Why Demography Matters
Demography is not destiny. As Giacomo Casanova explained over two centuries ago: 'There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our own lives.' Today we are shaping them and our societies more than ever before. Globally, we have never had fewer children per adult: our population is about to stabilize, though we do not know when or at what number, or what will happen after that. It will be the result of billions of very private decisions influenced in turn by multiple events and policies, some more unpredictable than others. More people are moving further around the world than ever before: we too often see that as frightening, rather t…
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Weitere Autoren: Gietel-Basten, Stuart
- ISBN: 978-0-7456-9844-1
- EAN: 9780745698441
- Produktnummer: 25192605
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'194 KB
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Danny Dorling is Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. His website can be found at www.dannydorling.org. Stuart Gietel-Basten is Associate Professor of Social Science at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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