Population and development [electronic resource] / Tim Dyson.
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TextPublication details: London ; New York : Zed : Economic & Social Research Council ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 268 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781848139121
- 1848139128
- 128290339X
- 9781282903395
- 304.6 22
- HB849.41 .D97 2010eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
About the author; Figures and tables; Figures; Tables; Preface; Glossary; PART ONE: Introduction; 1 -- Introduction; 2 -- The demographic transition -- origins, processes, effects; 3 -- World population and the transition; PART TWO: The processes of the demographic transition; 4 -- The demographic transition -- facts and theory; 5 -- Urbanization and the transition; PART THREE: The effects of the demographic transition; 6 -- Social effects of the transition; 7 -- Economic and political effects; PART FOUR: Conclusion; 8 -- Conclusions, discussion, the future; Appendix: remarks on data and approach.
Population and Development offers an expert guide on the demographic transition, from its origins in Enlightenment Europe through to the rest of the world. Tim Dyson examines how, while the phenomenon continues to cause unsustainable population growth with serious economic and environmental implications, its processes have underlain previous periods of sustained economic growth, helped to liberate women from the domestic domain, and contributed greatly to the rise of modern democracy.
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