Population and Society

Preface
Section 1: World Population: Past, Present, Future
1. Carl Hub: "How Many People have Ever Lived on Earth?"
2. John Cleland: "Population growth in the 21st century: cause for crisis or celebration?"
Section 2: Perspectives on Population, Environment, and Resources
3. William Peterson: Marxism and the Population Question: Theory and Practice
4. Nathan Keyfitz: Are There Ecological Limits to Population?
Section 3: Mortality and Population Health
a. Mortality Dynamics in Industrialized Societies
5. Jay Olshansky and A. Brian Ault: The Fourth Stage of the Epidemiologic Transition: The Age of Delayed Degenerative Diseases
6. K.G. Manton and Burton Singer: What's the Fuss about Compression of Mortality?
b. Mortality Change in Developing Nations
7. Joachim S. Kibridge: Population Growth, Poverty and Health
8. John C. Caldwell and Pat Caldwell: The African AIDS Epidemic
c. Mortality Inequalities
9. Thomas T. Perls and Ruth C. Fretts: Why Women Live Longer than Men
10. Richard G. Wilkinson: The Epidemiological Transition: From Material Scarcity to Social Disadvantage?
Section 4: Fertility
a. Explanations of Fertility Changes
11. John Bongaarts and Robert G. Potter: Fertility, Biology, and Behaviour: An Analysis of the Proximate Determinants: Introduction
12. Kingsley Davis: The Theory of Change and Response in Modern Demographic History
13. John C. Caldwell: Towards a Restatement of Demographic Transition Theory
14. Ron Lesthaeghe and Johan Surkyn: Cultural Dynamics and Economic Theories of Fertility Change
15. Nancy Folbre: Of Patriarchy Born: The Political Economy of Fertility Decisions
b. Fertility Patterns in Industrialized and Developing Nations
16. Lincoln H. Day: Recent Fertility Trends in Industrialized Countries: Toward Fluctuating or a Stable Pattern?
17. Bryant Robey, Shea O'Rutstein, and Leo Morris: The Fertility Decline in Developing Countries
Section 5: Population Aging
18. Ansley J. Coale: How a Population Ages or Grows Younger
19. Peter G. Peterson: Gray Dawn: The Global Aging Crisis
Section 6: Migration and Urbanization
20. Wilbur Zelinsky: The Hypothesis of the Mobility Transition
21. Terence G. McGee and C.J. Griffiths: Global Urbanization: Towards the Twenty-First Century
b. International Migration
22. Stephen Castles and Mark J. Miller: The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World: Introduction
23. Douglas S. Massey, Joaquin Arango, Graeme Hugo, Ali Kouaouci, Adela Pellegrino, and J. Edward Taylor: Theories of International Migration: A Review and Appraisal
Section 7: Population Change and Policy Responses
24. Gary P. Freeman: Can Liberal States Control Unwanted Migration?
25. Malcolm Potts: The Unmet Need for Family Planning
Credits

Frank Trovato has many publications in professional journals, and numerous discussion papers on topics spanning diverse areas of demography and sociology,including mortality, sex and marital status differences in cause-specific mortality, the social demography of racial, immigrant and ethnic groups, fertility, nuptiality, and migration phenomena in the context of Canada and other industrialized nations. With C.F. Grinstaff, he is co-editor of Canada's Population: Introduction to Concepts and Issues (OUP, 1994). In 1990 he co-edited Ethnic Demography: Canadian Immigrant, Ethnic and Cultural Variations with S.S. Halli and Leo Driedger. Dr. Trovator is a member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, The Population Association, and the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association. From 1985 to 1989 he edited Canadian Studies in Population, the offical journal of the Canadian Population Society.

Special Features

• Each section begins with an indepth introduction by the editor
• Contains classic and contemporary readings
• Provides a broad overview of population studies
• Issues dealt with in the text include: world population; population and the environment; mortality dynamics, mortality change in developing countries, mortality and women, and mortality and social class; fertility; population aging; migration; and population change and policy