Overview
- Provides a comprehensive study of the population dynamics in the Western Balkans
- Discusses theoretical and applied material for aspects of demography
- Contains methodological approaches to concepts in demography and society
Part of the book series: European Studies of Population (ESPO, volume 26)
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About this book
This book is a collection of scientific studies regarding the biological, economic, historical, health, social, and other aspects of the populations of the western Balkans, a geographic area with distinct as well as diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, political systems, ethnic characteristics, development, and history. Through providing data analyses, statistical methodologies, and important applications, the book addresses and explores topics such as temporary migration and human resource availability, depopulation, and the immigration future, returning migrants, poverty, population dynamics and birth rate trends, reproduction and family creation, aging, mortality and health developments, and much more. As such, this book is of great importance in understanding the mechanisms of population change and dynamics in an European area and provides a valuable guide for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners from various disciplines.
Keywords
- Demography of the Western Balkans
- Migration and human resource availability
- Urbanization in the Western Balkans
- Population studies
- Population health in the Western Balkans
- Fertility in the Western Balkans
- Population dynamics in the Western Balkans
- Marriage formation in the Western Balkans
- Depopulation and immigration in the Western Balkans
- Mortality and population ageing in the Western Balkans
- Brain drain and migration policies
- Migration dynamics and poverty in the Western Balkans
Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Konstantinos N. Zafeiris is an associate professor of Demography in the Department of History and Ethnology, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. He received his doctorate in demography after studying the demographic and biological profile of isolated populations. His research focuses on mortality, health, population modeling, fertility, and palaeodemography. He has also studied the demographic and genealogical structure of isolated populations in Greece from the point of view of anthropological demography.
Byron Kotzamanis is Demographer and Docteur es Lettres et Sciences Humaines at the University Paris X, France. He is Author, Co-author, and Editor of many books on demographic/population developments in Greece and the Balkans. He has also authored several papers in collective volumes examining issues of demographic policy, population projections, migration, mortality, family/fertility, as well as the spatial dimensions of demographic phenomena in Greece and the Balkans.
Christos H. Skiadas, Ph.D., was Founder and Director of the Data Analysis and Forecasting Laboratory at the Technical University of Crete, Greece, and served as Vice-Rector of the University. He is Chair of the Demographics Workshop series, the Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis Conference series and the Chaotic Modeling and Simulation Conference series. He has published more than 80 papers, three monographs, and 26 books, including probability, statistics, data analysis, and forecasting. His research interests include innovation diffusion modeling and forecasting, life table data modeling, healthy life expectancy estimates, and deterministic, stochastic, and chaotic modeling.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Population Studies in the Western Balkans
Editors: Konstantinos N. Zafeiris, Byron Kotzamanis, Christos Skiadas
Series Title: European Studies of Population
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53088-3
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 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53087-6Published: 17 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53090-6Due: 17 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-53088-3Published: 16 March 2024
Series ISSN: 1381-3579
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8977
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 400
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations, 87 illustrations in colour
Topics: Demography, Life course, Migration