Principles of Population and Development With Illustrations from Asia and Africa

by Crook, Nigel; Timaeus, Ian M.

• ISBN13: 9780198774884
• ISBN10: 0198774885
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book is a major new introduction to population studies. Each chapter introduces fundamental ideas and then moves on to empirical and quantitative material and case studies. Demographic techniques are explained fully in boxes.

Table of Contents

List of Boxes	viii	(1)
List of Figures	ix	(2)
List of Tables	xi
Part I. Population and Subsistence: Theories and Evidence	1	(50)
1. Theories of Population and Subsistence	3	(20)
2. Adjustment of Households to Food Supplies and Other Resources	23	(28)
Part II. Population in the Perspective of Time	51	(42)
3. The Changing Balance of Births and Deaths	53	(27)
4. The Environmental Impact of Population	80	(13)
Part III. Political Economy, Famine, and Disease Control	93	(34)
5. Famine and the Prevention of Mass Mortality	95	(14)
6. The Political Economy of Health	109	(18)
Part IV. Political Economy and Birth Control	127	(30)
7. Fertility Decline in the Course of Development	129	(11)
8. Case Studies of Fertility Transition in Asia	140	(17)
Part V. The Demographic Impact of Industrialization	157	(58)
9. Urbanization and Migration	159	(35)
10. Population, Employment, and Education	194	(21)
Further Reading	215	(6)
Index	221