Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapter 1 The Space and Strategy of Demographic Growth

1.1 Humans and Animals

1.2 Divide and Multiply

1.3 Jacopo Bichi and Domenica Del Buono, Jean Guyon, and Mathurine Robin

1.4 Reproduction and Survival

1.4.1 The frequency of births

1.4.2 The fecund period used for reproduction

1.5 The Space of Growth

1.6 Environmental Constraints

1.7 A Few Figures

Notes

Further Reading

Chapter 2 Demographic Growth: Between Choice and Constraint

2.1 Constraint, Choice, Adaptation

2.2 From Hunters to Farmers: The Neolithic Demographic Transition

2.3 Black Death and Demographic Decline in Europe

2.4 The Tragedy of the American Indios: Old Microbes and New Populations

2.5 Africa, America, and the Slave Trade

2.6 The French Canadians: A Demographic Success Story

2.7 Ireland and Japan: Two Islands, Two Histories

2.8 On the Threshold of the Contemporary World: China and Europe

Notes

Further Reading

Chapter 3 Land, Labor, and Population

3.1 Diminishing Returns and Demographic Growth

3.2 Historical Confirmations

3.3 Demographic Pressure and Economic Development

3.4 More on Demographic Pressure and Development: Examples from the Stone Age to the Present Day

3.5 Space, Land, and Development

3.5.1 The occupation of uninhabited or sparsely populated regions

3.5.2 Transformation and land reclamation

3.5.3 External expansion

3.6 Population Size and Prosperity

3.7 Increasing or Decreasing Returns?

Notes

Further Reading

Chapter 4 Toward Order and Efficiency: The Recent Demography of Europe and the Developed World

4.1 From Waste to Economy

4.2 From Disorder to Order: The Lengthening of Life

4.3 From High to Low Fertility

4.4 European Emigration: A Unique Phenomenon

4.5 A Summing Up: The Results of the Transition

4.6 Theoretical Considerations on the Relationship between Demographic and Economic Growth

4.6.1 Purely demographic factors

4.6.2 Factors of Scale and Dimensional Factors in General

4.6.3 The Stock of Knowledge and Technological Progress

4.7 More on the Relationship between Demographic and Economic Growth: Empirical Observations

Notes

Further Reading

Chapter 5 The Populations of Poor Countries

5.1 An Extraordinary Phase

5.2 The Conditions of Survival

5.3 A Brief Geography of Fertility

5.4 The Conditions and Prospects for Fertility Decline and Demographic Policy

5.5 India and China

5.6 Fertilia and Sterilia

5.7 Explaining a Paradox

Notes

Further Reading

Chapter 6 The Future

6.1 Population and Self‐Regulation

6.2 The Numbers of the Future

6.3 The North–South Divide and International Migration

6.3.1 Demographic Inequalities

6.3.2 Economic Inequalities

6.3.3 Migration Policies

6.3.4 Geography and Migratory Systems

6.3.5 Climate Change and Environment

6.4 On Sustainability of Extended Survival

6.4.1 Biological Sustainability

6.4.2 The AIDS Epidemic: Sustainable for the Rich, Unsustainable for the Poor

6.4.3 Political Sustainability

6.4.4 Economic Sustainability

6.5 The Moving Limits

6.6 Non-Renewable Resources and the Parable of Pauperia and Tycoonia

6.7 Food for All?

6.8 Space and Environment in a Smaller Planet

6.9 Calculations and Values

Notes

Major Scientific Journals for Further Reading

Index

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