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The Demography of Transforming Families
This book provides an up-to-date survey on the nature, causes, and patterns of family change. The traditional nuclear family has been replaced by a...
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Origins of ‘the gap’: perspectives on the historical demography of aboriginal victorians
Australia enjoys ninth place out of 190 countries on the United Nations Life Expectancy Index. Aboriginal Australians—as a fourth-world people within...
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What Led to the Decline of Child Labour in the European Periphery? A Cointegration Approach with Long Historical Data
The “traditional view” on the historical decline of child labour has emphasised the role of the approval of effective child labour (minimum working...
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Fertility of Immigrants: S. Dubuc
Fertility and immigration is a subject area of demography and population studies, investigating how the fertility behavior of immigrants and their...
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Introduction: Designing the Problematical and Theoretical Contours of Political Demography as Urban Governance Challenges
This book problematizes and contextualizes decades of urbanization, immigration and population growth in the overseas department of French Guyana...
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Exploring Popular Sentiments of U.S. Ethnoracial Demographic Change: A Research Brief
This study analyzes July 2021 poll data of more than 5500 California registered voters to examine how a racially diverse sample of people in a...
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The Establishment of the Agricultural Landscape of Central Sicily Between the Middle Neolithic and the Beginning of the Iron Age
The possible co-variation of human occupation and vegetation from the Middle Neolithic to the beginning of the Iron Age (7.5–2.8 ka BP) in Central...
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Trajectories and the New Do** Demography
In this chapter, we pull together some of the key themes and conclusions of the book, focusing on future developments of fitness do** and disrupted...
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3 Family Demography
Family demography is a subfield of demography and refers to the study of the changing nature of intergenerational and gender ties that bind...
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Demography of Population Health, Aging and Health Expenditures
This book provides theoretical and applied material for estimating vital parts of demography and health issues including the healthy aging process...
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Aging, Aging Populations and Welfare
As the world experiences a rapid increase in the aging population, it is essential to address the challenges and opportunities that arise as a...
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A Cohort Perspective on the Demography of Grandparenthood: Past, Present, and Future Changes in Race and Sex Disparities in the United States
How has the demography of grandparenthood changed over the last century? How have racial inequalities in grandparenthood changed, and how are they...
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29 Political Demography
Political demography addresses both the political determinants and the political consequences of demographic change. Over the past few decades the...
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Family Demography and Post-2015 Development Agenda in Africa
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the structure, determinants and consequences of changes in sub-Saharan African families, thereby...
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The Poetics of Massacre in Copper Age Croatia: Integrative Analysis of the Mass Grave at Potočani
Sometime around 4200 cal BCE, near the current town of Požega in eastern Croatia, a group of at least 41 individuals were killed and buried together...
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Introduction
Population processes, including migration, are complex and uncertain. We begin this book by providing a rationale for building Bayesian agent-based...
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Political Demography and Urban Governance in French Guyana Implications for Latin America and the Caribbean
This book analyzes decades of immigration–population growth and rapid urbanization as political-demography and urban-governance issues in French...
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Vulnerability to Climate Change and Adaptive Capacity from a Demographic Perspective
Human population is at the centre of the global climate system. The prominent contribution of demography in the field of climate change is in...
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22 Rural Demography
The world is becoming more urban, so what makes the study of rural demography relevant today? In this chapter, we argue that more than population...
