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  • Biodemography of Aging

    Determinants of Healthy Life Span and Longevity

    by Anatoliy I. Yashin, Eric Stallard, Igor Akushevich, Liubov S. Arbeeva, Konstantin G. Arbeev, Irina Culminskaya, Mikhail Kovtun, Julia Kravchenko, Alexander M. Kulminski, Frank A. Sloan, Svetlana V. Ukraintseva, Deqing Wu, Kenneth C. Land ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume is a critical exposition of the data and analyses from a full decade of rigorous research into how age-related changes at the individual level, along with other factors, contribute to morbidity, disability and mortality risks at the broader population level. After summarizing the state of our knowledge in the field, individual chapters offer enlightening discussion on a range of key ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Inverse Projection Techniques

    Old and New Approaches

    Edited by Elisabetta Barbi, Salvatore Bertino, Eugenio Sonnino ...
    Series series Demographic Research Monographs
    Inverse Projection is a method for estimating accurate demographic indicators of a population where vital registration data are available, but population censuses are lacking or unreliable. The book offers an overview of the present state of methodological development in the field of inverse projection techniques. In the various chapters of the book, leading experts in demography and related ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Frontiers of Applied Demography

    Edited by David A. Swanson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book details cutting-edge methods and findings that may shape the future of applied demography. Inside, readers will discover new insights into the databases, substantive issues, and methodological approaches that can help them to improve how they use demography in decision making and planning problems in both public and private settings.The topics and perspectives are found in the book’s 23 ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • The Demography of Europe

    Edited by Gerda Neyer, Gunnar Andersson, Hill Kulu, Laura Bernardi, Christoph Bühler ...
    Over the past decades Europe has witnessed fundamental changes of its population dynamics and population structure. Fertility has fallen below replacement level in almost all European countries, while childbearing behavior and family formation have become more diverse. Life expectancy has increased in Western Europe for both females and males, but has been declining for men in some Eastern ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus

    Rereading the Principle of Population

    by Alison Bashford, Joyce E. Chaplin ...
    An ambitious global history that fundamentally alters our understanding of MalthusThe New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood. First published ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Population Aging, Fertility and Social Security

    by Akira Yakita ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive, theory-based analysis of current issues in population economics. It addresses the most important problems caused by demographic changes using the popular overlapping generations growth model by Samuelson and Diamond. Taking into account families’ fertility decisions, it examines not only the demographic changes due to longer life expectancy but also the effects ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Germany's New Security Demographics

    Military Recruitment in the Era of Population Aging

    by Wenke Apt ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Military recruitment will become more difficult in times of demographic aging. The question arises whether demographic change will constrain the capacity of aging states like Germany to conduct foreign policy and pursue their national security interests. Since contemporary military operations still display a strong human element, particular scrutiny is given to the empirical analysis of the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Aging in Hong Kong

    A Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Jean Woo ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    With the longest life expectancy for men and the second longest for women, Hong Kong typifies our planet’s aging population. The daily lives of its older adults closely match the advantages and disadvantages experienced by urban elders in other developed countries. For these reasons, Hong Kong’s elderly serve as a salient guide to older people’s social, psychological, and healthcare needs—concerns ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Population Reconstruction

    Edited by Gerrit Bloothooft, Peter Christen, Kees Mandemakers, Marijn Schraagen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book addresses the problems that are encountered, and solutions that have been proposed, when we aim to identify people and to reconstruct populations under conditions where information is scarce, ambiguous, fuzzy and sometimes erroneous.The process from handwritten registers to a reconstructed digitized population consists of three major phases, reflected in the three main sections of this ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Dynamic Demographic Analysis

    Edited by Robert Schoen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume presents state of the art analyses from scholars dealing with a range of demographic topics of current concern, including longevity, mortality and morbidity, migration, and how population composition impacts intergenerational transfer schemes. New approaches are applied to such issues as measuring changes in cohort survivorship in low mortality populations, patterns of mortality ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Rural Aging in 21st Century America

    by J. V. Oh Edmund ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book investigates sociological, demographic and geographic aspects of aging in rural and nonmetropolitan areas of the United States. Population aging is one of the most important trends of the 20th and 21st centuries, and it is occurring worldwide, especially in more developed countries such as the United States. Population aging is more rapid in rural than urban areas of the U.S. In 2010, 15 ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Violence, Statistics, and the Politics of Accounting for the Dead

    Edited by Samrat Sinha, Elizabeth Minor, Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the methodological problems of accounting for the dead in armed conflicts as well as how the process itself is open to manipulation and controversy. Inspired by the work of the International Practitioner Network of casualty recording organizations, the book features thematic analysis, case studies and historical discussion on the use of the body count towards political, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD