Overview

Predicting the shape of our future populations is vital for installing the infrastructure, welfare, and provisions necessary for society to survive. There are many opportunities and challenges that will come with the changes in our populations over the 21st century. In this new addition to the 21st Century Challenges series, Sarah Harper works to dispel myths such as the fear of unstoppable global growth resulting in a population explosion, or that climate change will lead to the mass movement of environmental refugees; and instead considers the future shape of our populations in light of demographic trends in fertility, mortality, and migration, and their national and global impact.How Population Change Will Transform Our World looks at population trends by region to highlight the key issues facing us in the coming decades, including the demographic inertia in Europe, demographic dividend in Asia, high fertility and mortality in Africa, the youth bulge in the Middle East, and the balancing act of migration in the Americas. Harper concludes with an analysis of global challenges we must plan for such as the impact of climate change and urbanization, and the difficulty of feeding 10 billion people, and considers ways in which we can prepare for, and mitigate against, these challenges.

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Author:   Sarah Harper (Professor of Gerontology, Oxford University and Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 19.70cm
Weight:   0.256kg
ISBN:  

9780198783992

ISBN 10:   019878399
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   28 February 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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... this paperback dates little from the hardback three years ago: the issues are still germane and the ground Harper covers still hugely relevant. * Jonathan Cowie, Concatenation *

Sarah Harper provides a fascinating graphically illustrated and well researched summary of current demographic trends * Jonathan Cowie, Concatenation * A reliable and intelligent guide * Robert Mayhew, Literary Review *

Author Information

Sarah Harper is Professor of Gerontology at Oxford University, Director of the Oxford Institute of Ageing, a multi-disciplinary research unit concerned with the implications of population ageing, and Director of the Clore Programme on Population-Environment Change. Her research concerns globalization and global ageing, and the impact of population change, in particular the implications at the global, societal and individual level of the age-structural shift from predominantly young to predominantly older societies. She has authored, edited and contributed to several books, including Families in Ageing Societies (Editor, OUP, 2004), Ageing Societies: Myths, Challenges, and Opportunities(Hodder Arnold, 2005) and Demography: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2018). She is also the editor of the Journal of Population Ageing (Springer).

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