The world's population : an encyclopedia of critical issues, crises, and ever-growing countries

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The world's population : an encyclopedia of critical issues, crises, and ever-growing countries

Fred M. Shelley

ABC-CLIO, c2015

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 395) and index

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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.

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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 Sao 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

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