Routledge Library Editions: Demography
The Growth and Distribution of Population
1st Edition
By S. Vere Pearson
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1935, this book examines the causes of global rural depopulation, slum housing conditions and city over-crowding. The falling birth-rate in the West, town planning, ribbon development, emigration and traffic problems are also discussed with particular focus on how they ...
West European Population Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Allan Findlay, Paul White
August 01, 2025
The 1970s was a decade of significant population change in Western Europe. Originally published in 1986, this book reviews the major trends: fertility decline, counter-urbanisation and the cessation of international labour migration from outside the former EEC. It was the first volume to compare ...
Essays on African Population
1st Edition
Edited
By K. M. Barbour, R.M. Prothero
July 01, 2025
Originally published in 1961, this book comprises of 14 studies by scholars and officials with first-hand experience of Africa and deals with the nature and organization of population censuses and with the many uses to which their results may be put. Written at a time of political transition on the...
Population Growth and Levels of Consumption: With Special Reference to Countries in Asia
1st Edition
By Belshaw Horace
July 01, 2025
Originally published in 1956, this book considers the practical problems of economic development in countries in which the prevailing outlook and a recent or probable increase in population growth make it difficult to escape from a ‘Malthusian situation.’ This book develops a valuable analytical ...
Routledge Library Editions: Demography
1st Edition
By Various Authors
October 02, 2023
Demographic history is now recognised as one of the most important components of social and economic history. Although the empirical contexts of some of these volumes published between 1924 and 1995, (particularly those focussed on modelling and planning for population change) can at first seem ...