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.
64:10001 Furedi, Frank.
Population and development: a critical introduction. ISBN
0-312-17656-2. LC 97-16710. 1997. 201 pp. St. Martin's Press: New York,
New York. In Eng.
This book is concerned with the debate over
whether the current rate of global population growth poses a threat to
humanity. The author argues that "the western preoccupation with
population growth reveals more about the internal concerns of western
societies than the socio-economic development of the south. He suggests
that attempts to establish a causal link between increases in
population and poverty lead to a pragmatic, even manipulative, approach
to the issue of development. Examining a broad range of key debates and
controversies--the `population bomb' in Asia, the culture of a distinct
regime of African fertility, the role of education in stabilizing
population growth in Kerala--he contends that the marginalization of
the goal of development is the outcome of a narrow concern with
population policies. He fears that the recent shift of the population
agenda towards the problems of the environment, gender equality and
reproductive health is informed by a similar opportunistic
pragmatism."
Correspondence: St. Martin's Press, 175
Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
64:10002 Livi-Bacci, Massimo. A
concise history of world population. 2nd ed. ISBN 0-631-20454-7.
LC 96-34353. 1997. xiv, 249 pp. Blackwell: Malden,
Massachusetts/Oxford, England. In Eng.
This is a fully revised
edition of a general history of the human population that examines the
changing patterns of population growth and the effects of migration,
wars, disease, technology, and culture. "The author provides a new
account of the causes and consequences of European migration and
colonization, and of the interactive influence of nature, place and
space on settlement and population dynamics. He has revised his
discussion of the relationship between development, affluence and
population change. The final chapters of the book have been entirely
recast to give an extensive analysis of the carrying capacity of the
planet in relation to a possible doubling of population during the next
fifty years. The author examines the effects of changes in relative
affluence and population growth on food production, resources and the
natural environment. We are entering a new historical phase, [the
author] suggests, in which population growth will cease to produce
economies of scale and may start to produce overwhelming diseconomies,
the result of which could be environmental collapse and human
catastrophe. The underlying purpose of this book is to understand the
links between nature, culture and population, and to seek thereby the
means of avoiding such an outcome."
For the first edition,
published in 1992, see 58:30003.
Correspondence: Blackwell
Publishers, 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148. 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.
64:10003 Healey, Kaye.
Population. Issues for the Nineties, Vol. 30, ISBN
1-875682-35-X. 1994. 40 pp. Spinney Press: Balmain, Australia. In Eng.
This is an introduction to population issues in the world in
general and in Australia in particular. There are chapters on world
population, population and immigration in Australia, and the politics
of family planning.
Correspondence: Spinney Press, 226
Darling Street, Balmain NSW 2041, Australia. Location: Harvard
University Library, Cambridge, MA.
64:10004 Kapitsa, S. A model of
world population growth as an experiment in systematic research.
[Model' rosta naseleniya zemli kak opyt sistemnogo issledovaniya.]
Voprosy Statistiki, No. 8, 1997. 46-57 pp. Moscow, Russia. In Rus.
The author suggests that the worldwide demographic changes in the
second half of the twentieth century, coupled with the growth in the
volume of available data, have raised the question of whether it is
possible to articulate general laws of demographic development.
However, the close relationship between population and socioeconomic
development makes it difficult to use standard demographic methods to
address this issue. In the author's view, it is necessary to look
outside the narrow confines of demography for methods of analyzing
population dynamics on a global level. After describing several
different methodologies, the author introduces a mathematical model to
illustrate an interdisciplinary approach to the study of human
population trends.
Correspondence: S. Kapitsa, Russian
Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physical Problems, Leninsky Pr. 14,
117901 Moscow, Russia. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
64:10005 Talwar, Prem P.
Demographic research in India: has it benefitted FW programme.
Demography India, Vol. 26, No. 1, Jan-Jun 1997. 123-37 pp. Delhi,
India. In Eng.
This is the text of the third George Simmons
Memorial Lecture, presented in Coimbatore, India, in February 1997.
"Since the person in whose memory this lecture is being delivered
has contributed immensely to research in the field of population and
that too in India, I feel that it was befitting me to speak on
demographic research in India and how it has benefitted [the] family
planning programme. My choice of this topic is also dictated by my
feeling that we, the demographers have not...used our potential to help
the country to solve our number one
problem."
Correspondence: P. P. Talwar, Population,
Health and Family Planning Programme, B-1/1027, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi
110 070, India. 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.
64:10006 Avery, John. Progress,
poverty and population: re-reading Condorcet, Godwin and Malthus.
ISBN 0-7146-4750-0. LC 97-30117. 1997. xvi, 151 pp. Frank Cass: London,
England. In Eng.
The author reviews the debate of the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries between the optimists of the
Enlightenment, such as Condorcet and Godwin, who believed that science,
reason, and education, together with the principles of political
liberty and equality, would soon lead humanity into a new era of
happiness; and the pessimists, such as Malthus, who believed that the
benefits of scientific progress would be eaten up by a growing
population.
Correspondence: Frank Cass Publishers, Newbury
House, 900 Eastern Avenue, London IG2 7HH, England. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:10007 Bonneuil, Noël.
Games, equilibria, and population regulation under viability
constraints: an interpretation of the work of the anthropologist
Fredrik Barth. [Jeux, équilibres, et régulation des
populations sous contraintes de viabilité: une lecture de
l'oeuvre de l'anthropologue Fredrik Barth.] Population, Vol. 52, No. 4,
Jul-Aug 1997. 947-75 pp. Paris, France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng; Spa.
"The anthropologist Fredrik Barth has drawn on the
mathematical notions of equilibrium in dynamic systems theory and in
game theory to show how social forms are generated by individual
interactions. In this article, however, it is suggested that what is
involved is less equilibria than viability....The exact future of a
system cannot be predicted, but it is possible to identify the largest
set of states from which there is at least one possibility of remaining
within the constraints and thus of surviving. It is the law of
regulation which provides the set of viable controls for each state.
Other applications of viability theory in demography are presented in
appendices."
Correspondence: N. Bonneuil, Institut
National d'Etudes Démographiques, 27 rue du Commandeur, 75675
Paris Cedex 14, France. E-mail: bonneuil@cilaos.ined.fr. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:10008 Greene, Margaret E.; Biddlecom, Ann
E. Absent and problematic men: demographic accounts of
male reproductive roles. Population Council Policy Research
Division Working Paper, No. 103, 1997. 63 pp. Population Council,
Policy Research Division: New York, New York. In Eng.
"Both
men and women make important contributions to the production of
children, yet demographic studies of fertility and family planning have
tended to focus on women alone. This paper traces the development of
demography's emphasis on women and describes how the limitations of its
theoretical approaches to reproduction and empirical neglect of men
have been mutually reinforcing. The paper is structured around four
aims: (1) to describe why men have had a relatively low profile as
subjects in demographic research on reproduction; (2) to explain
growing interest in studying men's roles; (3) to evaluate existing
research on men in developing countries; and (4) to suggest directions
for future research on men's reproductive roles."
This paper
was originally presented at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the Population
Association of America.
Correspondence: Population Council,
Policy Research Division, One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY
10017. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:10009 Klupt, M. The
demographic development of Russia: history and theory.
[Demograficheskoe razvitie Rossii: istoriya i teoriya.] Voprosy
Statistiki, No. 3, 1997. 45-9 pp. Moscow, Russia. In Rus.
The
author describes demographic trends in Russia in recent years,
discussing the relevance of the demographic transition theory to the
Russian experience. The relationships among social, economic, and
political events and demographic changes are examined. The author also
considers whether Russia's recent demographic experiences will give
rise to new demographic theories.
Correspondence: M. Klupt,
Sankt-Peterburzskii Universitet Ekonomiki i Finansov, Kanal Giboedova
30/32, 191023 St. Petersburg, Russia. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
64:10010 Lesthaeghe, R. Imre
Lakatos' views on theory development: applications to the field of
fertility theories. IPD Working Paper, No. 1997-1, 1997. 21 pp.
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Interface Demography: Brussels, Belgium;
Universiteit Gent, Vakgroep Bevolkingswetenschappen: Gent, Belgium. In
Eng.
Some aspects of the process of reassessing demographic
theories are examined, with particular reference to theories concerning
fertility. In particular, the author considers the strategy of
progressive program shifts as expounded by Imre Lakatos, and the
strategy of inductive knowledge of comparative reliability developed by
L. Jonathan Cohen, and outlines their relevance to demography. The
changes in family formation, union dissolution, and family
reconstitution that have occurred in many Western nations since World
War II, as well as the historical European fertility transition, are
used to examine how demographic theories evolve and change. The author
concludes that, in the light of Lakatos's principles, current theories
concerning fertility change are largely complementary rather than
conflicting.
This paper was originally presented at the 1997 Annual
Meeting of the Population Association of
America.
Correspondence: Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
Interface Demography, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium. E-mail:
esvbalck@vnet3.vub.ac.be. 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.
64:10011 Guinnane, Timothy W.
Interdisciplinary perspectives on Irish economic and demographic
history. Historical Methods, Vol. 30, No. 4, Fall 1997. 173-81 pp.
Washington, D.C. In Eng.
"In this article I look at...how
other historians have affected the research of Ireland's economic and
demographic historians. In all likelihood, social, cultural, and other
historians have learned from economists and demographers, but whether
and how much is for them to say. The term interdisciplinary has many
meanings. In the next section, I describe its meaning in this article
and how interdisciplinary research can be valuable even in the narrow
sense used here. I go on to discuss three concrete examples of recent
economic and demographic history research that has profited from work
in other fields."
Correspondence: T. W. Guinnane, Yale
University, Department of Economics, New Haven, CT 06520. 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.
64:10012 De Bartolo, Giuseppe.
Elements of demographic analysis and applied demography.
[Elementi di analisi demografica e demografia applicata.] 2nd ed. ISBN
88-86067-41-0. 1997. [253] pp. Università degli Studi della
Calabria, Centro Editoriale e Librario: Rende, Italy. In Ita.
This
is a textbook designed for second- and third-year students majoring in
economics and social sciences at the undergraduate level. The first ten
chapters are devoted to the basics of demographic analysis, including
principles of cohort and period analysis, demographic processes,
population growth, reproduction, and population projections. Empirical
examples are included. The final three chapters focus on the
application of demographic analysis to the fields of marketing and
human resource management.
Correspondence:
Università degli Studi della Calabria, Centro Editoriale e
Librario, 87036 Rende, Italy. Author's E-mail: debart@unical.it.
Source: Author's announcement.
64:10013 Leridon, Henri. Evolving
population pyramids: a program of population projections.
[Pyramides animées: un programme de projections
démographiques.] Méthodes et Savoirs, No. 1, 1997. 26 pp.
Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques [INED]: Paris, France.
In Fre.
This computer program is supplied on a 3.5-inch floppy
disk, accompanied by a brief description and instruction manual. It is
designed to calculate the changing age structure of a population given
certain assumptions about fertility, mortality, or the rate of
population growth. The output is shown as age pyramids. The program is
primarily educational in nature and does not take every possible
variable, such as migration, into account. It is written in
Turbo-Pascal and is meant to be run on a personal computer under DOS or
Windows. An English-language version of the program is also available
on a floppy disk.
Correspondence: Institut National
d'Etudes Démographiques, 27 rue du Commandeur, 75675 Paris Cedex
14, France. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:10014 Peters, Gary L.; Larkin, Robert
P. Population geography: problems, concepts, and
prospects. 5th ed. ISBN 0-7872-1816-2. LC 96-78651. 1997. xx, 300
pp. Kendall/Hunt: Dubuque, Iowa. In Eng.
"Our purpose is to
provide students with an introduction to population geography, a task
that requires drawing upon materials from many disciplines and
integrating them into a readable text. We begin with population growth
in an effort to generate an interest in the study of population.
Following that, we look at demographic data, which is so essential to
helping us understand population processes. Population distribution and
composition are considered, followed by discussions of theories of
population growth and change. After that, the focus turns to the basic
demographic processes--mortality, fertility, and migration. The
migration discussion in turn leads to a discussion of urbanization. The
next two chapters examine relationships between population,
environment, and food supply. A final chapter illustrates some
practical applications and case studies. A computer disk containing
additional statistical information is provided with this edition. The
tables included on this disk are: United States Statistical Data by
State, Demographic Information for Major Metropolitan Areas of the
United States, [and] World Statistical Information. The computer disk
is formatted for computers in Excel 4.0."
For the fourth
edition, published in 1993, see 60:10027.
Correspondence:
Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 4050 Westmark Drive, P.O. Box 1840,
Dubuque, IA 52004-1840. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
64:10015 Rocha-Trindade, Maria B.; Cordeiro,
Ana P.; Horta, Ana P. B.; Madeira, Ana I.; Rego, Maria do C. C.;
Viegas, Telma. The sociology of migrations.
[Sociologia das migrações.] ISBN 972-674-162-9. 1995. 410
pp. Universidade Aberta: Lisbon, Portugal. In Por.
This is a
multimedia introduction to the study of migration, consisting of a
written text, a videocassette with 10 programs, and three audio
cassettes with 6 programs, prepared by a team working at the Centro de
Estudos das Migrações e das Relações
Interculturais at the Universidade Aberta in Lisbon. The total package
covers the social and theoretical aspects of migration, as well as
applied studies focusing on migration concerning Portugal, and includes
a comprehensive list of relevant legal documents. It is designed
primarily for graduate students in sociology. Considerable attention is
given to the many Portuguese communities overseas as well as to the new
phenomenon of immigration into Portugal.
Correspondence:
Universidade Aberta, Rua da Escola Politécnica 141-147,
1250 Lisbon, Portugal. Author's E-mail: mbrt@univ-ab.pt. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
