This book examines the consequences of projected population decline and population aging as well as policy responses to address demographic change.
Becoming British Columbia is the first comprehensive, demographic history of British Columbia. Investigating critical moments in the demographic record and linking demographic patterns to larger social and political questions, it shows how biology, politics, and history conspired with sex, death, and migration to create a particular kind of society. John Belshaw overturns the widespread ten…
September 11 provided a vision and a strategy to a US Presidency that until then had been groping for fresh ideas and a relevant foreign policy. The 'global war on terror' now became an article of faith for the United States. The US Government, media and think-tanks turned their attention to Islam, the Arab world and Saudi Arabia, and held them responsible for the catastrophe unleashed upon the…
In essence a manual for reconstructing the demographic past of Central Africa, this is the first concerted attempt to recover the pre-1960 demography of an African region on the basis of colonial statistics. The authors begin by exploring the unexpected strengths, as well as the shortcomings, of extant records. They proceed to discuss how various social science disciplines can contribute to our…
This work is a major contribution to the understandingof the demography of Malaysia--a country abundant in land and natural resources, but with a long history of a shortage of people and human resources. The book looks at changes and differentials in fertility behavior, the causes, and the consequences. It outlines the modern history of changes in Malaysia's population and the economic, social,…
Tibetans form the major part of the population of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Of all Tibetans throughout China, around half live in Tibet while the rest mainly scatter in Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces.
The book provides not only an up-to-date overview of Indonesia's political and economic situation, but also the most comprehensive treatment of population and human resources in the world's fourth most populous country. As well as assessing recent trends in fertility, mortality, migration, urbanization, education and health, incorporating early results from the 1995 Intercensal Survey (SUPAS), …
Apa yang menyebabkan Bumi menderita, dan bagaima kita dapat memperbaikinya? Orang-orang yang mencemaskan udara dan air, para konsumen yang berharap dapat membuat pilihan-pilihan yang bertanggung jawab di pasar swalayan dan di bilik tempat memberikan suara, para mahasiswa ekonomi bisnis global, yang ingin menghentikan polusi, para aktivis berkemauan keras menentang penghancuran hutan, para pembu…
Como parte importante de la Biblioteca de la Paz incluimos esta compilación editada y titulada en dos tomos con el nombre de El derecho Internacional Humanitario en Colombia; el primero incluye documentos referidos a la adhesión del país a los Convenios de Ginebra y a sus dos protocolos adicionales, y el segundo agrupa materiales referidos a la interpretación, la problemática y la aplicaci…
Este segundo tomo de la obra Derecho Internacional Humanitario en Colombia, Problemática y Aplicación, nos permite entregar una compilación de documentos cuidadosamente seleccionados para dar cuenta de interpretaciones teóricas, doctrinarias, de análisis político y jurídico, y varios informes, para conseguir un cuadro en lo posible completo sobre lo que ha sido la problemática y el desa…