The World's Population: An Encyclopedia of Critical Issues, Crises, and Ever-Growing Countries

by Fred M. Shelley

Overview

This one-volume encyclopedia examines key topics, major world players, and imminent problems pertaining to the world's ever-growing population.

According to the United Nations, the population of our planet reached 7 billion people in 2011. What areas of the world have the most people? What measures, if any, are in place to control the population? Why is Europe's population shrinking, while the rest of the world is growing? This eye-opening encyclopedia answers questions like these by examining significant issues and topics relating to the population and exploring profiles of the most populated countries and cities of the world.

More than 100 alphabetically arranged entries focus on such topics as census, demography, megacity, overpopulation, and urban sprawl. Author Fred M. Shelley, an accomplished academic in the field of environmental sustainability, reveals the steps taken by major cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Tokyo, Beijing, Mexico City, Seoul, Manila, and New Delhi in handling their population, and what is being done in China and other countries to prevent overcrowding. The text includes a discussion of how factors like migration patterns, war, and disease impact population change. This comprehensive encyclopedia also includes primary document excerpts from court cases, legislation, and political speeches relating to population issues.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610695060
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/16/2014
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Fred M. Shelley is professor of geography in the department of geography and environmental sustainability at the University of Oklahoma.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Part I: Entries
Age-Specific Death Rate
Agriculture and Population
American Eugenics Society
Asiatic Barred Zone
Baby Boom
Berlin Wall
Black Death
Blackbirding
Border Fences
Borlaug, Norman
Boserup, Ester
Brain Drain
Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
Carrying Capacity
Cause-Specific Death Rates
Census
Channelized Migration
Climate Change and Population
Convict Transportation
Crude Birth Rate
Crude Death Rate
Demographic Transition Model
Demography
Dependency Ratio
Diaspora
Earth Summit
Easterlin, Richard
Ehrlich, Paul
Environmental Refugees
Epidemics
Eugenics
Euthanasia
Expatriates
Famine
Food Prices and Population
Food Production and Food Security
Galton, Sir Francis
Gender and Population
Genocide
Genocide Watch
Globalization
Gravity Model
Great Bengal Famine
Great Chinese Famine
Great Famine of 1315–1317
Great Wall of China
Green Revolution
Hardin, Garrett
History of World Population
HIV/AIDS
Human Sex Ratio
Hunting and Gathering
Illegal Immigration
Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965
Indentured Servitude
Indigenous Populations
Infant Mortality Rate
International Adoption
International Labor Migration
International Migrants Day
International Organization for Migration
Irish Potato Famine
Johnson-Reed Act
Justinian Plague
Kuznets, Simon
Life Expectancy
Malthus, Thomas
Marx, Karl
Median Age
Megacities
Megalopolis
Migration
Natural Disasters
Natural Resources and Population
Nomads
One-Child Policy
Overpopulation
Physiological Density
Population Association of America
Population Connection
Population Density
Population Pyramid
Population Reference Bureau
Primate City
Push Factors and Pull Factors
Rate of Natural Increase
Ravenstein, Ernst
Refugees
Remittances
Replacement-Level Fertility
Rockefeller, John D.
Rural to Urban Migration
Sachs, Jeffrey
Sanger, Margaret
Sex Trafficking
Simon, Julian
Slavery
Smith, Adam
Spanish Flu
Squatter Settlements
States, Nations, and Population
Total Fertility Rate
Tragedy of the Commons
United Nations Commission on Population and Development
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
United Nations Population Fund
United States Bureau of the Census
War and Population
World Refugee Day
Part II: Countries
China
India
United States of America
Indonesia
Brazil
Pakistan
Nigeria
Bangladesh
Russia
Japan
Mexico
Philippines
Vietnam
Ethiopia
Egypt
Germany
Iran
Turkey
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Thailand
France
United Kingdom
Italy
Myanmar
South Africa
South Korea
Colombia
Spain
Ukraine
Tanzania
Kenya
Argentina
Algeria
Niger
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
United Arab Emirates
Part III: Cities
Tokyo
Jakarta
Seoul
Delhi and New Delhi
Shanghai
Manila
Karachi
New York
São Paulo
Mexico City
Beijing
Guangzhou
Mumbai
Keihanshin
Moscow
Cairo
Los Angeles
Kolkata
Bangkok
Dhaka
Buenos Aires
Tehran
Istanbul
Tianjin
Shenzhen
Lagos
Rio de Janeiro
Paris
Lahore
London
Part IV: Documents
Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, 1776
Thomas Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, 1848
Johnson-Reed Act: Text of Section Establishing Immigration Quotas, 1924
Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965: Text of Amendment Eliminating National Immigration Quotas
International Adoptions: The Hague Convention, Preamble and Articles 1–5, 1993
Genocide: The Eight States of Genocide, 1998
Environmental Refugees: Living Space for Environmental Refugees (LiSER)—Mission Statement, 2002
One-Child Policy: Testimony of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Arthur Dewey Concerning China's One-Child Policy, 2004
One-Child Policy: 2008 Report of the U.S. Congressional-Executive Committee on China on Population Planning
World Refugee Day: Remarks of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the World Refugee Event, June 20, 2013
International Migrants Day: Remarks by the Director of the U.S. Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration on International Migrants Day, December 18, 2013
Climate Change and Population: Remarks of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Jakarta, Indonesia, February 16, 2014
Selected Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Overall, this encyclopedia provides a great introduction to a complicated and multifaceted topic and is an accessible starting point for those seeking to gain understanding of the complexity of issues related to population and the global implications.” —Booklist

“Overall, students and nonspecialists alike will find this work very useful; it is suitable for both public and academic libraries. Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduates; general readers.” —Choice

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