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Population Growth and Sustainable Transport in China
This book discusses the links between population growth, migration and the transport system in China. It first reviews the theories concerning the...
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Population Growth and Urban–Rural Structure
The urban–rural structure of the population has been a key issue in China for several decades. In the new era of social development, China has put...
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Fertility, Population Growth, and Population Composition
Fertility has become an increasingly important driver of population growth. This is particularly true at advanced stages of the demographic...
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Analyzing Euler and Süßmilch’s Population Growth Model
In 1761, the German demographer Johann Peter Süßmilch published a simple population growth model that starts with a couple, in the eighth chapter of...
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America’s Population Growth Future
The 2020 U.S. population census recently reported a total population for the country of 331 million people and a growth rate of 7.4 percent between...
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China’s Ageing Population: Policy Implications for Economic Growth
China’s huge population and its large-scale rural surplus labour migrating to the cities were key drivers of economic growth in the 1980s and 1990s....
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Exploring the Dynamics of the Elderly Population and Economic Growth: A Comparative Analysis Across Continents
This paper explores the cause-and-effect relationship between the elderly population and global economic growth, focusing on different continents. A...
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Is Economic Growth Good for Population Health? A Critical Review
A large multidisciplinary literature discusses the relationship between economic growth and population health. The idea that economic growth is good...
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Heat and drought reduce subnational population growth in the global tropics
In recent decades, the possibility that climate change will lead to depopulation of vulnerable areas in the global tropics via migration, mortality,...
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Population growth and deforestation in Amazonas, Brazil, from 1985 to 2020
Amazonas state represents 37% of the Amazônia biome in Brazil. Although Amazonas remains 98% forested, its contribution to annual biome deforestation...
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Slower Population Growth: The Goods and the Bads
Results from the 2020 population censuses in the United States and China recently made headlines. In the U.S., the population increase of 7.4 percent...
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Too Hot for Climate Change: Limiting Population Growth
Limiting population growth appears simply too hot to handle for many who are concerned about climate change, global warming, environmental...
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Coupled Demographic Dynamics of Herds and Households Constrain Livestock Population Growth in Pastoral Systems
One of the dominant narratives about pastoral systems is that livestock populations have the potential to grow exponentially and destroy common-pool...
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Inequality, population growth, and hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa
Despite increasing population and inequality in most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and their tendencies to aggravate hunger there is still...
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Population Growth Diversity Continuing in the Twenty-first Century
While the world’s population of 8 billion is continuing to increase and projected to reach 9 billion by 2037 and 10 billion by 2058, considerable...
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Comparative Population History of Eastern Asia
This book compares the population history of Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China to understand such emergent changes as extremely low fertility in Korea...
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Toward a ‘reverse density dividend’? Population growth and socioeconomic evolution of Greek districts before and after crisis
Social dynamics and economic cycles have driven population growth in Europe toward heterogeneous and hardly predictable spatial patterns. To assess...
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Growth and spatio-temporal variation of various demographic characteristics of the Scheduled Tribe population in Koch Bihar district, West Bengal, India
The Koch Bihar district has the very least concentration of Scheduled Tribe population in West Bengal. Only 0.64 per cent of the total population of...
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Population Stabilization, Not Growth, Is the Key to America’s Future
While the Supreme Court, Congress and the White House are embroiled over the constitutional right of women to abortion, a larger, more consequential...