sciences-sociales_08/09/2009

JSTOR: nouveautés (septembre 2009)

European Journal of Population / Revue Européenne de Démographie (Arts & Sciences VI)
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1985) – Vol. 21, No. 4 (2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Springer
ISSN: 0168-6577

Population and Environment [1980- ] (Arts & Sciences VI)
Previous Title: Journal of Population [1978-1979] (0146-1052)
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1978) – Vol. 2, No. 4 (Winter, 1979);
Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring, 1980) – Vol. 27, No. 2 (November, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Springer
ISSN: 0199-0039

Social Indicators Research (Arts & Sciences VI)
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (May, 1974) – Vol. 74, No. 3 (December, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Springer
ISSN: 0303-8300

population_17/11/2008

State of the World Population 2008: Reaching common ground: culture, gender and human rights
(source: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA))

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“Development strategies that are sensitive to cultural values can reduce harmful practices against women and promote human rights, including gender equality and women’s empowerment, affirms The State of World Population 2008 report from UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. [...]“

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démographie_19122007

The anthropological demography of Europe
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Source: Demographic Research (via Docuticker)

This paper introduces a collection of related research studies on the anthropological demography of Europe. Anthropological demography is a specialty within demography that uses anthropological theory and methods to provide a better understanding of demographic phenomena in current and past populations. Its genesis and ongoing growth lies at the intersection of demography and socio-cultural anthropology and with their efforts to understand population processes: mainly fertility, migration, and mortality. Both disciplines share a common research subject, namely human populations, and they focus on mutually complementary aspects. The authors of this paper focus on the differences between the disciplines of anthropology and demography, the emergence of anthropological demography and its theoretical, methodological, and empirical aspects. In addition, they critically summarize the contributions that were presented in the first workshop of the Working Group on Anthropological Demography of Europe of the European Association for Population Studies, held in Rostock in Fall 2005 and reflect on how these papers add to the further development of anthropological demography in Europe, i.e. elaborating the epistemology of anthropological demography; applying additional theoretical perspectives to better understand demographic behaviour in Europe ; illustrating the way in which culture plays a role in case studies on European demographic behaviour; and emphasizing the need for a holistic approach to data collection and the added value of triangulating quantitative and qualitative analyses.

sociologie_03102007

La situation dans l’Union européenne 2005-2006
(Source: StatBel + Eurostat)

“Cette brochure succincte présente les principaux résultats du rapport sur la situation sociale 2005-2006. Contient une introduction, les tendances démographiques et sociétales, des données sur les revenus, santé et conditions de vie, des portraits statistiques et des indicateurs sociaux clés par entité géopolitique.”

démographie_06092007

DOLPHN : Data Online for Population, Health and Nutrition
Source: Infomine

Database of country health status indicators and demographic information. Several options for customized searches and charts.

démographie_02092007

The Geopolitics of World Population Change
Source: Center for Strategic & International Studies
Wednesday, July 11, the United Nations’ annual World Population Day, is a time to reflect on the past, present, and future state of the world’s population. Much attention will no doubt be given to the dangers associated with runaway population growth, from environmental degradation to unrelenting cycles of poverty. Amidst these worries, it is important to take note that the high tide of global population growth has peaked and begun to ebb. The real cause for concern is the sometimes gaping divergence in demographic trends between developed and developing nations, as well as between the United States and its traditional allies.
The stunning collapse in fertility rates across the world is the biggest – and perhaps least reported – demographic story of the past few decades.
The developed world, of course, is no stranger to falling fertility. With the exception of the postwar Baby Boom, birthrates have been in almost uninterrupted decline for more than a century. More recently, however, fertility has also declined throughout the developing world – and at an extremely rapid pace. Iran, a country that evokes images of religious conservatism and traditional family values, has undergone one of the fastest fertility declines on record. According to UN estimates, the average number of children born to each Iranian woman has fallen from 6.6 to 2.1 over the past 25 years. The decline is global in scale, spanning Latin America, parts of the Islamic Belt, and East and South Asia. Since 1970, fertility in Mexico has fallen from 6.5 to an estimated 2.4, in China from 4.9 to 1.7, and in India from 5.3 to 3.1.

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State of the World Population 2007
Source: United Nations Population Fund

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Statistics: Global Population Density: Estimates for 2015
Source: Columbia University and ReliefWeb

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The “Wedding-Ring” – An agent-based marriage model based on social interaction
Source: Demographic Research
In this paper we develop an agent-based marriage model based on social interaction. We build an population of interacting agents whose chances of marrying depend on the availability of partners, and whose willingness to marry depends on the share of relevant others in their social network who are already married. We then let the typical aggregate age pattern of marriage emerge from the bottom-up. The results of our simulation show that micro-level hypotheses founded on existing theory and evidence on social interaction can reproduce age-at-marriage patterns with both realistic shape and realistic micro-level dynamics.

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2007 Edition of the World Population Datasheet
Source: Population Reference Bureau (via RS)