Overview
- Addresses many critical population issues in the world
- Presents short chapters with clearly presented information and policy messages
- Written in an accessible way for everyone who wants to know more about population issues
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About this book
This book is a broad collection of short and concise chapters addressing important issues relating to population levels, trends, and differentials. In addition to traditional population concerns, such as growth, composition, fertility, mortality, and migration, the articles address a broad range of related issues, including climate change, environmental degradation, socio-economic development, and policy development. The articles are concise, focused on specific issues, and presented in a style that avoids technical jargon and is easily understood by a broad range of readers. The articles are not only aimed at conveying population information, but also providing important messages for informed policy formulation and program implementation. Among the many issues addressed are human rights, laws, women, gender, climate change, COVID-19 pandemic, ageing, retirement, and abortion. Written in an accessible way, the book will appeal to many general readers wishing to know more about population issues.
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Keywords
- Population and development
- Demographic growth and climate change
- Refugees and asylum seekers
- Population migration and immigration
- Illegal immigration dilemma
- Population aging and raising retirement ages
- Unhealthy lifestyles and life expectancy
- Population studies and the COVID pandemic
- Population fertility
- Population mortality
- Population Policy
- Population growth
Table of contents (80 chapters)
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Development
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Front Matter
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Fertility
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Joseph Chamie is an international demographer. He is a former director of the United Nations Population Division at UN Headquarters and later a former research director at the Center for Migration Studies in New York City.
Dr. Chamie received his doctoral degree in sociology, majoring in the field of population, from the University of Michigan. He has worked in various regions of the world, specializing primarily in Asia, Africa and the Middle East and has worked in national programs dealing with health issues.
He has first-hand experience with the diverse problems of less developed countries as well as the more developed nations. He has lived for several years in a rural Indian village working in health and also resided in areas of civil conflict, having spent six years with the United Nations in Beirut, Lebanon. He has conducted research and taught at universities in the United States and abroad.He was with the United Nations in the field of population and developmentboth overseas and in New York City for more than a quarter century. Among other major duties, he was the deputy secretary-general for the 1994 United Nations International Conference for Population and Development.
In addition to completing numerous studies and reports issued under United Nations authorship, he has also written many studies in his own name in such areas as fertility, marriage, population estimates and projections, ageing, urbanization, mortality, gender, international migration, irregular migration and population and development policy.
He has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Population Association of America, the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population and a trustee of the Migration Policy Institute. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Population Levels, Trends, and Differentials
Book Subtitle: More Important Population Matters
Authors: Joseph Chamie
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22479-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22478-2Published: 02 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22481-2Published: 03 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-22479-9Published: 01 January 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 367
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Demography, Social Sciences, general