All ebooks in the collection "Understanding Population Trends and Processes" - Springer

Rural Aging in 21st Century America

E. Helen Berry , Nina Glasgow

This book investigates sociological, demographic and geographic aspects of aging in rural and nonmetropolitan areas of the United States. Population aging is one of the most important trends of the 20th and 21st centuries, and it is occurring worldwide, especially in...

Spatial Microsimulation: A Reference Guide for Users

Kimberley Edwards , Robert Tanton

This book is a practical guide on how to design, create and validate a spatial microsimulation model. These models are becoming more popular as academics and policy makers recognise the value of place in research and policy making. Recent spatial microsimulation models...

Understanding Family Change and Variation

Christine A. Bachrach , Jennifer A. Johnson-Hanks , Hans-Peter Kohler , S. Philip Morgan

Fertility rates vary considerably across and within societies, and over time. Over the last three decades, social demographers have made remarkable progress in documenting these axes of variation, but theoretical models to explain family change and variation have lagged...

Population Dynamics and Projection Methods

Martin Clarke , John Stillwell

Although the human population growth rate of the world has been  declining since peaking in the early 1960s, the populations of individual countries are changing at different rates.  Population dynamics at national level are partly determined by levels of fertility and...

Ethnicity and Integration

John Stillwell , Maarten Van Ham

Spatial and Social Disparities

Paul Norman , John Stillwell , Paula Surridge , Claudia Thomas

Inequality is one of the major problems of the contemporary world. Significant geographical disparities exist within nations of the developed world, as well as between these countries and those referred to as the ‘South’ in the Bruntland Report. Issues of equity and...

Fertility, Living Arrangements, Care and Mobility

Ernestina Coast , Dylan Kneale , John Stillwell

Many parts of the world are experiencing rapid demographic restructuring, resulting in an ageing population with increasingly significant work and care pressures on cohorts less able or willing to provide support. This book examines some of the important trends that...