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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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Changing Issues in Population Research in India
As a sub-field of sociology, sociology of population deals with the social aspects of five demographic processes: nuptiality, fertility, mortality,...
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International Handbook of Population and Environment
This handbook presents a timely and comprehensive overview of theory, data, methods and research findings that connect human population dynamics and...
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Population Policy Models
This chapter provides an overview of population policy models and their use. After an initial discussion of the broad types of models used in the...
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Group-Focused Enmity in the Population: Legitimations for Right-Wing Threat Alliances
This chapter introduces the theoretical concept of Group-Focused Enmity, which centres on the ideology of inequality, in the sense of unequal worth,...
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Settlement Intentions of Floating Population
This chapter focuses on the second type of migration intentions—settlement intentions, an indicator that reflects the tendency of the floating...
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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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Map** Global Population Changes
The increase in greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activities is considered as the main cause of global warming (Stocker et al. 2013). The...
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Heterogeneous Influence of Socioeconomic Inequality on Population Health: A Cross-national Study
Prior studies have documented the negative impact of socioeconomic inequality on population health, but few studies have discussed the heterogeneous...
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Small Towns Ageing—Searching for Linkages Between Population Processes
The purpose of the present paper is to identify the changes in relations between the natural increase and the migration balance in the small towns of...
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The Road to Population Health: A Changing Society
The emergence of population health as a guiding force and strategic approach to addressing the health needs of a population is traced to developments...
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Perceptions of the Size of the Foreign-Born Population: Do Changes in Multicultural Policies Shape Beliefs?
Research has linked individual estimations of the size of the foreign-born population to attitudes about immigration. However, most studies focus on...
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Does Financial Inclusion Matter to Population Health? Insight From a Global Dataset
Currently, extensive empirical studies exist on the impact of financial inclusion on socio-economic outcomes such as economic growth, inequality, and...
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Travel Differences Between the Urban and Rural Population
The dualistic urban–rural structure has been a typical feature of China’s society in the past few decades, also being one of the roots of China’s...
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Population-Based Service Level and the Accessibility of Transport
With the development goal of building a people-oriented and sustainable transport system in China, service level and accessibility of transport...
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Population in Contemporary Eastern Asia
Details of fertility transition and policy interventions in Eastern Asia are examined. The trend of mortality transition and death tolls in...
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From the Ground Up: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Past Fertility and Population Narratives
Population dynamics form a crucial component of human narratives in the past. Population responses and adaptations not only tell us about the human...
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Boosted Regression Trees for Small-Area Population Forecasting
Small-area population forecasting, such as the forecasting of age/gender grou**s at the level of US Census Tracts, is challenged by thorny issues...
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Data Collection for Population Policies
This chapter offers an overview of the main data collection operations that support population policies. The characteristics of the three main data...
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From Particular Sociologies to Interdisiplinary Studies
As in other parts of the world, at the beginning of the 1980s, sociology in Mexico confronted new theoretical and methodological challenges. From...