Tim Dyson; Population and Development: The Demographic Transition

Human population growth and the demographic transition

The world and most regions and countries are experiencing unprecedentedly rapid demographic change. The most obvious example of this change is the huge expansion of human numbers: four billion have been added since 1950. Projections for the next half century expect a highly divergent world, with stagnation or potential decline in parts of the developed world and continued rapid growth in the le...

Population policy and the demographic transition: performance, prospects, and options.

in countries that comprise the majority of the world’s population, the demographic transition has now reached its putative endpoint: a state marked by low fertility and low mortality. it is expected that the rest of the world’s countries are headed in the same direction, prompted by modernizing social change and nudged by looming physical constraints. what were the roles of deliberate policies,...

Demographic Transition in Japan and Rural Development

Society, health and population during the demographic transition

WILLIAM H. HUFFMAN, Robert Fludd and the end of the Renaissance, London and New York, Routledge, 1988, 8vo, pp. xii, 252, illus., £30.00. Robert Fludd's encyclopaedic publications with their lavish and fascinating illustrations have frequently been seen as the keys to an intellectual world we have lost. His Metaphysical, physical and technical history of each cosmos, the macrocosm and the micro...

Gender, Demographic Transition and the Economics of Family Size: Population Policy for a Human-Centred Development