Demography Books

New and Published Books

1. Productive Engagement in Later Life

   A Global Perspective

   Edited by Nancy Morrow-Howell, Ada Mui

   Productive Ageing is the involvement of older adults in society through employment, volunteering, caregiving, education and skill building. In 2020 there will be 248 million people in China aged 60 and over. At the same time, the birth rate continues to drop and family structures are being...

   Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore

   Making Future Citizens

   By Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

   This book examines the relationship between population policies and individual reproductive decisions in low-fertility contexts. Using the case study of Singapore, it demonstrates that the effectiveness of population policy is a function of competing notions of citizenship, and the gap between...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
3. Cohabitation, Family & Society

   By Tiziana Nazio

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This book deals with the process of the diffusion of cohabitation in Europe and discusses its impact upon fundamental changes in family formation. It makes use of highly dynamic statistical modelling that takes into account both changes occurring along the life course (individuals’ biographies) and...

   Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge
4. Changing Marriage Patterns in Southeast Asia

   Economic and Socio-Cultural Dimensions

   Edited by Gavin W. Jones, Terence H. Hull, Maznah Mohamad

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

   Various forms of partnering – such as officially registered marriages, cohabiting relationships, and other kinds of relatively stable relationships - are crucial in the formation of families throughout the world. Although, today, forms of partnering in the region are not restricted to formal...

   Published September 11th 2011 by Routledge
5. Ageing in East Asia

   Challenges and Policies for the Twenty-First Century

   Edited by Tsung-hsi Fu, Rhidian Hughes

   Series: Comparative Development and Policy in Asia

   Ageing populations present considerable challenges to welfare states internationally, and East Asia is no exception. Demographics show that countries in East Asia either have the highest proportion of older people, or the speed at which their population is ageing is faster than anywhere else in the...

   Published March 15th 2011 by Routledge
6. Multiculturalism

   Edited by Gerd Baumann, Steven Vertovec

   Series: Critical Concepts in Sociology

   Edited by two leading scholars in the field, this new title in Routledge’s Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Sociology, is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research. Serious work on multiculturalism flourishes as never before, and this ‘mini library’ meets the need for...

   Published November 30th 2010 by Routledge
7. Population, Health and Nutrition in the Sahel

   Issues in the Welfare of Selected West African Communities

   Edited by Allan G. Hill

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   This collection of studies, first published in 1985, describes some contemporary problems of selected pastoral and agro-pastoral communities of the West African Sahel. Several important features of the Sahel are illustrated: the significance of seasonal factors in causing periodic stress amongst...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
8. Womens' Roles and Population Trends in the Third World

   Edited by Richard Anker, Marya Buvinic, Nadia H. Youssef

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   First published in 1982, this collection was the result of an ambitious and wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary research programme conducted by the International Labour Office (ILO) on the relationship between women’s roles and demographic change, with a view to influencing contemporary government and...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
9. Population and Development

   High and Low Fertility in Poorer Countries

   Edited by Geoffrey Hawthorn

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   First published in 1978, this book explores the vital global issue of high and low fertility in poorer countries through a series of case studies by contemporary experts in the fields of development and demography. These studies examine such issues as: the relations between fertility rates and...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
10. The Politics of Family Planning in the Third World

    Edited by T. E. Smith

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

    First published in 1973, this book is an attempt to examine the political determinants (as opposed to the more usual emphasis upon consequences) of contemporary population policy formation and action in developing countries, with particular reference to policy relating to family limitation....

    Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge