Global Disorder: An Important Agenda for 21st Century Population Studies

摘要: Poor underprivileged countries face a long period of high population increase while poverty and natural resource limits provide growing constraints to the management increase. Demography appears increasingly turn study populations well underway in fertility transition. The "development optimism" implied this shift needs be set against evidence rapidly inequalities between within countries. question raised whether reductions will reach replacement levels everywhere. Das Guptas recent contribution on role institutional socio-political change for demographic transition offer very viable framework further research historical Europe as current non-European states. However it extended direction given by Castells theories process social exclusion information age order incorporate situations where stabilises over level. implications such scenario are challenge both science politics. (authors)