61:10001
Graham-Smith, Francis. Population--the complex
reality: a report of the Population Summit of the world's scientific
academies. ISBN 0-85403-484-6. LC 94-14992. 1994. xi, 404 pp.
Royal Society: London, England; North American Press: Golden, Colorado.
In Eng.
"The [1993] New Delhi Summit was convened to explore the
complex and interrelated issues of population growth, resource
consumption, socioeconomic development, and environmental protection.
The 25 papers presented at the Summit and published in this volume
[are] grouped under the headings of The Complex Reality; Linkages
between Population, Natural Resources and the Environment; Demographic
Transition in a Gender Perspective; Family Planning and Reproductive
Health; and The Future....The 25 papers published here reflect a truly
multifaceted and complex situation, in which the only common theme is
the pressure of a rapidly increasing world population."
Selected
items will be cited in this or subsequent issues of Population
Index.
Correspondence: Royal Society, 6 Carlton House
Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, England. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
61:10002 Maksimovic,
Ivan. Contributions to demographic and economic sciences.
Collection of papers dedicated to the life and work of academician
Milos Macura. [Prilozi demografskim i ekonomiskim naukama.
Zbornik radova posveden zivotu i radu akademika Milosha Matsure.]
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Monographs, Department of Social
Sciences, Vol. 103, ISBN 86-7025-192-2. 1994. 362 pp. Serbian Academy
of Sciences and Arts, Department of Social Sciences: Belgrade,
Yugoslavia. In Eng; Fre; Scc.
This is a collection of studies
dedicated to the Yugoslav demographer Milos Macura. The 25 papers
included, which are in Serbo-Croatian, English, and French, are
organized into three sections. The first includes 14 papers on general
demographic topics such as fertility, family planning, mortality, and
nuptiality, and is global in geographical focus. The second section
contains 7 papers that focus on the economy of Yugoslavia. The third
section has 4 papers of general interest.
Correspondence:
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Department of Social Sciences,
Knez Mihajilova 29, 11000 Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10003 Rao, K.
Vaninadha; Wicks, Jerry W. Studies in applied
demography. ISBN 0-944244-02-5. 1994. xi, 476 pp. Bowling Green
State University, Department of Sociology, Population and Society
Research Center: Bowling Green, Ohio. In Eng.
"This volume combines
28 selected papers from the 1990 and 1992 International Conferences on
Applied Demography....The papers in this volume reflect the diversity
of research interests and practice of applied demography: estimating
housing and employment for small geographic areas, the role of
demographers in legal proceedings, economic and demographic
determinants of child care choice, estimates of poverty in New York
state counties, evaluation of the accuracy of 1990 population
estimates, selection of migration rates in local area population
projections, changing demographics of household vehicle ownership, the
differential impact Canadian and U.S. census coverage has on small area
of population estimates, [and the] evaluation of ZIP+4 market
segmentation systems."
Selected items will be cited in this or
subsequent issues of Population Index.
Correspondence:
Bowling Green State University, Department of Sociology, Population and
Society Research Center, Bowling Green, OH 43403-0231.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10004 Sagrera,
Martin. Population crisis. ISBN 84-404-7822-4. 1994.
87 pp. Editorial Fundamentos: Madrid, Spain. In Eng.
This is a
revised edition of this publication on general population issues. It
contains chapters on world population growth, demographic aging,
sexuality, religion, abortion, and the reasons for Roman Catholic
opposition to birth control.
For a previous edition, published by
the same author under a different title in 1990, see 57:10006.
Correspondence: Editorial Fundamentos, Caracas 15, 28010
Madrid, Spain. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10005 Severtsov,
A. S. Dynamics of numerical changes in human population in
terms of animal population ecology. [Dinamika chislennosti
chelovechestva s pozitsii populyatsionnoi ekologii zhivotnykh.]
Biulleten' Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelel Prirody Otdel
Biologicheskii, Vol. 97, No. 6, 1992. 3-17 pp. Moscow, Russia. In Rus.
with sum. in Eng.
The author uses data concerning the natural
regulation of population size and growth among animals to consider
possible future scenarios for human population growth. Four possible
variants are considered: "numerical stabilization and its consequences
connected with density effect; sharp slump caused by a global
ecological catastrophe; limited slump brought about by exhaustion of
resources and environmental pollution; numerical decrease through birth
regulation. It has been shown that only the last variant can, in [the]
case of the human population being 1.2-1.5 billion people, ensure
restoration of [the] biosphere with keeping [the] existing tempo of
scientific-technological progress."
Correspondence: A. S.
Severtsov, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 117234 Moscow,
Russia. Location: U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda,
MD.
61:10006 Tickell,
Crispin. Where do we go from here? In:
Population--the complex reality, edited by Francis Graham-Smith. 1994.
373-6 pp. Royal Society: London, England; North American Press: Golden,
Colorado. In Eng.
The author discusses the future role of the
scientific community in reducing poverty, famine, and other aspects of
population pressure throughout the world.
Correspondence:
C. Tickell, University of Oxford, Green College, Oxford 0X2 6HG,
England. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10007 United
Nations Population Fund [UNFPA] (New York, New York).
Global population assistance report, 1992. ISBN 0-89714-124-5.
1994. 56 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
This report presents
information on global assistance for population activities in 1992,
based on questionnaires mailed to 392 countries and organizations in
June 1993. It includes assistance from donor countries, multilateral
organizations and agencies, private foundations, and other
nongovernmental organizations.
Correspondence: United
Nations Population Fund, 220 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10008
Bhattacharya, Debesh. Critique of zero population
growth theory. Indian Journal of Economics, Vol. 73, No. 4, Apr
1993. 513-44 pp. Allahabad, India. In Eng.
This is a critique of
widely held theories concerning the relationship between population
growth and economic development. "The central purpose of this paper is
to critically analyse the zero population growth movement. The
hypotheses of Neo-Malthusian theory or Zero Population Growth and the
concept of Population Bomb will be briefly stated in Section 1. Section
2 will discuss the theory of demographic transition. Section 3 will
critically examine the validity of the Neo-Malthusian theory of
population growth. Our conclusions and recommendations will be stated
in Section 4." The author's main contention is that overconsumption in
developed countries is the major cause of the deterioration of the
environment rather than overpopulation in the developing
countries.
Correspondence: D. Bhattacharya, University of
Sydney, Department of Economics, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
Location: World Bank, Joint Bank-Fund Library, Washington,
D.C.
61:10009 Bonneuil,
Noel. Malthus, Boserup and population viability.
Mathematical Population Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1994. 107-19, 122 pp.
Langhorne, Pennsylvania/Basel, Switzerland. In Eng. with sum. in Fre.
"The Malthus-Boserup explanatory framework is revisited from the
point of view of viability theory. Instead of imposing a univocal
relationship between population pressure and level of knowledge, the
way technology will change is not determined, it is only constrained.
This leads to regard any situation as associated to a set of reachable
futures. When no possibility is left for systems to avoid extinction,
systems are no longer viable. Hence, the control-phase space can be
divided into regions corresponding to gradual danger or security. This
point of view allows the introduction of ideas such as incentives to
create or to use new knowledge, gives a role to the threatening power
of Malthusian checks and leaves space for a specific variety of
behaviors. The Boserupian theme then appears indirectly, emerging from
the constraints imposed by the inertia of technological
change."
Correspondence: N. Bonneuil, Institut National
d'Etudes Demographiques, 27 rue du Commandeur, 75675 Paris Cedex 14,
France. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10010 Coale,
Ansley J. Conference on European fertility, Bellagio--July
1968. OPR Working Paper, No. 94-2, 1994. 79 pp. Princeton
University, Office of Population Research [OPR]: Princeton, New Jersey.
In Eng.
This paper presents the transcript of discussions that took
place at a meeting among participants in the European Fertility Project
at its beginning. It shows that many of the topics raised anticipated
discussions that took place over a decade later, and that discussants
foresaw the disappointing failure of the project to clarify aspects of
the demographic transition.
Correspondence: Princeton
University, Office of Population Research, 21 Prospect Avenue,
Princeton, NJ 08544-2091. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
61:10011 Udry, J.
Richard. The nature of gender. Demography, Vol. 31,
No. 4, Nov 1994. 561-73 pp. Washington, D.C. In Eng.
In this, the
Presidential address at the 1994 Annual Meeting of the Population
Association of America, the author presents "a biosocial model of
women's gendered behavior (behavior on which the sexes differ). This
model integrates a macro sociological theory with a biological theory
derived from primate behavior. The sociological model is designed to
explain changes in the relationship between sex and behavior over time
or between groups. The biological model is designed to explain
individual within-sex variance and between-sex variance in gendered
behavior in a cohort. Results from an original study are presented to
demonstrate that within-sex variance in women's gendered behavior is
explained well by the primate model. I conclude that human nature is
gendered. The implications of this conclusion are explored for
demographic and other social science
research."
Correspondence: J. R. Udry, University of North
Carolina, Carolina Population Center, University Square, CB 8120, 143
West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27516-3997. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10012 Bouchard,
Gerard. Population and genetics: a new frontier for the
social sciences. [Population et genetique: une nouvelle frontiere
pour les sciences sociales.] Annales de Demographie Historique, 1993.
397-412 pp. Paris, France. In Fre.
The author provides an example
of interdisciplinary research using the SOREP project of research on
the history of the population of Saguenay, in the province of Quebec,
Canada. The focus is on cooperation between historical demography and
genetics.
Correspondence: G. Bouchard, Universite du
Quebec, Centre Interuniversitaire SOREP, 555 Boulevard de l'Universite,
Chicoutimi, Quebec G7H 2B1, Canada. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
61:10013 Dupaquier,
Jacques. Genealogy and historical demography.
[Genealogie et demographie historique.] Annales de Demographie
Historique, 1993. 391-5 pp. Paris, France. In Fre.
The author
briefly reviews the relationship between the study of genealogy and
historical demography, focusing on the links between genealogical
methods and the methodology of family
reconstitution.
Correspondence: J. Dupaquier, Ecole des
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 44 rue de la Tour, 75116 Paris,
France. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10014 Jackson,
William A. The economics of ageing and the political
economy of old age. International Review of Applied Economics,
Vol. 8, No. 1, 1994. 31-45 pp. London, England. In Eng.
The author
reviews the different approaches that disciplines such as economics and
sociology have taken to the study of the consequences of demographic
aging. He suggests that "a combination of structural ideas from
sociology and disequilibrium ideas from Keynesian and non-neoclassical
economics can provide a suitable framework for the economics of
ageing."
Correspondence: W. A. Jackson, University of York,
Department of Economics and Related Studies, Heslington, York Y01 5DD,
England. Location: New York Public Library, New York, NY.
61:10015 Karamihova,
Margarita. Between ethnology and demography: women who
have given birth and the new-born in traditional Bulgarian
society. [Entre l'ethnologie et la demographie: accouchees et
nouveau-nes dans la societe bulgare traditionnelle.] Annales de
Demographie Historique, 1993. 67-74 pp. Paris, France. In Fre. with
sum. in Eng.
Ethnographic methods are used to attempt to indirectly
estimate levels of maternal and infant mortality in Ottoman Bulgaria
from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries. Some evidence of high
mortality is found for both Christians and
Muslims.
Correspondence: M. Karamihova, Institut National
d'Ethnographie, Sofia, Bulgaria. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
61:10016 Kazancigil,
A.; Desenarclens, P. Population: issues and
policies. International Social Science Journal, Vol. 46, No. 3,
Sep 1994. 300-454 pp. Blackwell: Cambridge, Massachusetts/Oxford,
England. In Eng.
This special issue aims to "address population
questions from a multidisciplinary perspective, whilst also examining
their socio-political implications."
Selected items will be cited in
this or subsequent issues of Population
Index.
Correspondence: Blackwell Publishers, 108 Cowley
Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, England. Location: Princeton University
Library (PR).
61:10017 Levy,
Michel L. Statistical anthropology. [Anthropologie
statistique.] Population et Societes, No. 295, Nov 1994. 4 pp. Institut
National d'Etudes Demographiques [INED]: Paris, France. In Fre.
The
author looks at some anthropological consequences of the demographic
transition in France, including a decline in the number of families
with many siblings and cousins, and a growth in families in which
children have living grandparents and great-grandparents. The extent
of consanguineous marriage between cousins in northern Africa is also
reviewed.
Correspondence: Institut National d'Etudes
Demographiques, 27 rue du Commandeur, 75675 Paris Cedex 14, France.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10018 Meyer,
Sibylle; Schulze, Eva. Social position and social
relationships: contributions from population sociology and related
disciplines. Festschrift for Rainer Mackensen. [Soziale Lage und
soziale Beziehungen: Beitrage aus der Soziologie der Bevolkerung und
angrenzender Disziplinen. Festschrift fur Rainer Mackensen.]
Schriftenreihe des Bundesinstituts fur Bevolkerungsforschung, Vol. 22,
ISBN 3-7646-1941-4. 1994. 438 pp. Boldt-Verlag: Boppard am Rhein,
Germany. In Ger.
This collection of 24 papers by various authors
focuses on themes related to population and family sociology, with a
geographic emphasis on Germany. Individual papers deal with the family
life cycle, demographic structures in Bremen during the first half of
the nineteenth century, mega-cities of the future and global population
growth, one-parent families in Germany since the nineteenth century, a
theoretical model of the desire for children and parenthood, family
policy, comparisons of the population in East and West Germany, the
effects of German reunification on women and families in the former
East Germany, female employment, and foreigners in
Germany.
Correspondence: Harald Boldt-Verlag, Am Alten
Sportzplatz 4, Postfach 1110, 5407 Boppard 1, Germany.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10019 Perrenoud,
Alfred. Historical demography and social history.
[Histoire demographique et histoire sociale.] Annales de Demographie
Historique, 1993. 383-9 pp. Paris, France. In Fre.
The author
examines the relationship between historical demography and social
history over the past 30 years. He suggests that there is a continued
need for greater fertilization of ideas between the two
disciplines.
Correspondence: A. Perrenoud, Universite de
Geneve, 3 place de l'Universite, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10020 Rockett,
Ian R. H. Population and health: an introduction to
epidemiology. Population Bulletin, Vol. 49, No. 3, Nov 1994. 48
pp. Population Reference Bureau: Washington, D.C. In Eng.
"Epidemiology...is the study of our collective health.
Epidemiologists contribute to the health and longevity of the
population by identifying high-risk population groups, helping find the
causes of disease or injury, and by evaluating prevention programs.
This [issue] reviews the history of population-based health science,
explains the methods and materials of contemporary descriptive and
analytical epidemiology, and discusses the ethical issues health
scientists must face."
Correspondence: Population Reference
Bureau, 1875 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 520, Washington, D.C.
20009-5728. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10021 Shreeniwas,
Sudha. Population in its social context.
International Social Science Journal, Vol. 46, No. 2, Jun 1994. 257-75
pp. Cambridge, Massachusetts/Oxford, England. In Eng.
"This article
describes some central issues concerning population which are also
relevant to sociology. These include population size and composition
through fertility and mortality patterns, stressing issues concerning
marriage and the family to illustrate the view that these institutions
are central to demographic processes and behaviour. Population movement
or migration is also considered." The emphasis is on the interface
between demography and sociology.
Correspondence: S.
Shreeniwas, University of California, Department of Demography, 2232
Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94720. Location: Princeton
University Library (PR).
61:10022 Smith,
Stanley K. Expert testimony in adversarial legal
proceedings: some tips for demographers. In: Studies in applied
demography, edited by K. Vaninadha Rao and Jerry W. Wicks. 1994. 253-60
pp. Bowling Green State University, Department of Sociology, Population
and Society Research Center: Bowling Green, Ohio. In Eng.
"In this
article I discuss the role of the expert witness in [U.S.] adversarial
legal proceedings and offer some tips on how to prepare and present
expert testimony....My objective is simply to provide some practical
guidance to prospective expert witnesses and to promote further
discussion of the topic. I hope this and future discussions will help
expert witnesses maximize effectiveness and minimize emotional distress
when testifying in adversarial legal
proceedings."
Correspondence: S. K. Smith, University of
Florida, Bureau of Economic and Business Research, 221 Matherly Hall,
Gainesville, FL 32611. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
61:10023 Wang,
Ching-li. State laws and the use of population data.
In: Studies in applied demography, edited by K. Vaninadha Rao and Jerry
W. Wicks. 1994. 261-9 pp. Bowling Green State University, Department of
Sociology, Population and Society Research Center: Bowling Green, Ohio.
In Eng.
"By reviewing the existing state laws in Michigan, this
paper attempts to identify the mandated requirements for using
population data at the state level....The search of laws related to the
use of population data should provide an important clue about how state
programs are linked to the population the state is trying to serve.
This analysis is based on a review of Michigan Public Acts recorded in
Michigan Complied Laws."
Correspondence: C.-l. Wang,
Michigan Department of Management and Budget, Office of Revenue and Tax
Analysis, Lewis Cass Building, P.O. Box 30026, Lansing, MI 48909.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10024 Morocco.
Direction de la Statistique. Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches
Demographiques [CERED] (Rabat, Morocco). A manual of
demographic analysis. A practical guide. [Manuel d'analyse
demographique. Guide pratique.] ISBN 9981-807-10-9. 1994. 281 pp.
Rabat, Morocco. In Fre.
This textbook on demographic analysis is
designed for use in Morocco by those involved in that country's
population program, and therefore makes extensive use of Moroccan data
and examples. It includes chapters on population dynamics and
characteristics, mortality, nuptiality, fertility, internal and
international migration, spatial distribution and urbanization,
population projections, and social
indicators.
Correspondence: Direction de la Statistique,
Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Demographiques, B.P. 178, Rue Mohamed
Belhassan, El Ouazzani-Haut Agdal, Rabat, Morocco. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10025 Nam,
Charles B. Understanding population change. ISBN
0-87581-377-1. LC 93-71269. 1994. xviii, 471 pp. F. E. Peacock: Itasca,
Illinois. In Eng.
This is an introductory textbook to the study of
population dynamics. "This book has four parts. Part One is concerned
with Fundamentals of Population Change. Here we tell about what makes
populations get larger or smaller, how populations have changed over
history, the ways in which people have thought about population over
the centuries, and what it takes to acquire population information. In
Part Two...we discover the contributions of births, deaths, and
residential movements to population change. More important, we
identify why some people live longer than others, why some couples have
more babies than other couples, and why moving to other places is more
likely for some persons than others....We show how these factors are
related to where we find concentrations of people and where there are
relatively few, as well as how old or young is the population. Part
Three then addresses the issue of what this all means for the way we
live--what constitutes our families and our households, our educational
statuses and opportunities, our work and economic welfare, how we are
governed, and our religious activities....Finally, in Part Four we look
at the matter of who influences population change and how those
influences take place."
Correspondence: F. E. Peacock
Publishers, Itasca, IL 60143. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
