Routledge Library Editions: Demography
Full House: Reassessing the Earth’s Population Carrying Capacity
1st Edition
By Lester Brown, Hal Kane
October 02, 2025
Originally published in 1995, after decades of steady growth, this book was written at a time when the world’s food supply was no longer keeping up with population increases. This book examines the causes of the imbalance in the food/population equation and suggests ways in which Malthusian checks ...
Population Growth In Latin America And U.S. National Security
1st Edition
Edited
By John Saunders
September 01, 2025
Originally published in 1986, this volume deals with both population growth in Latin America and the possible consequences of this growth for the security of the USA. The text analyses the demographic dimensions of the phenomenon and then considers the consequences for US security. It was the first...
Analysing Population Trends: Differential Fertility in a Pluralistic Society
1st Edition
By Lincoln H. Day
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1983, this book examines the problems of fertility in predicting population trends. It varies a great deal according to mothers’ ages, ethnic groups, place and time. It is important for demographers, planners and policy-makers to know precisely what fertility differences are...
Demographic Patterns in Developed Societies
1st Edition
Edited
By R. W. Hiorns
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1980, this volume reviews the demographic patterns of fertility, marriage and mortality with reference to developed societies in the 19th and 20th centuries in Western Europe and North America. New (at the time of publication) data and methodology are considered and ...
Every Fifth Child: The Population of China
1st Edition
By Leo A. Orleans
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1972, this book illustrates why China’s population problems are complex. It discusses at an introductory level 20th Century phenomena such as the decline in China’s death rate as a result of improved public health and medicine and the possible effects of density pressure on ...
Micro-Approaches to Demographic Research
1st Edition
Edited
By John Caldwell, Allan Hill, Valerie J. Hull
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1988, this collection of essays was the first attempt by population scientists to incorporate some of the methods and materials of anthropologists into their work. The essays bridge the gap in the conceptualisation and organisation of field research by 2 sets of social ...
People Who Count: Population and Politics, Women and Children
1st Edition
By Dorothy Stein
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1995, this book confronts the contentious political issues on all sides of the population debate, including immigration, demographic competition, gender ratios, reproductive research and children’s rights. The book argues that lower fertility rates are preferred by women ...
Planning for Population Change
1st Edition
Edited
By W. T. S. Gould, R. Lawton
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1986, this book explores many important aspects of the relationship between population change and planning, exploring the impact of population change on service provision and its impact on the policy-making process. In all countries, whether their population is expanding. ...
Population Since the Industrial Revolution: The Case of England and Wales
1st Edition
By Neil Tranter
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1973, this book is an introduction to the study of population history since the Industrial Revolution and focuses on the experience of England and Wales. It provides both a comprehensive survey of the vast array of specialist literature and a thorough explanation of the ...
Population Structures and Models: Developments in Spatial Demography
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Woods, Philip Rees
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1986, this volume brings together geographical modelling of population change and demographic analysis of population structures and pattern. These 2 strands are interwoven in 3 key review chapters that summarize the study of spatial and temporal patterns of population, the ...
Population and the Social Problem
1st Edition
By J. Swinburne
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1924 and inevitably a product of the time in which it was published, the author assumes that people exercise their powers of reproduction near to capacity. The book views this pressure on population as a social problem, the fundamental cause of human and social challenges. ...
Taking Population Seriously
1st Edition
By Frances Moore-Lappe, Rachel Schurman
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1988 and 1990, this book asks what positive lessons can be learned from some of the developing world’s success stories on population. Six developing world countries, as well as the Indian state of Kerala had achieved dramatic reductions in birth rates at the time the book ...