The initial plans for this book sprang from a late-afternoon conversation in a hotel bar. All
three authors were attending the 1996 meeting of the Population As-ciation of America in …

Over the past 15 years, OECD countries have come to recognise that their elderly
populations are already, or will be, the fastest growing segments of their populations in the …

A major contribution to the field of crime/deviance, this volume by noted criminologist
Charles R. Tittle puts forth an integrated theory of deviance—control balance. Its central …

Die Darstellung erhebt nicht den Anspruch, einen Überblick über das Gesamtgebiet der
Bevölkerungsgeographie zu geben. Dazu sei auf die einschlägigen Lehrbücher verwiesen …

This book takes into account the dramatic changes associated with the collapse of the Soviet
Union, the end of the Cold War, and significant developments in the semi-periphery and …

Parents are often warned of the negative impact of moving on children, but there has been
little research on how the influence of moving may vary by family structure. The study …

The author examines the case for the cohort approach to fertility. In view of the virtually
unanimous verdict of statistical investigations that period is far more important than cohort in …

Introduction The increase in female labor force participation prompted a great deal of
research on the ways in which work demands impact family life. In general these studies …

An Introduction to Population Geographies provides a foundation to the incredibly diverse,
topical and interesting field of twenty-first-century population geography. It establishes the …

BACKGROUND Demography is an inherently spatial science, yet the application of spatial
data and methods to demographic research has tended to lag that of other disciplines. In …