Works of a general and comprehensive nature. Studies that are limited to well-defined problems of demography are cited under the relevant topic and are cross-referenced to this division, if appropriate.
Comprehensive, book-length surveys of the present status of demography and its principal branches, including the historical development of these studies, analytical studies of demography as a whole, and global population studies.
62:30001 Cromartie, Michael. The
nine lives of population control. ISBN 0-8028-0879-4. LC 95-17413.
1995. ix, 178 pp. Ethics and Public Policy Center: Washington, D.C.;
William B. Eerdmans Publishing: Grand Rapids, Michigan. In Eng.
This book is a product of a conference held in October 1993 under
the title Is There a World Population Problem? A Challenge to the
Conventional Wisdom. It consists of four papers and two related
responses. An introductory piece identifies the issue of control as the
heart of the controversy surrounding population issues. Next, there are
debates on the merits and basis of population policies. This section
deals with the role of family planning programs and discusses whether
population growth is a benefit or a hindrance to the development
process. The book concludes with an analysis of events at the September
1994 International Conference on Population and Development held in
Cairo, and an essay on the meaning of the presence of
children.
Correspondence: William B. Eerdmans Publishing
Company, 255 Jefferson Avenue SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30002 Kile, Michael. No room
at Nature's mighty feast: reflections on the growth of humankind.
ISBN 0-646-23550-8. 1995. ix, 454 pp. Demos Press: East Perth,
Australia. In Eng.
The thesis of this book is that all major global
problems are directly linked to the issue of population growth and that
the rate of such growth will determine the fate of humankind in the
twenty-first century. The author first traces the history of thought on
population issues before and after Malthus, paying particular attention
to Malthus's work. He then describes the rise of the modern concern
with population issues and the switch from pronatalism in the early
twentieth century to the growing international concern with rapid
population growth after World War II. The relationship between
population factors and issues such as the environment, resource
availability, and global warming is considered. The author also
describes how a series of international conferences has struggled with
how to resolve problems of population growth in the context of efforts
to achieve social and economic development. Finally, prospects for the
twenty-first century are examined. The author concludes that "the
extreme sensitivity of long-range population growth projections to
small variations in average global fertility rates emerges as a
relationship with momentous implications for the future of
humankind."
Correspondence: Demos Press, P.O. Box
6703, East Perth, WA 6892, Australia. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
62:30003 Leridon, Henri; Barbieri, Magali;
Clermont, Pierre; Monnier, Alain; Munoz-Pérez, Franciso; Prioux,
France; Véron, Jacques. Populations: current
knowledge. France, Europe, and the world. [Populations:
l'état des connaissances. La France, L'Europe, le monde.] ISBN
2-7071-2559-8. 1996. xvii, 334 pp. Institut National d'Etudes
Démographiques [INED]: Paris, France; Editions La
Découverte: Paris, France. In Fre.
This volume presents some
80 contributions by various authors on aspects of the current
demographic situation worldwide. The first part examines population
trends in France; it has sections on fertility and its regulation,
mortality, families and lifestyles, family policies, immigration, and
current and prospective changes. The second part looks at trends in
Europe as a whole and covers approximately the same subject areas. The
third part reviews global population trends; it has sections on
population growth, fertility, mortality, population policy, migration,
and current changes. The book concludes with a selection of statistical
data.
Correspondence: Editions La Découverte, 9 bis
rue Abel-Hovelacque, 75013 Paris, France. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
62:30004 Markley, Oliver O.; McCuan, Walter
R. 21st century earth: opposing viewpoints. Opposing
Viewpoints Series, ISBN 1-56510-414-5. LC 95-39051. 1996. 288 pp.
Greenhaven Press: San Diego, California. In Eng.
This is a
selection of opposing viewpoints on what is likely to happen in the
twenty-first century with regard to some globally important issues.
Most of the contributions have previously been published elsewhere. The
first section of the monograph is particularly concerned with
population issues. It discusses how population trends will affect
humanity and conveys differing arguments about overpopulation, the gap
between the rich and poor, and the relative importance of the young or
the elderly as the dominant age group in
society.
Correspondence: Greenhaven Press, P.O. Box 289009,
San Diego, CA 92198-9009. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
62:30005 Mathieu, Jean-Luc. The
major problems of population. [Les grandes problèmes de
population.] Que Sais-Je?, No. 2874, ISBN 2-13-046382-7. Jul 1994. 128
pp. Presses Universitaires de France: Paris, France. In Fre.
This
monograph provides a general introduction to a number of important
issues concerning population. The first part focuses on global
population questions. It discusses population trends and prospects, the
concentration of population in urban areas, migration, and population
policies. The second part analyzes issues of concern in developed
countries, such as demographic aging and the demographic consequences
of the development of the European Union. The third part examines
topics of specific interest to France: population trends, the aged,
immigration, and regional demographic
imbalances.
Correspondence: Presses Universitaires de
France, 108 boulevard Saint-Germain, 75006 Paris, France. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30006 Soutullo, Daniel. The
global population explosion. [La explosión
demográfica mundial.] Serie Alfa, ISBN 84-88119-27-5. LC
95-181597. [1994]. 123 pp. Talasa Ediciones: Madrid, Spain. In Spa.
This is a general study on the growth of the world's population,
its causes and its consequences. The author discusses the following
questions: Is the world overpopulated? Do people need to limit their
fertility? Can the projected population be fed over the next 50 years?
Is rapid population growth a primary cause of third-world poverty? What
are the environmental implications of population growth? Will the Cairo
conference yield any solutions to population problems? What are
population policies and where and how should they be
implemented?
Correspondence: Talasa Ediciones, c/ Hileras
8, 1o der., 28013 Madrid, Spain. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
62:30007 United Nations. Department for
Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis. Population
Division (New York, New York). World population monitoring
1993, with a special report on refugees. No. ST/ESA/SER.A/139,
Pub. Order No. E.95.XIII.8. ISBN 92-1-151279-4. 1996. xii, 238 pp. New
York, New York. In Eng.
This is the eighth in a series of reports
that monitor global population trends and policies. "The present
report consists of three main parts. Following a very brief overview,
part one presents a special report on refugees. Part two...presents the
results of the monitoring of population trends and policies in
population growth and structure, fertility, mortality, population
distribution and international migration. In part three, the role of
population in relation to the environment is summarized."
For a
previous report in this series, published in 1992, see 58:30071.
Correspondence: UN Department for Economic and Social
Information and Policy Analysis, Population Division, Room DC2-1950,
New York, NY 10017. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
Short (fewer than 100 pages), general works on population and global population studies. Items on activities of research institutions in demography are also included.
62:30008 Amalric, Franck; Banuri,
Tariq. Population: malady or symptom? Third World
Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 4, Dec 1994. 691-706 pp. Abingdon, England. In
Eng.
"The first draft of the ICPD [International Conference on
Population and Development] plan of action, as well as the proceedings
of the preparatory committees, suggested that Cairo would witness the
first international consensus around the view that population growth is
a major impediment to sustainable development....It seems...useful to
analyse the basis of what we shall call the ICPD consensus, which is
the purpose of this paper. The analysis relies on the literature on the
causes and consequences of population growth at the local, national and
international levels. By relating it with the literature on the causes
of environmental degradation and on development, we suggest that it can
be divided into two broad divisions. The first, a branch of
modernisation theory, asserts that population growth is a problem at
all levels of aggregation....The second perspective, by contrast,
emphasises the existence of a conflict rather than that of a
consensus."
Correspondence: F. Amalric, Harvard
University, One Eliot Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Location:
Princeton University Library (FST).
62:30009 Lévy, Michel L.
Demographers' lost opportunities. [Les occasions
manquées des démographes.] Vingtième
Siècle, No. 51, Jul-Sep 1996. 129-39 pp. Paris, France. In Fre.
The author uses the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of the French National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED)
to examine the contribution of demographers, and particularly of French
demographers, to resolving the world's problems. The issues discussed
range from problems of population growth in developing countries to
problems of employment and social security in the developed
world.
Correspondence: M. L. Lévy, Institut National
d'Etudes Démographiques, 27 rue du Commandeur, 75675 Paris Cedex
14, France. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
Discussions of the main principles of demography and population theory not applied to actual data, including such concepts as Malthusianism, the demographic transition, overpopulation, optimum population, and stable and stationary population models as distinct from methodological studies and models using data, which are classified under N. Methods of Research and Analysis Including Models .
62:30010 Bharadwaj, Lakshmi K.
Theories of demographic change. In: Demographic and structural
change: the effects of the 1980s on American society, edited by Dennis
L. Peck and J. Selwyn Hollingsworth. 1996. 1-17 pp. Greenwood Press:
Westport, Connecticut. In Eng.
The author compares and evaluates
various theories of demographic change. Approaches considered include
the population-resource crisis, the neo-Malthusian approach, the
demographic transition theory, and the human ecological (expansionist)
approach.
Correspondence: L. K. Bharadwaj, University of
Wisconsin, Department of Sociology, Milwaukee, WI 53201. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30011 Bhattacharyya, A. K. A
note on Keyfitz's theorem on the mixture of population.
Janasamkhya, Vol. 11, No. 1, Jun 1993. 63-5 pp. Kariavattom, India. In
Eng.
"Keyfitz showed [that] if there are n sub groups of a
population having constant exponential growth rate then the overall
growth rate has positive derivative and hence it will go on increasing.
But in this note we show that if the exponential growth rate is taken
to be varying over time then the overall growth rate will not
necessarily be increasing."
Correspondence: A. K.
Bhattacharyya, Indian Statistical Institute, Population Studies Unit,
203 Barrackpore Trunk Road, Calcutta 700 035, India. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30012 Burch, Thomas K. Icons,
straw men and precision: reflections on demographic theories of
fertility decline. Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 1, Winter
1996. 59-81 pp. Berkeley, California. In Eng.
"Despite the
passage of half a century since `demographic transition theory' first
appeared in English-language demographic literature, many would agree
that relatively little progress has been made toward refinement and
testing of leading theoretical ideas, or towards theoretical consensus.
There has rather been a proliferation of untested theories, partially
overlapping and often associated with one individual, discipline, or
school of thought. It is argued here that lack of clarity, precision
and rigor in the statement, criticism, and use of theories of fertility
decline is a major cause of the lack of theoretical progress. The
greater use of tools for the computer modeling of complex dynamic
systems is seen as a partial remedy. Emphasis is on the use of computer
modeling (simulation) as a theoretical
tool."
Correspondence: T. K. Burch, University of
Western Ontario, Population Studies Centre, London, Ontario N6A 5C2,
Canada. Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
62:30013 Greenhalgh, Susan. The
social construction of population science: an intellectual,
institutional, and political history of twentieth-century
demography. Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 38,
No. 1, Jan 1996. 26-66 pp. New York, New York/Cambridge, England. In
Eng.
"In this essay I outline a social constructionist
approach to knowledge production in twentieth-century demography. This
approach starts with the proposition that nothing in the nature of its
subject made it inevitable that demography would develop as a highly
mathematical field weak on social theory....The trajectory of
demography, I will show, was a historical product forged by particular
groups of social actors operating in historically specific political
economic contexts. In elaborating this view I focus primarily on the
practices of American demographers, the largest and most influential
contingent of population specialists in the world. I concentrate on the
group of demographers studying fertility."
Correspondence:
S. Greenhalgh, University of California, Irvine, CA 92717.
Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
62:30014 Manfredi, Piero. Some
unknown episodes in the history of population dynamics concerning the
logistic law: the lesson of the great epidemiologists. Polish
Population Review, No. 7, 1995. 41-52 pp. Warsaw, Poland. In Eng.
The author discusses the work of "the two great
epidemiologists R. Ross and A. G. McKendrick. This talk is basically
devoted to their `lesson' about logistic theory and it is organised as
follows: section 2 is devoted to McKendrick's [1911] contribution to
the growth of microorganism populations, a paper which was not widely
acclaimed, but which marks the first experimental laboratory
verification of the logistic law. Section 3 is also devoted to
McKendrick and to the way he repeatedly derived the logistic equation
as a model for `simple epidemics'. Finally, in section 4, we present
Ross's `A priori pathometry' theory that really emphasizes...the role
played by the logistic law as the `first principle' of the mathematical
epidemiology."
Correspondence: P. Manfredi,
Università degli Studi di Pisa, Lugarno Pacinotti 45, 56100
Pisa, Italy. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30015 Micheli, Giuseppe A.
Alternative approaches to fertility transition. Polish
Population Review, No. 7, 1995. 9-27 pp. Warsaw, Poland. In Eng.
"Using anomalies of the Italian case as the basis, the aim of
this article is to verify how the theoretical framework [of demographic
transition] put forward by Lesthaeghe can be interpreted....While the
changes in mores in the Italy of the economic boom were a component of
the large-scale processes of secularization, rationalization and
modernization specific to the [first demographic transition], the
practices, values and models of the collective imagination
characterizing the second phase of Lesthaeghe's [second demographic
transition] are marked by a state of mind that cannot be put down to
the `spirit of the age' during the years of large-scale modernization,
but to the emancipatory and `rational' falling away of many of the
barriers to the unfolding of individual life destiny over and above
that based on class, gender and age."
Correspondence:
G. A. Micheli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo
A. Gemelli 1, 20123 Milan, Italy. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
62:30016 Sen, Amartya. Population
and reasoned agency: food, fertility, and economic development.
In: Population, economic development, and the environment, edited by
Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling and Hans Landberg. 1994. 51-78 pp. Oxford
University Press: New York, New York/Oxford, England. In Eng.
The
author compares the views of Malthus and Condorcet on population growth
and population problems: "Where exactly did they differ? I shall
focus on three contrasts here--relevant to the
population-development-environment debate (though there were also other
differences between the two). (1) How close are we to the limits?...
(2) Is food the main problem?... (3) Can a rational social policy be
voluntary?"
Correspondence: A. Sen, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA 02138. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
Interdisciplinary studies of demographic problems and studies of the interaction of demography with other disciplines. This coding is also used for reports, studies, and surveys from other disciplines that include information of demographic interest.
62:30017 Schmertmann, Carl P.; Amankwaa,
Adansi A.; Long, Robert D. Three strikes and you're out:
demographic analysis of mandatory prison sentencing. Center for
the Study of Population Working Paper, No. 95-129, [1996]. 26, [13] pp.
Florida State University, College of Social Sciences, Center for the
Study of Population: Tallahassee, Florida. In Eng.
"Many
[U.S.] state governments are currently considering versions of `Three
Strikes and You're Out' (3SYO) laws that would mandate life sentences
in prison for three-time felons. In this paper we investigate the
demographic effects of mandatory sentencing policies on the size and
age structure of state prison populations, with special emphasis on
3SYO. Our primary goal is to improve the quality of information
available to policy makers about the costs of mandatory sentencing. In
doing so we also hope to illustrate the general relevance of
demographic methods for other social
sciences."
Correspondence: Florida State University,
Center for the Study of Population, 659-C Bellamy Building,
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4063. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
Major demographic textbooks and teaching aids, general surveys and collections of readings that are particularly suitable as supplements to coursework, studies on the organization and coverage of training programs in demography, and selected items on population education.
62:30018 Arafat, Ibtihaj S.; Allen, Donald
E. Thinking about population: an introduction to modern
demography. Reynolds Series in Sociology, ISBN 1-882289-28-5. LC
94-78415. 1995. xviii, 377 pp. General Hall: Dix Hills, New York. In
Eng.
"The present text offers a comprehensive outline of
demography as a science, with special emphasis on sociological
components....The book is divided into three parts. In Part I we
examine the history of demographic thought and its emergence as a
scientific discipline....Part II discusses the three main components of
demographic studies: mortality, fertility, and migration. This part
offers basic descriptions of the major tools and devices employed by
demographers, such as the life table, the population pyramid, and the
various rates that are computed, along with descriptions of what these
can tell us. Part III examines population growth and processes. It
describes the population debates that have been raging for
years....[It] also examines the world population picture today, of
which the most salient feature is the enormous population growth in the
past century. Finally, it examines the ways in which population
problems influence public policy on abortion and birth control, pro-
and antinatalist programs, and calls for the restriction of
immigration, ethnic politics, and medical
research."
Correspondence: General Hall, 5 Talon Way,
Dix Hills, NY 11746. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
62:30019 Arriaga, Eduardo E.; Johnson, Peter
D.; Jamison, Ellen. Population analysis with
microcomputers. Nov 1994. xiii, 379; 406 pp. U.S. Bureau of the
Census: Washington, D.C.; U.S. Agency for International Development
[USAID]: Washington, D.C.; United Nations Population Fund [UNFPA]: New
York, New York. In Eng.
This two-volume manual is an introductory
textbook on undertaking demographic analysis in developing countries.
It is intended for situations in which adequate vital statistics data
are not available. "The manual has two volumes. Volume I includes
the technical and theoretical aspects about how to analyze the
population information. At the beginning of each chapter an overview of
the contents is presented. A reference table indicates the methods and
software that can be used according to the available information.
Volume II presents the documentation of the Population Analysis
Spreadsheets and population projection program. The spreadsheets are
presented in alphabetical order." The population analysis
spreadsheets are provided on a floppy disk.
Correspondence:
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, D.C. 20233. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30020 Trovato, Frank; Grindstaff, Carl
F. Perspectives on Canada's population: an introduction to
concepts and issues. ISBN 0-19-540960-4. 1994. viii, 438 pp.
Oxford University Press: Toronto, Canada. In Eng.
This textbook,
intended primarily for students in undergraduate courses in population,
"brings together 28 papers examining major issues and trends in
Canadian demography. Beginning with a historical survey of population
growth in Canada and around the world, Part 1 draws attention to the
interplay of demographic and social changes. The remaining sections
focus on issues in six specific areas: the age and sex composition of
Canadian society, mortality, fertility, family formation and
dissolution, population movement (both international and internal),
and, finally, urbanization and population ecology. In their
introduction to each section, the editors provide an overview of the
readings to follow, outlining central issues, themes, and concepts, as
well as a guide to the basic techniques of population analysis used in
each case."
Correspondence: Oxford University Press,
70 Wynford Drive, Don Mills, Ontario M3C 1J9, Canada. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
