Demography: The Science of Population

by Zhongwei Zhao (Editor), Adrian C. Hayes (Editor)
Home to close to 60 per cent of the world’s population, Asia is the largest and by far the most populous continent. It is also extremely diverse, physically and culturally

Editors: Swanson, David A. (Ed.)
Examines cutting-edge methods and findings that will help shape the future of applied demography
Shows readers how best to use new and existing data to meet new applications
Offers an international perspective with case studies from Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Mexico, the United States

The development of a quantitative nonlinear theory of the world population is of interest for interdisciplinary research in anthropology and demography, history and sociology, for population genetics and epidemiology, for studies in evolution of humankind and the origin of man. The model also provides insight into the stability of growth and the present predicament of humankind, and provides a setting for discussing the main global problems.

The book that follows is an experiment in the teaching of population theory and analysis. A sequence of problems where each is a self-contained puzzle, and the successful solution of each which puts the student in a position to tackle the next, is a means of securing the active participation of the learner and so the mastery of a technical subject. How far our questions are the exciting puzzles at which we aimed, and how far the sequence constitutes a rounded course in demography, must be left to the user to judge.