Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: SECTION 1. WORLD POPULATION: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE -- Chapter I. How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth? -- Carl Haub -- Chapter 2. Population Growth in the Twenty-First Century: Cause for Crisis or Celebration? -- John Cleland -- SECTION 2. PERSPECTIVES ON POPULATION, ENVIRONMENT, -- AND RESOURCES -- Chapter 3. Marxism and the Population Question: Theory and Practice -- William Petersen -- Chapter 4. Are There Ecological Limits to Population? -- Nathan Keyfitz -- SECTION 3. MORTALITY AND POPULATION HEALTH -- A. HEALTH AND MORTALITY DYNAMICS IN INDUSTRIALIZED SOCIETIES -- Chapter 5. The Fourth Stage of the Epidemiologic Transition: The Age of -- Delayed Degenerative Diseases -- S. Jay Olshansky and A. Brian Ault -- Chapter 6. What's the Fuss about Compression of Mortality? -- K. C. Manton and Burton Singer -- B. HEALTH AND MORTALITY DYNAMICS IN DEVELOPING NATIONS -- Chapter 7. Population Growth, Poverty, and Health -- Joachim S. Kibirige -- Chapter 8. The African AIDS Epidemic -- John C. Caldwell and Pat Caldwell -- C. MORTALITY INEqUALITIES -- Chapter 9. Why Women Live Longer than Men -- Thomas T Perls and Ruth C Fretts -- Chapter 10. The Epidemiologic Transition: From Material Scarcity to Social Disadvantage? -- Richard G. Wilkinson -- SECTION 4. FERTILITY -- A. BIOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF FERTILITY -- Chapter I I. Fertility, Biology, and Behaviour: An Analysis of the Proximate Determinants -- John Bongaarts and Robert G. Potter -- B. EXPLANATIONS OF FERTILITY CHANGE -- Chapter I2. The Theory of Change and Response in Modern Demographic History -- Kingsly, Davis -- Chapter 13. Towards a Restatement of Demographic Transition Theory -- John C Caldwell -- Chapter 14. Cultural Dynamics and Economic Theories of Fertility Change -- Ron Lesthaeghe andJohan Surkyn -- Chapter 15. Of Patriarchy Born: The Political Economy of Fertility Decisions -- Nancy Folbre -- C. FERTILITY PATTERNS IN INDUSTRIALIZED AND DEVELOPING NATIONS -- Chapter I6. Recent FertilityTrends in Industrialized Countries: Toward a Fluctuating -- or a Stable Pattern? -- Lincoln H. Day -- Chapter 17. The Fertility Decline in Developing Countries -- Bryant Robey, Shea 0. Rutstein, and Leo Morris -- SECTION 5. AGE-SEX COMPOSITION -- Chapter 18. How a Population Ages or Grows Younger -- Ansleyj Coale -- Chapter 19. Grey Dawn: The Global Aging Crisis -- Peter C. Peterson -- SECTION 6. MIGRATION AND URBANIZATION 2 -- A. INTERNAL MIGRATION AND URBANIZATION 2 -- Chapter 20. The Hypothesis of the MobilityTransition -- Wilbur Zelinsky -- Chapter 21. Global Urbanization: Towards the Twenty-First Century -- Terence G. McGee and C.J Griffiths -- B. INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION 2 -- Chapter 22. The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World -- Stephen Castles and Markj. Miller -- Chapter 23. Theories of International Migration: A Review and Appraisal -- Douglas S. Massey, Joaquin Arango, Graeme Hugo, Ali Kouaouci, Adela Pellegrino, andj Edward Taylo -- SECTION 7. POPULATION CHANGE AND POLICY RESPONSES -- Chapter 24. Can Liberal States Control Unwanted Migration? -- Gary P Freeman -- Chapter 25. The Unmet Need for Family Planning -- Maleoln Potts -- Credits.

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