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How Population Change Will Transform Our World. (Record no. 118097)

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International Standard Book Number 9780191086687
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Canceled/invalid ISBN 9780198784098
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System control number (MiAaPQ)EBC4706163
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System control number (Au-PeEL)EBL4706163
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System control number (CaPaEBR)ebr11274437
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System control number (OCoLC)953456291
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050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number HB849.415.H377 2016
082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 304.62
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Harper, Sarah.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title How Population Change Will Transform Our World.
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Edition statement 1st ed.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Oxford :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Oxford University Press, Incorporated,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2016.
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Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice ©2016.
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Extent 1 online resource (257 pages)
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Media type term computer
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Formatted contents note Cover -- HOW POPULATION CHANGE WILL TRANSFORM OUR WORLD, SARAH HARPER -- Copyright -- Dedication -- FOREWORD -- What Is Myth and What Is Science? -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- CHAPTER ONE: The Age Narrative -- The changing age composition of the world -- The demographic drivers of change -- Three lives . . . -- The stories of three women born in 1975 -- SAMIRA, NIGER -- VARYA, MALAYSIA -- LISA, ITALY -- . . . in three regions -- The impact of age-structural change -- Advanced economies -- Emerging economies -- Least developed economies -- Economic and societal consequences -- Inequalities -- The challenge -- CHAPTER TWO: How Did We Get Here? -- The drivers of change -- Sanitation and clean water -- The role of nutrition -- The introduction of pharmaceuticals -- The rise of chronic diseases -- Mortality in Emerging and Least Developed Economies -- Childbearing -- Declining European fertility . . . -- . . . goes global -- Future Challenges -- Very low fertility -- Continued high fertility -- High morbidity and mortality -- Extreme longevity -- Age-structural challenges -- CHAPTER THREE: The Grey Burden -- Production into consumption -- Elderly dependency -- Let's question the assumptions -- Institutional frameworks -- Producing, consuming, and paying taxes -- The second demographic dividend -- The challenge of increasing longevity -- Longer, healthy lives or just longer lives? -- CHAPTER FOUR: Youth: Peril or Dividend? -- MENA countries -- Unemployment -- Arab Spring or Asian Tiger? -- Youth bulge into demographic dividend -- First there was China, now there is India -- What has happened elsewhere? -- South Korea -- The Tiger Cubs: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand -- Thailand -- Vietnam -- Latin America -- The role of demographic change -- CHAPTER FIVE: Too Many Children?.
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Formatted contents note A continent of child dependents -- Slow fertility transition and fertility stalling -- Children and adolescents: vulnerability -- Adolescents -- Potential for growth held back by dependents -- The role of education and developing human capital -- CHAPTER SIX: Our Future Selves -- Summary -- Addressing the trends through population policy -- The modification of fertility trends -- Pro-natalist policies -- Policies to reduce fertility -- Migration -- Importance of human capital -- A confluence of twenty-first century challenges -- The role of climate change -- The impact of technological change -- Integrating demography into understanding -- Twentieth-century institutions, twenty-first century challenges -- AFTERWORD -- I would like many cows -- I want to become a computer scientist -- I want to be a fashion designer -- APPENDICES -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Afterword -- INDEX.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. In How Population Will Transform Our World, Sarah Harper looks at fertility rates and age structures of populations in different regions of the world against the backdrop of urbanization and climate change, drawing out the profound implications and challenges for societies, economies, and the environment in the decades to come.
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590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN)
Local note Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Population--Environmental aspects.
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Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
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Relationship information Print version:
Main entry heading Harper, Sarah
Title How Population Change Will Transform Our World
Place, publisher, and date of publication Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2016
International Standard Book Number 9780198784098
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