Foreword
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
General Introduction
Part 1 Theoretical Foundations John F. May
1 Contemporary Population Issues Jack A. Goldstone and John F. May
2 Population Policies Framework Karen Hardee
3 Classical Foundations of Past and Present Population Policies Yves Charbit
4 Population, Burden of Disease, and Health Services Vincent Turbat, Rebecca Gribble, and Wu Zeng
5 Population, Development, and Policy John Bongaarts, Michele Gragnolati, S. Amer Ahmed, and Jamaica Corker
6 Population Dynamics and the Environment: The Demo-climatic Transition Alisson Flávio Barbieri and William K. Pan7 Population and Food System Sustainability George Mergos
Part 2 Empirical Evidence
8 Sub-Saharan Africa: Slow Fertility Transitions Despite Policy Efforts Aristide Romaric Bado, Jean-Pierre Guengant, and Hamidou Issaka Maga
9 The United States and Canada: Demographic Realities and Policy Responses Kaja Jurczynska and Jay Gribble
10 Population Policies in Latin American and the Caribbean: From Carmen Miró to the Montevideo Consensus Jose Miguel Guzman
11 Demographic Features of West Asian and North African Countries: The Impact of Population Policies Mehtab S. Karim, Elena Ambrosetti, and Zahia Ouadah-Bedidi
12 South Asia: Did Population Policies Trigger a Fertility Convergence? Leela Visaria13 Population Policies in East Asia and Oceania Stuart Gietel-Basten, Christian Joy Pattawi Cruz, Rachel Ganly, Zilin Li, and Jason Tsz Him Cheung
14 Europe: Low Fertility, Aging, and Migration Policies Elena Ambrosetti
15 Population Institutions and International Population Conferences Stan Bernstein, Karen Hardee, John F. May, and Marianne Haslegrave
Part 3 Policy Levers and Modelling
16 Data Collection for Population Policies Thomas Spoorenberg
17 Family Policies: How do they Differ around the World? Katharina Wesolowski and Sunnee Billingsley
18 Population and Health Policies in Urban Areas Myriam Vučkovic and Alayne Adams
19 Policies Needed to Capture Demographic Dividends Vincent Turbat
20 Linkages Between Family Planning and HIV/AIDS Programs Rachel Sullivan Robinson
21 Population Projections and Population Policies Thomas Buettner
22 Population Policy Models R. Scott Moreland
23 Funding of Population Policies and Programs Arin Dutta, Kevin Ward, and Suneeta Sharma
24 Measuring the Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Impact of Population Policies Michele Tarsilla
Part 4 New Policy Challenges
25 Population Aging and Public Policy Stipica Mudrazija and Jacqueline L. Angel
26 Pension Policies John Turner
27 The Contraceptive Revolution John Cleland
28 The Role of Abortion in Population Policies Barbara Crane and Emily A. Maistrellis
29 International Migration Policies Susan K. Brown
30 The Education Revolution Anne Goujon
31 Priority Groups in Population Policies Sara Rotenberg
32 Demographic Dynamics, Poverty, and Inequality Jorge A. Paz
33 Bioethics, Sex Selection, and Gender Equity Laura Rahm
34 Population and National Security Jennifer D. Sciubba and Seongjoon Hwang
35 Demographic Sustainability Toshihiko Hara
36 Prospects for Population Policies and Interventions John F. May and Jack A. Goldstone
General Conclusion Jack A. Goldstone and John F. May
