Demography and the Making of the Modern WorldPublic Policies and Demographic Forces
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About this book
John Rennie Short critically explores the implications of demographic change from a social and economic perspective and considers what this means for public policy. He shows how events as varied and important as the Arab Spring, migration from Africa to Europe, budget negotiations in the United States, and economic growth in India and Brazil – all seemingly diverse issues from around the world – are shaped by forces of demography.
Using the demographic transition model as a framework, the book examines the demographic forces that underlie major social and economic issues, and in particular, the range of public policies that have been developed, adopted and rejected to meet these population challenges. The book outlines the varied impacts of these demographic changes on society at different times and draws on a wide range of contemporary case studies from the Global North and South.
The book offers students of geography and the social sciences a clear and authoritative introduction to the role population change plays in public policy.
Reviews
For anyone who has an interest in the global population and how we arrived at our current population structure, this concise history of the global population is a must. The book is well written, free of jargon, and easy to understand. It provides an insightful introduction to the complex relationship between demography and public policy.
A short, accessible and balanced book [...] The book is engagingly written. Refreshingly, it has no driving agenda beyond demonstrating the importance of population trends, and how they can be influenced, mitigated, and exploited through the power of our collective actions. It fulfils its remit of offering social science students and policymakers a clear introduction to key intersections between population change and public policy.
Table of contents
1. The demographic transition model
2. Before the transition
3. The transition
4. The growing population
5. The bulging population
6. The shrinking population
7. The ageing population
8. Demographic narratives and moral panics
9. Demography and contemporary challenges