A Concise History of World Population.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- Chapter 1 The Space and Strategy of Demographic Growth -- 1.1 Humans and Animals -- 1.2 Divide and Multiply -- 1.3 Jacopo Bichi and Domenica Del Buono, Jean Guyon, and Mathurine Robin -- 1.4 Reproduction and Survival -- 1.4.1 The frequency of births -- 1.4.2 The fecund period used for reproduction -- 1.5 The Space of Growth -- 1.6 Environmental Constraints -- 1.7 A Few Figures -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Chapter 2 Demographic Growth: Between Choice and Constraint -- 2.1 Constraint, Choice, Adaptation -- 2.2 From Hunters to Farmers: The Neolithic Demographic Transition -- 2.3 Black Death and Demographic Decline in Europe -- 2.4 The Tragedy of the American Indios: Old Microbes and New Populations -- 2.5 Africa, America, and the Slave Trade -- 2.6 The French Canadians: A Demographic Success Story -- 2.7 Ireland and Japan: Two Islands, Two Histories -- 2.8 On the Threshold of the Contemporary World: China and Europe -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3 Land, Labor, and Population -- 3.1 Diminishing Returns and Demographic Growth -- 3.2 Historical Confirmations -- 3.3 Demographic Pressure and Economic Development -- 3.4 More on Demographic Pressure and Development: Examples from the Stone Age to the Present Day -- 3.5 Space, Land, and Development -- 3.5.1 The occupation of uninhabited or sparsely populated regions -- 3.5.2 Transformation and land reclamation -- 3.5.3 External expansion -- 3.6 Population Size and Prosperity -- 3.7 Increasing or Decreasing Returns? -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4 Toward Order and Efficiency: The Recent Demography of Europe and the Developed World -- 4.1 From Waste to Economy -- 4.2 From Disorder to Order: The Lengthening of Life -- 4.3 From High to Low Fertility -- 4.4 European Emigration: A Unique Phenomenon.

4.5 A Summing Up: The Results of the Transition -- 4.6 Theoretical Considerations on the Relationship between Demographic and Economic Growth -- 4.6.1 Purely demographic factors -- 4.6.2 Factors of Scale and Dimensional Factors in General -- 4.6.3 The Stock of Knowledge and Technological Progress -- 4.7 More on the Relationship between Demographic and Economic Growth: Empirical Observations -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5 The Populations of Poor Countries -- 5.1 An Extraordinary Phase -- 5.2 The Conditions of Survival -- 5.3 A Brief Geography of Fertility -- 5.4 The Conditions and Prospects for Fertility Decline and Demographic Policy -- 5.5 India and China -- 5.6 Fertilia and Sterilia -- 5.7 Explaining a Paradox -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Chapter 6 The Future -- 6.1 Population and Self‐Regulation -- 6.2 The Numbers of the Future -- 6.3 The North-South Divide and International Migration -- 6.3.1 Demographic Inequalities -- 6.3.2 Economic Inequalities -- 6.3.3 Migration Policies -- 6.3.4 Geography and Migratory Systems -- 6.3.5 Climate Change and Environment -- 6.4 On Sustainability of Extended Survival -- 6.4.1 Biological Sustainability -- 6.4.2 The AIDS Epidemic: Sustainable for the Rich, Unsustainable for the Poor -- 6.4.3 Political Sustainability -- 6.4.4 Economic Sustainability -- 6.5 The Moving Limits -- 6.6 Non-Renewable Resources and the Parable of Pauperia and Tycoonia -- 6.7 Food for All? -- 6.8 Space and Environment in a Smaller Planet -- 6.9 Calculations and Values -- Notes -- Major Scientific Journals for Further Reading -- Index -- EULA.

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