Routledge Handbook of Asian Demography (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Zhao, Zhongwei; Hayes, Adrian C.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This handbook provides a comprehensive study of population changes in Asia and related theoretical issues through examining demographic transitions in the region and their relationship toa wide range of social, economic, political and cultural factors. It is a key reference source for students and schaolrs interested in population change in Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 580
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351373456
• Artikelnr.: 50533412

Autorenporträt

Zhongwei Zhao is a graduate of Peking University and the University of Cambridge. He now works at the Australian National University (ANU). His research interests are broad and he has published widely on historical demography, computer microsimulation, family and kinship, mortality, fertility, famine and environmental impacts on population health. Adrian C. Hayes was educated in the UK and the US and has combined an active academic career with extensive development experience in Asia. He has taught at major universities in the United States, Canada, China and Nepal, and has worked with the United Nations, the World Bank and other bilateral and international agencies. He is currently based at the ANU.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction - Zhongwei Zhao and Adrian C. Hayes
Chapter 2: Asia's major demographic data sources - Daniel Goodkind
Chapter 3: The development of population research institutions in Asia -
Peter McDonald
Chapter 4: Asian historical demography - Cameron Campbell and Satomi Kurosu
Chapter 5: Fertility decline - Stuart Gietel-Basten
Chapter 6: Family planning policies and programmes - Adrian C. Hayes
Chapter 7: Family planning, contraceptive use and abortion - Yan Che and
Baochang Gu
Chapter 8: Reproductive health and maternal mortality - Terence H. Hull and
Meimanat Hosseini-Chavoshi
Chapter 9: Son preference, sex ratios and 'missing girls' in Asia - Monica
Das Gupta, Doo-Sub Kim, Shuzhuo Li and Rohini Prabha Pande
Chapter 10: Child mortality - Danzhen You, Lucia Hug and Kenneth Hill
Chapter 11: Changes in old-age mortality since 1950 - Danan Gu, Patrick
Gerland, Kirill Andreev, Nan Li, Thomas Spoorenberg, Gerhard Heilig and
Francois Pelletier
Chapter 12: Age patterns and sex differentials in mortality - Yan Yu and
Zhongwei Zhao
Chapter 13: Trends in causes of death and burden of diseases - Colin D.
Mathers
Chapter 14: HIV/AIDS in Asia - Binod Nepal
Chapter 15: Population distribution - Christophe Z. Guilmoto and Sébastien
Oliveau
Chapter 16: The urbanization of low- and middle-income Asia - Mark R.
Montgomery and Deborah Balk
Chapter 17: Asia's international migration - Graeme Hugo
Chapter 18: Forced and refugee migration in Asia - Mohammad Jalal
Abbasi-Shavazi and Ellen Percy Kraly
Chapter 19: Changing marriage patterns in Asia - Gavin W. Jones
Chapter 20: Family and household composition in Asia - Albert Esteve and
Chia Liu
Chapter 21: Asia's demographic transition: variations and major
determinants - Minja Kim Choe
Chapter 22: Human capital formation in Asia 1970-2010 - Samir KC and
Wolfgang Lutz
Chapter 23: The process of population ageing and its challenges - Heather
Booth
Chapter 24: Demographic dividends - Tomoko Kinugasa
Chapter 25: Population and environment in Asia - Adrian C. Hayes
Chapter 26: Population, the state and security in Asia - Geoffrey McNicoll
Chapter 27: The demographic future of Asia - Wolfgang Lutz and Samir KC
Chapter 28: Conclusion - Zhongwei Zhao and Adrian C. Hayes