Navigating Time and Space in Population Studies

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Merchant, Emily R. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Deane, Glenn D. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Gutmann, Myron P. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Sylvester, Kenneth M. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Σειρά: International Studies in Population ; 9
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Population.; Demography.; Social Sciences.; Population Economics.

This book presents innovative approaches to long-standing questions about the diffusion of population and demographic behavior across space and over time, adding a spatial dimension to temporal analysis and a temporal element to spatial analysis. The studies collected here utilize newly-available hi...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: An Innovative Methodology for Space-Time Analysis with an Application to the 1960-2000 Brazilian Mortality Transition: Carl P. Schmertmann, Joseph E. Potter, and Renato M. Assunção
• Chapter 2: Spatial Aspects of the American Fertility Transition in the Nineteenth Century: Michael R. Haines and J. David Hacker
• Chapter 3: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Fertility Transition in Muslim Populations: Hani A. Guend
• Chapter 4: Spatial and Temporal Analyses of Surname Distributions to Estimate Mobility and Changes in Historical Demography: The Example of Savoy (France) from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century: Pierre Darlu, Guy Brunet, and Dominique Barbero
• Chapter 5: Widening Horizons? The Geography of the Marriage Market in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth Century Netherlands: Peter Ekamper, Frans van Poppel, and Kees Mandemakers
• Chapter 6: Finding Frontiers in the U.S. Great Plains from the End of the Civil War to the Eve of the Great Depression: Myron P. Gutmann, Glenn D. Deane, and Kristine Witkowski
• Chapter 7: Commonalities and Contrasts in the Development of Major United States Urban Areas: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis from 1910 to 2000: Andrew A. Beveridge
• Chapter 8: Economic Transition and Social Inequality in Early Twentieth Century Puerto Rico: Katherine J. Curtis
• Index.