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Harper Sarah |
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How population change will transform our world / / Sarah Harper |
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Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Population - Environmental aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 |
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? 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 ; |
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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 |
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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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UNINA9910136708403321 |
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Autore |
Glennon Paul |
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Bookweirder |
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New York : , : PRH Canada Young Readers, , 2010 |
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©2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (219 pages) |
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Collana |
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Books and reading |
Family secrets |
Fantasy fiction |
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Materiale a stampa |
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With its spirit of adventure, Bookweirder courts new readers and keeps |
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Malcolm and Norman's devoted fans captivated. Norman Jespers-Vilnius is stuck in the sleepy British countryside with his parents and ultra-irritating sister. Things couldn't be duller -- until Norman finds himself in the middle of the adventure story he discovered in the house's dusty library. Soon Norman is making strange new allies and stranger new enemies as struggles to rescue his best friend Malcolm the Prince of Stoats from another book gone wrong. Can Norman save Malcolm and steer the novel back on track? Can he hide his adventures in bookweird from his suspicious mother and the meddlesome Fuchs? Before we find out, we follow Norman on a chilling trip to 19th-century Paris, a fiery medieval adventure and, finally, a mission to discover the family secret at the heart of bookweird. |
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