A Concise History of World Population
Professor Massimo Livi-Bacci(Author)
Blackwell Publishers
3rd Edition
Published on 24. May 2001
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-631-22334-4 (ISBN)
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Description
Since its original publication in 1992, this book has become the standard history of world population. Its underlying purpose is to explain the links between nature, culture, and population and thereby to look at ways of preventing future environmental collapse and human catastrophe. Coverage of the changing patterns of population growth, and the effects of migrations, wars, disease, technology and culture, are addressed. For the third edition, the author has included new estimates and projections on world population to the year 2050, and updated the quantitative documentation and the bibliography. He has expanded the text on the geopolitical implications of demographic increase on different regions of the world and added sections on the effects of HIV on mortality and on sustainability of an extended life span. At the same time, the features that made previous editions attractive have been retained: the informative and accessible style, the reasoned treatment of issues crucial to the future of every species, and the contemporary recasting of theory.
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"This is one of the best recent texts on population changes: it deserves the widest readership." TEGNewsMore details
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
58
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
515 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-22334-4 (9780631223344)
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Massimo Livi Bacci
A Concise History of World Population
Book
11/2006
4th Edition
Wiley-Blackwell
€91.00
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Previous edition
Massimo Livi Bacci
A Concise History of World Population
Book
04/1997
2nd Edition
Blackwell Publishers
€53.37
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Person
Massimo Livi-Bacci is Professor of Demography at the University of Florence. From 1989 to 1993 he was President of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. He has published extensively on the history of population and on demography, and has taught or held research fellowships at universities all over the world, including the College de France, the Colegio de Mexico, Princeton University, University of California at Berkeley, and Brown University. In Italy he is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and of the Committee of Enquiry on poverty.
Content
List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. 1. The Space and Strategy of Demographic Growth. 2. Demographic Growth: Between Choice and Constraint. 3. Land, Labor, and Population. 4. Toward Order and Efficiency: The Recent Demography of Europe and the Developed World. 5. The Populations of Poor Countries. 6. The Future. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index.