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Overview
For more than 40 years, POPULATION has been introducing students to population issues, concepts and theories by encompassing the entire field of demography, including both principle and practice. From fertility and mortality rates to agricultural production and urbanization, Weeks (and now with friend and colleague López-Carr) consistently engages students through compelling writing and comprehensive explication. And with intriguing essays and online resources, this text gives students their best opportunity to truly master core demographic concepts.
- One of the most significant new features of the 13th edition is the contribution of Professor David López-Carr to the chapters dealing with the interactions of population change and environmental sustainability. His work on these critically important topics is world renowned.
- The 13th edition has been thoroughly updated and streamlined to tell the fascinating story of population even more effectively.
- Every chapter has been revised for readability, relevancy, recency and reliability.
- Each chapter contains a short essay on a particular population concept, designed to help students better understand current demographic issues. Each essay ends with two discussion questions to encourage students to think critically about the topic in greater depth.
- A list of 10 main points appears at the end of every chapter, following the summary, to help readers review chapter highlights -- and maximize their study time.
- A set of five review questions at the end of each chapter is designed to stimulate critical thinking and spark lively class discussion on important concepts.
- Key population terms appear in boldface type when introduced in the text to signal that they are included in the comprehensive glossary at the end of the book.
- The book includes both a subject index and a geographic index to help readers quickly and easily find the topics they are looking for.
- Accompanying online resources include PowerPoint slides that provide lecture notes for each chapter of the book; exam questions, including multiple-choice, true-false and essay questions; and an instructor's manual with a listing of additional online resources available for each chapter as well as suggestions for class exercises and term projects.
- A list of websites at the end of each chapter offers opportunities to further explore topics of interest.
- A glossary in the back of the book defines key population terms. These terms appear in boldface type when introduced in the text to signal that they also appear in the glossary.
PART I: A DEMOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE.
1. Introduction to Demography.
2. Demographic Data and Applied Demography.
3. Demographic Perspectives.
PART II: POPULATION PROCESSES.
4. The Health and Mortality Transition.
5. The Fertility Transition.
6. The Migration Transition.
7. The Urbanization Transition.
PART III: USING THE DEMOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE.
8. The Age Transition and the Life Course.
9. Family Demography, Race/Ethnicity, and Life Chances.
10. Population, the Environment, and Global Sustainability.
1. Introduction to Demography.
2. Demographic Data and Applied Demography.
3. Demographic Perspectives.
PART II: POPULATION PROCESSES.
4. The Health and Mortality Transition.
5. The Fertility Transition.
6. The Migration Transition.
7. The Urbanization Transition.
PART III: USING THE DEMOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE.
8. The Age Transition and the Life Course.
9. Family Demography, Race/Ethnicity, and Life Chances.
10. Population, the Environment, and Global Sustainability.