The No1 Ethical retailer for Books, CD’s, DVD’s & Games
30 Day Refund Guarantee

Sustainability Project Subscription: Overcrowded World?: Global Population and International Migration: Population Explosion and International MIgration

Sustainability Project Subscription: Overcrowded World?: Global Population and International Migration: Population Explosion and International MIgration

by RainerMünz (Author), Albert Reiterer (Author), JuliaSchweizer (Translator)

  • Used

    Paperback 2009

    $3.31
Synopsis

Today our planet is home to 6.8 billion people. By the year 2050, the global population will have grown to 9 billion. Yet the problems that will come with this massive expansion are not universal. Many developing nations will experience high demographic growth, while industrialized countries will have to deal with aging and eventually shrinking populations, as well as with more immigration. "Overcrowded World: Global Population and International Migration" offers a perspective on the causes and effects of rapid population change, and asks two vital questions: how can Earth sustain this growth and what can we do to improve the living conditions of present and future generations.

$3.31

Save:$9.45 (74%)

Quantity

1 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 270
 Publisher: Haus Publishing
Published: 13 Apr 2009
ISBN 10: 190659810X
ISBN 13: 9781906598105

Media Reviews
Munz and Reiterer are German social scientists, and their compact new review of the basics of global population has two features that recommend it in comparison to the huge existing collection of similar texts. First, as Europeans, they write from a truly global perspective without the inordinate concentration on US empirical examples found in most books on population by US authors. Second, though most introductory surveys of world population concentrate on the impact of changing vital rates (births and deaths), both the title and content of this book emphasize the growing importance of both internal and international migration as key components of population change in today's world. The book is well suited for library collections on population worldwide and offers a more international perspective for students in US universities. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All undergraduate collections. -- E. Carlson CHOICE 201011
Author Bio
Rainer Munz is Senior Fellow at the World Economics archive in Hamburg and heads the research and development division at the ERSTE BankAlbert F. Rieterer teaches at the Institutes of Sociology and Ethnology at the University of Vienna, the Institute of Sociology at the University of Graz and the Institute of Political Science at the University of Innesbruck.