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.
62:40001 Birg, Herwig. World
population: dynamics and dangers. [Die Weltbevölkerung:
Dynamik und Gefahren.] Beck'sche Reihe, No. 2050, ISBN 3-406-41050-2.
1996. 144 pp. C. H. Beck: Munich, Germany. In Ger.
This volume
presents an overview of the global demographic situation at the end of
the twentieth century and projections into the twenty-first century.
Topics covered include demographic theory and history; socioeconomic
development and population; the gap between developed and developing
countries; fertility and mortality trends and projections; spatial
distribution and urbanization; the relationships between population,
development, and environmental policies; and the ethics of population
control.
Correspondence: C. H. Beck, Verlagsbuchhandlung
(Oscar Beck), Wilhelmstraße 9, 80801 Munich, Germany.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:40002 Hollingsworth, William G.
Ending the explosion: population policies and ethics for a humane
future. ISBN 0-929765-44-3. LC 96-7741. 1996. xiv, 254 pp. Seven
Locks Press: Santa Ana, California. In Eng.
This book makes the
case that preventing global overpopulation is a primary ethical
imperative, and a necessary, if often forgotten, step toward a
sustainable future for the planet. The author first examines likely
future population scenarios both with and without efforts to reduce the
rate of population growth. Next, the direct means to reduce rates of
growth, such as family planning and population education programs, are
described, as well as indirect means, such as reducing levels of infant
and child mortality, raising age at marriage, encouraging
breast-feeding, and reducing levels of gender inequality. The ethical
objections to the use of incentives and disincentives are also
discussed. The book concludes with a chapter spelling out the
ingredients of a global bargain involving both rich and poor countries
designed to reduce the rate of population growth and increase global
equity.
Correspondence: Seven Locks Press, P.O. Box 25689,
Santa Ana, CA 92799. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
62:40003 Independent Commission on Population
and Quality of Life (Oxford, England). Caring for the
future: making the next decade provide a life worth living. ISBN
0-19-286186-7. 1996. xiv, 359 pp. Oxford University Press: New York,
New York/Oxford, England. In Eng.
This report outlines "a
radical agenda to confront the economic, human, and environmental
crises facing the world today." This agenda consists of the
following four main aspects: targets and timetables to improve the
standards of health and education, a tax on international financial
transactions to raise the necessary funding, a rejection of
overreliance on free-market economics, and putting women's rights at
the forefront of efforts to stabilize global population. The report
argues that population problems can be tackled most effectively by
working toward a "dynamic population balance in harmony with the
environment," and by emphasizing the importance of improving the
quality of life as a goal of development efforts. Recommendations in
the areas of abortion, reproductive health, and family planning are
included.
Correspondence: Oxford University Press, Walton
Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, England. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
62:40004 Klatzmann, Joseph.
Overpopulation: myth or menace? [Surpopulation: mythe ou
menace?] ISBN 2-7178-3057-X. 1996. 145 pp. Economica: Paris, France. In
Fre.
The prospects for future global population growth are
analyzed, and the conflicting arguments as to whether this growth will
have beneficial effects or will pose additional problems are reviewed.
There are chapters on global population trends, food supplies,
ecological issues, the demographic contrast between the developed and
developing worlds, the impact of rapid population growth on
socioeconomic development prospects, and the relationship between
population numbers and quality of life. The author concludes that,
since neither the optimistic nor the pessimistic arguments about the
impact of global population growth can be proven, it makes sense to err
on the side of caution, and to include efforts to reduce rates of
population growth in the effort to resolve problems of
underdevelopment.
Correspondence: Economica, 49 rue
Héricart, 75015 Paris, France. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
62:40005 Reddy, Marlita A.
Statistical abstract of the world. 2nd ed. ISBN 0-8103-6433-6.
1996. xxi, 1,120 pp. Gale Research: Detroit, Michigan. In Eng.
This
volume presents a selection of data for 186 different countries in a
uniform format. The data include "physical characteristics;
demographic subjects: ethnicities, religion, and language; education;
science and technology; government and defense; labor; energy,
production, and manufacturing; and finance, economics, and trade."
The book is organized by country and a keyword index is provided. The
demographic section concerns the period 1960- 2020 and includes data on
population size, density, fertility, mortality, life expectancy, and
married women of reproductive age.
Correspondence: Gale
Research, 835 Penobscot Building, Detroit, MI 48226-4094. 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.
62:40006 Brower, Michael C.
Population complications: understanding the population debate.
Oct 1994. 23 pp. Union of Concerned Scientists: Cambridge,
Massachusetts. In Eng.
"Some experts claim that population
growth is the most serious threat to humanity's future; others see its
effects as greatly exaggerated, even benign. There has also been strong
debate over how to limit population growth. Some have argued that
family planning programs are the quickest and surest way to curb birth
rates, others that the only solution lies in lifting people out of
poverty and ensuring women's rights. The truth lies somewhere in
between these extremes, but exactly where to strike the balance is an
important and politically sensitive issue. Much of the dispute over the
population issue centers on two questions. First, what role does
population growth play in the world's social and environmental
problems? And second, what is the most effective and humane way to
reduce population growth rates?"
Correspondence: Union
of Concerned Scientists, Two Brattle Square, Cambridge, MA 02238-9105.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:40007 Conly, Shanti R. Taking
the lead: the United Nations and population assistance. ISBN
1-889735-00-0. LC 96-78202. 1996. x, 54 pp. Population Action
International: Washington, D.C. In Eng.
This report describes UN
activities in population assistance. The main focus is on the United
Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The report includes recommendations
for improving UN assistance for population activities.
For a related
publication on UN activities in population, by Cynthia P. Green and
Shanti R. Conly, see elsewhere in this issue.
Correspondence:
Population Action International, 1120 19th Street NW, Suite 550,
Washington, D.C. 20036. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
62:40008 Hall, John B. Negative
population growth: why we must, and how we could, achieve it.
Population and Environment, Vol. 18, No. 1, Sep 1996. 65-71 pp. New
York, New York. In Eng.
"Humanity has been all too successful
in remodeling much of the natural world to serve its own purposes.
While this has permitted an unprecedented increase in the number of
humans that the Earth will support, it appears that we have exceeded
the limits of our natural life-support systems and are rapidly
destroying the very resources needed to sustain our existence. We need
to turn to the conquest of one last frontier, perhaps the most
difficult and dangerous one of all, the mastery of ourselves....A brief
look at the list of pressing world problems will make it obvious that
the present world population is already far greater than can be
sustained, even at present levels of misery, for very many more
generations."
Correspondence: J. B. Hall, University
of Hawaii, Department of Microbiology, 5326 Keikilani Circle, Honolulu,
HI 96821-1515. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:40009 Khalatbari, Parviz.
Population growth and civilization. The population explosion in a
shrinking world. [Bevölkerungsentwicklung und Zivilisation.
Die Bevölkerungsexplosion in einer zusammengeschrumpften Welt.]
In: Viele Kulturen--eine Welt. Eine Vortragsreihe des Museums für
Völkerkunde 1993/94, edited by Dieter Kramer. Interim, Vol. 15,
ISBN 3-88270-391-1. 1995. 83-98 pp. Museum für Völkerkunde:
Frankfurt am Main, Germany. In Ger.
Trends in population growth are
described and the growth of developed and developing countries is
compared and projected into the future. The causes and consequences of
population growth are explored; consequences include large-scale
international migration, famine, destruction of the environment, global
warming, unemployment, uncontrolled urbanization, and massive poverty.
The author concludes that a global catastrophe is unavoidable, barring
the unlikely prospect of an effective world government being
established to solve these problems.
Correspondence: P.
Khalatbari, Gesellschaft für Demographie, Parkaue 3, 10367 Berlin,
Germany. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:40010 Khalatbari, Parviz.
Population growth and underdevelopment.
[Bevölkerungswachstum und Unterentwicklung.] In: Globales
Bevölkerungswachstum--exponentiell ins Chaos? ISBN 3-9804502-2-8.
1995. 83-109 pp. Studenteninitiative Wirtschaft und Umwelt:
Münster, Germany. In Ger.
Past and future population growth in
developed and developing countries is contrasted and the history of
underdevelopment is described. After a brief analysis of the recent
trends in population growth, the conclusions of the 1994 Cairo
conference are critiqued. Due to the age structure of the developing
countries, the author foresees the likelihood of continued population
growth even if the birth rate decreases. Finally, the problems
resulting from continued population growth in the developing countries
are examined, and the author concludes that only a new world system can
avert a global catastrophe.
Correspondence: P. Khalatbari,
Gesellschaft für Demographie, Parkaue 3, 10367 Berlin, Germany.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:40011 Khalatbari, Parviz. The
population explosion--a risk for existing civilization! [Die
Bevölkerungsexplosion--ein Risiko für die bestehende
Zivilisation!] In: Earth Summit '92--Perspektiven für eine neue
Weltordnung. 1993. 125-52 pp. Studenteninitiative Wirtschaft und
Umwelt: Münster, Germany. In Ger.
The author analyzes global
trends in population growth and projects them into the future, pointing
out the imbalances between developed and developing countries. The
causes and consequences of the population explosion in the developing
countries are explored, culminating with a section on unemployment,
urbanization, and poverty. The author sees the increase in the number
of people living in abject poverty as a potential threat to world peace
and warns that nothing short of a miracle will solve these global
problems.
Correspondence: P. Khalatbari, Gesellschaft
für Demographie, Parkaue 3, 10367 Berlin, Germany. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:40012 Lévy, Michel L.
What are demographers for? [A quoi servent les
démographes?] Population et Sociétés, No. 306, Oct
1995. 1-3 pp. Paris, France. In Fre.
On the occasion of the
fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the Institut National d'Etudes
Démographiques, the author considers some of the areas of
current interest to demographers. These include statistical data, the
problems caused by the demographic transition, and changes in the
family.
Correspondence: M. L. Lévy, Institut
National d'Etudes Démographiques, 27 rue du Commandeur, 75675
Paris Cedex 14, France. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
62:40013 Moffett, George D.
Global population growth: 21st century challenges. Headline
Series, No. 302, ISBN 0-87124-158-7. LC 94-71669. Jul 1994. 72 pp.
Foreign Policy Association: New York, New York. In Eng.
This study
examines global trends in population growth, focusing both on the
consensus that the rate of growth needs to be slowed and on the ways to
do this, which include a combination of family planning and development
plans that emphasize the education of women. The author points out that
not only does the population issue affect attempts to solve problems in
other areas, but that the end of the Cold War provides a new
opportunity for tackling population problems, and that delay in doing
so will only increase the size of the problem in the future. The book
contains chapters on the consequences of population growth, the growth
of cities, feeding the world, models of family planning, women's
education and empowerment, and U.S. policy and the global
agenda.
Correspondence: Foreign Policy Association, 729
Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
62:40014 Population Action International
(Washington, D.C.). Why population matters, 1996.
[1996]. 55 pp. Washington, D.C. In Eng.
This report summarizes the
reasons Americans should be concerned about population issues. It is
organized into five sections, including: "an introduction
addressing the purpose of the publication and describing the realities
of population programs; an insert detailing population facts and
figures; three sections of `key reasons,' describing the impact of
continued population growth on economic development, on the
environment, and on safety and health; a discussion of the history and
contributions of the U.S. population assistance program; and
suggestions as to what activists in the field can do to influence the
policy debate in Washington."
Correspondence:
Population Action International, 1120 19th Street NW, Suite 550,
Washington, D.C. 20036. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
62:40015 Prioux, France. Recent
demographic trends. [L'évolution démographique
récente.] Population, Vol. 51, No. 3, May-Jun 1996. 657-74 pp.
Paris, France. In Fre.
Recent population trends in France are
examined. The analysis covers general trends, international migration,
fertility, abortion, marriage and divorce, and mortality by cause,
including AIDS.
Correspondence: F. Prioux, Institut
National d'Etudes Démographiques, 27 rue du Commandeur, 75675
Paris Cedex 14, France. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
62:40016 United Nations Population Fund
[UNFPA] (New York, New York). Global population assistance
report, 1994. ISBN 0-89714-284-5. [1996]. 60 pp. New York, New
York. In Eng.
This report reviews the flow of financial resources
to international assistance for population activities in 1994. The
data, for individual years from 1985 to 1994, are provided by donor,
channel (bilateral, multilateral, or NGO), and recipient.
For the
1993 report, see 62:20007.
Correspondence: United Nations
Population Fund, 220 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017.
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 .
62:40017 Burke, B. Meredith.
Managed growth and optimum population: irreconcilable
concepts. Population and Environment, Vol. 17, No. 6, Jul 1996.
537-44 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
"`Managed growth' is a
politically popular rallying point which offends no faction by
insisting upon nonnegotiable limits. Subscribers to this philosophy
focus upon short-run accommodations to growth which apparently mitigate
its physical consequences. `Managed growthers' react to longterm
numerical projections with rejection, if not outright hostility. They
may be more amenable to quality-of-life rationales for population
limitation evolving from the biophilia hypothesis and `ecopsychology.'
These theories claim that our species needs to exist in proximity to
untrammelled wilderness and a natural environment for psychic health
and creativity."
Correspondence: B. M. Burke, 443
Tennessee Lane, Palo Alto, CA 94306. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
62:40018 Clarke, Harry.
International populations: some welfare implications of birth,
death and migration. Schools of Economics and Commerce Discussion
Papers, Series A, No. 95.05, ISBN 0-85816-996-7. Feb 1995. 33 pp. La
Trobe University, School of Commerce: Bundoora, Australia. In Eng.
"The welfare effects of population size change and locational
shifts are analysed using gains-from-trade theory. The resulting
framework does not give rise to the pessimism of Malthusianism and
`optimal population' theory. Overpopulation becomes viewed as a
consequence of market failures impinging on fertility choices rather
than a reflection of the existence of fixed factors. The approach
enables a straightforward generalisation of standard single-good,
single-factor models of population growth into more realistic settings
where, for example, induced capital flows can arise because of
demographic change. For small open economies, accounting for such
induced effects can make free trade in factors immiserising for
preexisting people unless they are perfectly altruistic toward their
progeny."
Correspondence: La Trobe University, School
of Commerce, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:40019 Laslett, Peter. What is
old age? Variation over time and between cultures. In: Health and
mortality among elderly populations, edited by Graziella Caselli and
Alan D. Lopez. 1996. 21-38 pp. Clarendon Press: Oxford, England;
International Union for the Scientific Study of Population [IUSSP]:
Liège, Belgium. In Eng.
The author examines some of the
problems associated with defining when old age begins. He looks at
differences among societies and cultures as well as changes over time
within them. Differences between societies that have experienced the
process of demographic aging and those that have not yet done so are
also discussed. The implications of the aging of societies for the
study of demography are considered.
Correspondence: P.
Laslett, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social
Structure, 27 Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1QA, England.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:40020 Mackey, Wade C. The
"demographic transition" in relation to cultural evolution: a
candidate for paradigmatic imperialism. Mankind Quarterly, Vol.
37, No. 1, Fall 1996. 61-75 pp. Washington, D.C. In Eng.
"A
major principle widely accepted in sociology and demography has been
the phenomenon known as the `demographic transition' wherein a culture
with high birth rates and high death rates evolves into one with high
birth rates and low(ering) death rates, and then stabilizes at both low
birth rates and low death rates. Although the transition has occurred
in a number of countries, it is not certain that every population will
necessarily follow that trajectory. Evidence is offered to suggest
alternate pathways. The consequences of such alternatives upon cultural
evolution are discussed."
Correspondence: W. C.
Mackey, Southeastern Community College, West Burlington, IA 52601.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:40021 White, Paul; Jackson, Peter.
(Re)theorising population geography. International Journal of
Population Geography, Vol. 1, No. 2, Dec 1995. 111-23 pp. Chichester,
England. In Eng.
"Population geography has become separated
from other branches of human geography by not engaging strongly with
recent debates in social theory. The reasons for this partly lie in the
wealth of data that population geographers have available to them
concerning their major interest--demographic events....A case is made
here for population geographers to consider in particular three areas
of social theoretic debate--social construction theories, realist ideas
on extensive and intensive research, and the politics of position.
Suggestions are made as to what a (re)theorised population geography
might look like."
Correspondence: P. White, University
of Sheffield, Department of Geography, Sheffield S10 2TN, England.
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.
62:40022 Equipe de Recherche Transition de la
Fecondité et Santé de la Reproduction [ETS] (Marseilles,
France). A scientific project. [Projet scientifique.]
ETS Notes et Projets, No. 1, Apr 1996. 17 pp. Equipe de Recherche
Transition de la Fécondité et Santé de la
Reproduction [ETS]: Paris, France; Institut Français de
Recherche Scientifique pour le Développement en
Coopération, ORSTOM Editions: Paris, France. In Fre.
This
report describes how a research team was established at ORSTOM in 1994.
The team's main areas of concern were the fertility transition and
reproductive health. The objective of this initiative was, in
cooperation with research institutions in developing countries, to
develop interdisciplinary research on the conditions and determinants
of controlling population growth and improving reproductive health.
Particular attention was given to the impact of population and health
policies and to changes that affect the structure of
families.
Correspondence: Equipe de Recherche Transition de
la Fécondité et Santé de la Reproduction,
ORSTOM/LPE, Case 10, Centre St. Charles, 3 place Victor Hugo, 13331
Marseilles Cedex 3, France. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
62:40023 Heald, Suzette. The
power of sex: some reflections on the Caldwells' "African
sexuality" thesis. Africa, Vol. 65, No. 4, 1995. 489-505 pp.
Edinburgh, Scotland. In Eng. with sum. in Fre.
Using a primarily
anthropological approach, the author examines data on the people of
Eastern Africa to question some of the assumptions on which the
Caldwells have based their proposed model of an African sexual system.
She argues that "their views fail to grasp the way sexual
restraints and restrictions form the basis of the moral order in East
African societies. Their model of a distinctively African sexual system
overemphasises descent in a way that systematically underplays the
importance of marriage and reduces ancestor cults to exclusive concern
with lineage, reproduction and continuity. By contrast, it is argued
with reference to the Gisu of Uganda, ancestral beliefs in their
general form are associated with the overall templates for correct
social living and these hinge not on lineality but on sexuality and its
control. In this light, most East African cultures can be labelled
`respect cultures', in that they see their social orders as rooted in
respect, respect which implies deference, attention to proper decorum
and above all self-restraint. The rules problematise sexuality. The
article then turns to the sacred power attributed to coitus
itself."
Correspondence: S. Heald, University of
Lancaster, Department of Sociology, Lancaster LA1 4YW, England.
Location: New York Public Library, New York, NY.
62:40024 Lenoir, Remi. The
invention of demography and the birth of the state. [L'invention
de la démographie et la formation de l'état.] Actes de la
Recherche en Sciences Sociales, No. 108, Jun 1995. 36-61, 86-7 pp.
Paris, France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng; Ger.
"The sole aim of
this article is to look at one of the social sciences which has always
seen itself as a tool for state management and a means of knowing
society and to bring out the mechanisms that serve to constitute the
categories of this thought, their underlying problematics and the
issues in which they have a stake. The analysis attempts to construct
the social space in which...demographic discourse is produced and
diffused....It remains that the broad scientific and political
consensus enjoyed by demography can be explained in part by the nature
of the categories it uses, the same as those used by government
registry offices, and the assumptions that go with them, categories
instituted and consecrated by the State, then, and used from the
viewpoint of the State."
Location: Princeton
University Library (FST).
62:40025 Nash, Alan. Population
geography. Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 20, No. 2, Jun 1996.
203-14 pp. London, England. In Eng.
"This is the last of three
reports discussing major avenues of progress in the alleviation of
population geography's poor reputation. The first examined the route of
policy-relevant research, the second considered the importance of sound
scholarship and, as promised, this report will explore the part that
can be played by improved communication and dissemination of our
work...."
Correspondence: A. Nash, Concordia
University, Department of Geography, Graduate Program in Geography and
Public Policy, 1455 de Maisonneuve West, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8,
Canada. Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
62:40026 Tyler, Carl W.
Contributions of Alexander D. Langmuir to the epidemiologic study
of population change and family planning. American Journal of
Epidemiology, Vol. 144, No. 8, Suppl., Oct 15, 1996. 51-7 pp.
Baltimore, Maryland. In Eng.
This article documents the
contribution of the eminent American epidemiologist Alexander D.
Langmuir to the study of population change and family planning.
Particular attention is paid to his work during the 1960s on the
application of epidemiological techniques to the study of contraceptive
safety and effectiveness and to the evaluation of family planning
programs.
Correspondence: C. W. Tyler, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, Public Health Practice Program Office, Mailstop
E42, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30333. Location:
Princeton University Library (SZ).
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.
62:40027 Bocquier, Philippe.
Event history analysis using STATA software. [L'analyse des
enquêtes biographiques à l'aide du logiciel STATA.]
Documents et Manuels du CEPED, No. 4, ISBN 2-87762-093-X. Jul 1996.
xii, 208 pp. Centre Français sur la Population et le
Développement [CEPED]: Paris, France. In Fre.
The purpose of
this manual is to introduce researchers in the social sciences and
related disciplines to some of the techniques developed by demographers
to analyze data over time. The author first introduces the concepts of
time and cause. Next, the logic of multivariate analysis is explained
through simple statistical regression and the model of logistical
regression. The concepts of risk over time and of the truncation of
events are then explained. The author builds on these ideas to discuss
event history analysis and to show how the events an individual
experiences over time can be analyzed in relation to each other. A
software diskette is included to enable the reader to apply these
concepts to his or her own data.
Correspondence: Centre
Français sur la Population et le Développement, 15 rue de
l'Ecole de Médecine, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:40028 Gérard, Hubert; Piché,
Victor. The sociology of populations. [La sociologie
des populations.] Universités Francophones, ISBN 2-7606-1655-X.
1995. 518 pp. Presses de l'Université de Montréal:
Montreal, Canada. In Fre.
This is a collection of articles by
various authors, some of which have been translated from the original
English. The articles spell out the boundaries of what the compilers
define as the subdiscipline of social demography. There are sections on
fertility and family, mortality and health, migration, age and sex as
social concepts, and population and development. The geographical focus
is worldwide.
Correspondence: Presses de
l'Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succursale
Centre-Ville, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:40029 McVey, Wayne W.; Kalbach, Warren
E. Canadian population. ISBN 0-17-603432-3. LC
95-168585. 1995. x, 468 pp. Nelson Canada: Scarborough, Canada. In Eng.
This is a basic introductory textbook on the study of the
population of Canada. "Our objective has been to produce a book
that would provide, in a single source and as simply as it is possible
to deal with a rather complex phenomenon, the basic information about
Canada's population--its origins, the factors underlying its growth and
geographical distribution, and the demographic, social, and economic
characteristics of both individuals and
families."
Correspondence: Nelson Canada, 1120
Birchmount Road, Scarborough, Ontario M1K 5G4, Canada. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:40030 Namboodiri, Krishnan. A
primer of population dynamics. Plenum Series on Demographic
Methods and Population Analysis, ISBN 0-306-45338-X. 1996. xii, 367 pp.
Plenum Press: New York, New York/London, England. In Eng.
This
basic textbook is intended for readers with no formal exposure to the
scientific study of population. It is presented in question-and-answer
format and includes an extensive index and glossary. There are chapters
on population theories and conceptual schemes; demography, demographic
data, and the nature of population change; mortality; fertility;
migration; population composition; population distribution; family and
household; population, food, and the environment; population growth and
economic development; and population policy.
Correspondence:
Plenum Press, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013-1578.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:40031 Réseau Interuniversitaire
Africain pour le Développement et les Etudes de Population
[RIADEP] (Lomé, Togo). Population questions for
Africa. [Questions de population pour l'Afrique.] Dossiers
Pédagogiques du RIADEP, No. 1, [1996]. xxv, [300] pp.
Lomé, Togo. In Fre.
This introductory textbook on African
population questions is designed for the nonspecialist, and consists of
30 chapters prepared by African scholars on various demographic topics
of relevance to Africa. The topics include historic population trends,
the demographic transition, data collection and analysis, health,
fertility, family planning, migration, population projections,
education, economic growth, natural resources and the environment,
employment, population policy and development planning, population
education, and religion.
Correspondence: Réseau
Interuniversitaire Africain pour le Développement et les Etudes
de Population, Université du Benin, Unité de Recherche
Démographique, B.P. 12971, Lomé, Togo. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
