Examines the past achievements as well as the current and future challenges of the world's largest multilateral donor population programs. This book provides an invaluable assessment of the state of world population programs and a fascinating look into the future of community development.
Shows that population, when unchecked, tends to increase faster than the availability of subsistence therefore preventive checks on population increase are necessary.
How the Suburbs Took Control of America and What They Plan to Do With It
There was a time when cities were the dominant force in politics, controlling who was elected and what those candidates fought for in office. This book shows how we have now entered the "Suburban Century", when the voting muscle lies within the quiet, tree-lined streets of "the burbs", far away from the dangers of city life.
Many Americans have long since forgotten that there ever was slavery along the Hudson River. Yet Sojourner Truth was born a slave near the Hudson River in Ulster County, New York, in the late 1700s. Called merely Isabella as a slave, once freed she adopted the name of Sojourner Truth and became a national figure in the struggle for the ......
The purpose of this book is to examine the scale and significance of the local dimensions of these developments and the implications for central government complementing the existing literature, which focuses almost entirely on the overall national picture. It contains a set of ten original studies which demonstrate the existence of marked geographical variations in population profiles and trends and highlight the main implications and responses. The focus is primarily on those policy areas where there needs to be a local-scale mechanism for decision-making and implementation, such as education, labour recruitment, housebuilding needs, social services and health care.
This volume clearly outlines the methods used to study population structure and change by presenting the major descriptive and analytical models developed by demographers to investigate the interrelationships between fertility, age, structure, and mortality. With illustrations, tables, and data drawn from a wide range of countries in both the ......
This volume examines how government and administration in America's largest cities have changed between 1960 and 1990. Each chapter traces demographic and economic changes over this vital, and at times turbulent, thirty year period explaining what those changes mean for politics, policies and the general quality of life. Analytic and comparative chapters extract patterns and variations which emerge from the city profiles. Each profile addresses common issues in socio-economic, coalitional, institutional, process, values and policy changes in the following American cities: Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.
What can black leaders offer African Americans who lack worthy values and are often willfully illiterate? This book places an emphasis on empowerment rather than despair.
Influenza remains one of the most important but most engimatic of the virus-borne diseases. This book summarises what is currently known about the spatial structure of influenza epidemics at a series of geographical scales, from the local to the worldwide. It is shown that the geographical behaviour of the disease may contain some elements which ......
