he Peopling of Hawaii by Eleanor C. Nordyke offers a comprehensive historical and demographic overview of how Hawaii’s population was formed across centuries. The book traces the arrival of the earliest Polynesian settlers, followed by successive waves of immigrants from Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Nordyke explains the cultural, economic, and political forces that shaped migration pattern…
Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at two of the biggest challenges we face today: the global environmental crisis and America's surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11. It is a groundbreaking account of where we stand now, and shows us how the solutions to these two big problems are linked- how we can restore the world and revive America at the same time.
Indonesia's rapid industrialization Ied to the growth of vast urban areas, especially on overcrowded java. Transmigrasi or transmigration is indonesia's voluntary program for restoring a more even distribution of population to the country and is an important element in the nation's development as a modern economy.
Human history has always been shaped by the growth and migration of populations, by the opportunities and constraints provided by the environment, and by the rise of new technologies. Today, these forces are enmeshed in a state of unprecedented turbulence. World population has more than doubled in the past forty years to reach its current level of 5.5 billion, and it will exceed 8 billion and p…
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…
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,…
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), …
This book is a historical-demographic study of the indigenous population of the Indonesian archipelago during the period 1880-1942, focusing on geo- graphical diversity. In undertaking such a study, one is faced with a difficult task. On the one hand, much of the statistical data that should form the framework for a demographic study is missing; on the other, it is difficult to interpret the re…