Population, Resources and Development Riding the Age Waves /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Tuljapurkar, Shripad (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Pool, Ian (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Prachuabmoh, Vipan (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Σειρά: International Studies in Population ; 1
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Aging.; Sociology.; Demography.; Social Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.

In the 21st century, the populations of the world’s nations will display large and long-lived changes in age structure. Many of these began with fertility change and are amplified by declining mortality and by migration within and between nations. Demography will matter in this century not by force...

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