-infective hazards, war, and natural disaster. The next
three chapters cover biosocial factors affecting human numbers,
followed by five chapters examining the consequences of increasing
population size and changing technology including the decrease in
living space, pressures on wildlife, soil degradation, forest erosion,
and resource depletion. The final section, entitled "the backlash of
sophistication" examines such issues as waste and sewage,
agro-chemicals, air pollution, and other man-made
problems.
Correspondence: University of Cambridge,
Department of Biological Anthropology, Parkes Foundation, Downing
Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, England. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
59:40002 Veron,
Jacques. The arithmetic of humans: demography between
science and politics. [Arithmetique de l'homme: la demographie
entre science et politique.] Science Ouverte, ISBN 2-02-013449-7. Sep
1993. 237 pp. Editions du Seuil: Paris, France. In Fre.
This volume
is concerned with the study of demography and with how the results of
demographic research can be applied to the resolution of problems in
society. The author notes that demography is expected to contribute to
the debate on a number of sensitive social issues, such as immigration,
health costs, and demographic aging, and that such contributions are
not simply quantitative but must take into account complex social
situations. Aspects considered include the implication of rapid rates
of population growth in developing countries, overpopulation, female
labor force participation, migration, and urbanization. The use and
misuse of demographic data in the debate over various political issues
is examined.
Correspondence: Editions du Seuil, 27 rue
Jacob, Paris 6, France. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
59:40003 Bogue,
Donald J. How Demography was born. Demography, Vol.
30, No. 4, Nov 1993. 519-21 pp. Washington, D.C. In Eng.
The author
outlines the history of the journal
Demography.
Correspondence: D. J. Bogue, University of
Chicago, Department of Sociology, Chicago, IL 60637.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
59:40004 Crimmins,
Eileen M. Demography: the past 30 years, the present, and
the future. Demography, Vol. 30, No. 4, Nov 1993. 579-91 pp.
Washington, D.C. In Eng.
The author reviews trends in the field of
demography. "I will begin with an assessment of past changes. Then I
will discuss what the present indicates for the future....To do this, I
will address four facets of the field: how and where demography is
done, the type of data employed, the methods used, and finally the
theoretical approach and the questions addressed." The role of the
journal Demography in the coverage of the field is also
discussed.
Correspondence: E. M. Crimmins, University of
Southern California, Andrus Gerontology Center, Los Angeles, CA
90089-0191. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
59:40005 Dumont,
Gerard-Francois. World population in the twentieth
century. [La population mondiale au XXe siecle.] Defense
Nationale, Vol. 49, No. 4, Apr 1993. 19-35 pp. Paris, France. In Fre.
Current global population trends are summarized. The author
briefly examines the demographic transition, trends in urbanization,
and regional differences in population
dynamics.
Correspondence: G.-F. Dumont, Universite de Paris
I, 12 place du Pantheon, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
59:40006 Hermalin,
Albert I. Fertility and family planning among the elderly
in Taiwan, or integrating the demography of aging into population
studies. Demography, Vol. 30, No. 4, Nov 1993. 507-18 pp.
Washington, D.C. In Eng.
This is the text of the author's
presidential address, presented at the 1993 Annual Meeting of the
Population Association of America. He discusses the "challenges and
opportunities to [demography] in terms of both substantive issues and
research strategies, as we give greater attention to research on aging
in the years ahead....Specifically, I plan to point up several areas of
ongoing population research in which potentially interesting
connections can be forged with the demography of aging; to indicate
several direct and low-cost expansions of current practices which would
greatly enhance our knowledge in the demography of aging and would
enrich the research potential; and, finally, to suggest several
substantive and methodological arenas in which research on aging may
challenge our current ways of thinking."
Correspondence: A.
I. Hermalin, University of Michigan, Population Studies Center, 1225
South University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2590. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
59:40007 Keyfitz,
Nathan. Thirty years of demography and Demography.
Demography, Vol. 30, No. 4, Nov 1993. 533-49 pp. Washington, D.C. In
Eng.
"This article will say something about the [directions the
field of demography and the journal Demography have] taken, and end by
asking the reader whether we have gone too far in the direction of
methodology and empiricism."
Correspondence: N. Keyfitz,
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 2361 Laxenburg,
Austria. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
59:40008 Preston,
Samuel H. The contours of demography: estimates and
projections. Demography, Vol. 30, No. 4, Nov 1993. 593-606 pp.
Washington, D.C. In Eng.
"This paper considers the scope of
demography and the various research approaches that legitimately could
claim the label....International health is cited as an area of
increased demographic presence; reasons for this development are
explored....Taking a demand-oriented approach, the paper identifies
several promising research areas in which demographers will be called
on to address issues of national and international
concern."
Correspondence: S. H. Preston, University of
Pennsylvania, Population Studies Center, Philadelphia, PA 19174.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
59:40009 Teachman,
Jay D.; Paasch, Kathleen; Carver, Karen P. Thirty years of
Demography. Demography, Vol. 30, No. 4, Nov 1993. 523-32 pp.
Washington, D.C. In Eng.
"In this paper, we present a content
analysis of Demography, the official journal of the Population
Association of America. Our results reflect patterns of change and
stability in a number of areas, including: subjects covered, number of
authors, gender of authors, type of data used, sources of data used,
affiliation of authors and statistical procedures employed. The data
suggest that the field of population research has become increasingly
bureaucratized and complex, while at the same time continuing to focus
on familiar research subjects. A relatively small number of population
research centers contribute disproportionately to the
journal."
Correspondence: J. D. Teachman, University of
Maryland, Department of Sociology, Center on Population, Gender and
Social Inequality, College Park, MD 20742-1315. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
59:40010 Watkins,
Susan C. If all we knew about women was what we read in
Demography what would we know? Demography, Vol. 30, No. 4, Nov
1993. 551-77 pp. Washington, D.C. In Eng.
The author explores the
question, "what does [the journal] Demography indicate about the way we
as a scientific community, as authors, reviewers, and readers,
understand women? Although I focus on women, my question is also about
gender, our shared understandings of what it means to be female and
what it means to be male, and how these influence our research....To a
surprising degree, our research draws on what we take for granted about
women, men, and the relations between them in order to pose our
research questions, to collect our data, and to interpret our results.
I identify areas in which I think a more explicit as well as a more
informed consideration of gender relations in the societies we study
would probably result in a better understanding of demographic
behavior, and I give examples from Demography that I believe point in
productive directions."
Correspondence: S. C. Watkins,
University of Pennsylvania, Population Studies Center, Philadelphia, PA
19174. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
59:40011 Domanski,
Ryszard. Sudden changes in demographic processes: two
applications of catastrophic theory. Geographia Polonica, No. 59,
1992. 55-67 pp. Warsaw, Poland. In Eng.
The author examines the
susceptibility of certain demographic trends to sudden change, using
the examples of rural-urban migration in Poland and the effect of a
large city (Poznan) on its smaller neighbors. The relevance of
catastrophe theory to the study of demographic change is
discussed.
Correspondence: R. Domanski, Academy of
Economics, Poznan, Poland. Location: Princeton University
Library (FST).
59:40012 Mason,
Karen O. Culture and the fertility transition: thoughts
on theories of fertility decline. Genus, Vol. 48, No. 3-4, Jul-Dec
1992. 1-14 pp. Rome, Italy. In Eng. with sum. in Fre; Ita.
"This
paper attempts to clarify current thinking about the causes of
fertility transition by noting that there is implicitly more than one
question that can be asked under this rubric, with the answer to
different questions not necessarily being the same; that there are
distracting confusions involving such terms as 'cultural',
'ideational', 'diffusion', and 'fertility regulation' in recent
discussions of the causes of the fertility transition; and that much of
the evidence marshalled to support the ideational/diffusion/fertility
regulation view of fertility is ambiguous."
Correspondence:
K. O. Mason, East-West Center, Program in Population, 1777 East-West
Road, Honolulu, HI 96848. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
59:40013 McNicoll,
Geoffrey. Malthusian scenarios and demographic
catastrophism. Population Council Research Division Working Paper,
No. 49, 1993. 30 pp. Population Council: New York, New York. In Eng.
The author compares the contrasting views of ecologists and social
scientists with regard to the course of current and future global
population change.
Correspondence: Population Council,
Research Division, One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY 10017.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
59:40014 Waterman,
A. M. C. Analysis and ideology in Malthus's Essay on
Population. Australian Economic Papers, Vol. 31, No. 58, Jun 1992.
203-17 pp. Adelaide, Australia. In Eng.
The author develops the
argument that Robert Malthus's Essay on Population was primarily
intended to refute the ideas of human perfectibility advanced by
Condorcet and Godwin, and in particular as a response to their attacks
on the concept of property. A reconstruction of Malthus's economic
analysis is attempted in order to capture in mathematical form what his
production function would have been, and to analyze the relationship
between population growth and food supply.
Correspondence:
A. M. C. Waterman, St John's College, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2M5,
Canada. Location: Princeton University Library (PF).
59:40015 Zavala de
Cosio, Maria E. The demographic transition in Latin
America and Europe. [La transicion demografica en America Latina y
en Europa.] Notas de Poblacion, Vol. 20, No. 56, Dec 1992. 11-32 pp.
Santiago, Chile. In Spa. with sum. in Eng.
The author reviews two
demographic transition models for Latin America. The first is similar
to Europe's modern reproductive patterns. The other applies to women
with traditional reproductive behaviors, including early marriage and
high fertility. The implications of each model for future fertility
decline and economic growth are discussed.
Correspondence:
M. E. Zavala de Cosio, Universite de Paris X, 200 Avenue de la
Republique, 92001 Nanterre Cedex, France. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
59:40016 Findlay,
Allan M. Population geography: disorder, death and future
directions. Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 17, No. 1, Mar 1993.
73-83 pp. Sevenoaks, England. In Eng.
This is one in a series of
reports on research trends in population geography. The author
suggests that recent political changes concerning the breakup of the
former Soviet Union and a possible decline in concern among developed
countries about the problems of developing ones should affect the
research agenda. Particular attention is given to studies done on
differential mortality and internal migration in developed
countries.
For a previous report, published in 1992, see 58:30014.
Correspondence: A. M. Findlay, University of Glasgow,
Applied Population Research Unit, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland.
Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
59:40017 Kojima,
Hiroshi. The place of demography in Durkheim's system of
sociology. Jinko Mondai Kenkyu/Journal of Population Problems,
Vol. 47, No. 4, Jan 1992. 35-9 pp. Tokyo, Japan. In Jpn.
The author
examines the role of demography in Emile Durkheim's system of
sociology, basing his approach on that of the scholar Jacques
Bertillon.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
59:40018 Low, Bobbi
S. Ecological demography: a synthetic focus in
evolutionary anthropology. Evolutionary Anthropology, 1993. 177-87
pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
"Ecological demography arises from
two facts: that the reproductive behavior of humans, like that of
other species, is influenced by natural selection and that current
fitness is the product of both genotype and environment. Here I review
classic atheoretical and recent theoretical studies that contribute to
this emerging field, exploring the extent to which human reproductive
responses to ecological conditions, considered in their broadest
context, follow the same selective rules as other
species."
Correspondence: B. S. Low, University of
Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment, Ann Arbor, MI
48109. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
59:40019 Meehan,
Betty; White, Neville. Hunter-gatherer demography: past
and present. Oceania Monograph, No. 39, ISBN 0-86758-491-2. 1990.
viii, 196 pp. University of Sydney, Oceania Publications: Sydney,
Australia. In Eng.
This publication contains 15 papers on the
demography of hunter-gatherer populations. The papers were presented
at the Fifth International Conference on Hunting and Gathering
Societies held in Darwin, Australia, in August-September, 1988, and are
grouped into two sections: the first involving the reconstruction of
past populations and the second concerned with the demography of
contemporary populations of hunters and gatherers. Most of the papers
deal with populations in Australia.
Correspondence:
University of Sydney, Oceania Committee, Oceania Publications, 116
Darlington Road, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
59:40020 Roth, Eric
A. A reexamination of Rendille population regulation.
American Anthropologist, Vol. 95, No. 3, Sep 1993. 597-611 pp.
Arlington, Virginia. In Eng.
The author uses anthropological data
to analyze the existence of cultural practices that effectively limit
fertility among the Rendille pastoralists of northern Kenya. "Analysis
reveals that the Rendille cultural institution of sepaade, in which
females of a specific cyclical age-set delay their age at marriage,
significantly reduces fertility and population growth rates. However,
this practice is not intended as a means of population-resource
equilibrium. Furthermore, Rendille cognizance of and emphasis on the
negative demographic concomitants of sepaade suggest that the tradition
was adopted despite, rather than because of its dampening of population
growth."
Correspondence: E. R. Roth, University of
Victoria, Department of Anthropology, P.O. Box 3050, Victoria, British
Columbia V8W 3P5, Canada. Location: Princeton University
Library (PR).
59:40021 Bogue,
Donald J.; Arriaga, Eduardo E.; Anderton, Douglas L.; Rumsey, George
W. Readings in population research methodology. ISBN
1-884211-01-1. 1993. United Nations Population Fund [UNFPA]: New York,
New York; Social Development Center: Chicago, Illinois. In Eng.
This publication, which is in eight volumes, attempts to put
together a complete reference source covering the full range of
population research methodology. "It is designed to satisfy as
completely as possible the methodological needs for both the training
of students at beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels, and for
expanding the methodological horizons of all demographers." Volume 1
deals with the basic tools of demography, including measurement of
population size, composition, and distribution; birth, death, marriage,
and migration rates; sources of demographic data; evaluation of data
quality; correction, graduation, and interpolation of population data;
and standardization and decomposition of group differences. Volume 2
is concerned with mortality and Volume 3 with fertility. Volume 4
deals with nuptiality, migration, household, and family research.
Volume 5 examines population models, projections, and estimates. Volume
6 is about advanced basic tools, including survival and event history
methods, multistate methods, contextual and multi-level methods, and
techniques for qualitative analysis. Volume 7 focuses on contraception
and family planning, and Volume 8 on the environment and economic
issues.
Correspondence: Social Development Center, 1313
East 60th Street, Suite 67, Chicago, IL 60637. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
59:40022 Brunswic,
Etienne. Population education. [Education en matiere
de population.] International Review of Education/Internationale
Zeitschrift fur Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de
Pedagogie, Vol. 39, No. 1-2, Mar 1993. 157 pp. Unesco Institute for
Education: Hamburg, Germany; Kluwer Academic: Hingham,
Massachusetts/Dordrecht, Netherlands. In Eng; Fre.
This special
issue concerns aspects of population education. The 23 articles are in
English or French and are divided into five sections. Following a
general introduction to population problems in the context of the
twenty-first century, the sections concern whether such problems can
form the subject of educational action, the content of population
education, the societal context of population education, examples in
action, and notes on activities. The geographical scope of the
collection is worldwide.
Correspondence: Unesco Institute
for Education, Feldbrunnenstrasse 58, 2000 Hamburg 13, Germany.
Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
59:40023 Hornby,
William F.; Jones, Melvyn. An introduction to population
geography. 2nd ed. ISBN 0-521-42360-0. 1993. 172 pp. Cambridge
University Press: New York, New York/Cambridge, England. In Eng.
This is a revised and updated edition of a textbook on population
geography. The textbook is written for students of geography at the
advanced high school or introductory undergraduate level. Two major
population concepts are considered, population growth and distribution,
and migration. These two concepts are examined and illustrated using
examples from developed and developing countries.
For the first
edition, published in 1980, see 47:2034.
Correspondence:
Cambridge University Press, Pitt Building, Trumpington Street,
Cambridge CB2 1RP, England. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
59:40024 Rachidi,
Mohamed. Demography: analysis, practice, and policies.
Volume 1: analysis. [Demographie: analyse, pratique et
politiques. Tome 1: analyse.] 1992. 136 pp. Imprimerie Najah El
Jadida: Casablanca, Morocco. In Fre.
This is an introductory
textbook to demography, focusing on Morocco. It includes chapters on
data sources, spatial distribution, population characteristics,
mortality, fertility, the labor force, and population
projections.
Correspondence: Imprimerie Najah El Jadida,
Casablanca, Morocco. Location: Institut National d'Etudes
Demographiques, Paris, France.
59:40025
Weiss-Altaner, Eric. The principles of political
demography: population, urbanization, and development. [Principes
de demographie politique: population, urbanisation et developpement.]
Collection CEDI, ISBN 2-7178-2291-7. 1992. ix, 247 pp. Economica:
Geneva, Switzerland. In Eng.
This study is concerned with the
relationship between population and development, with a focus on how
policy can affect this relationship. It is designed primarily as an
undergraduate-level text book. The first part examines demographic
trends in the context of social reproduction. The second part looks at
population trends as a whole, as well as at mortality, fertility, and
migration, and gives consideration to urbanization. The work concludes
with an attempt to spell out the principles of political demography.
The geographical scope is worldwide.
Correspondence:
Economica, 72 rue de Lausanne, 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland.
Location: Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques, Paris,
France.
