Title:	Coping with Demographic Change: A Comparative View on Education and Local Government in Germany and Poland
Authors:	Reinhold Sackmann • Walter Bartl Bernadette Jonda • Katarzyna Kopycka Christian Rademacher
Keywords:	Coping with Demographic Change
Issue Date:	2015
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	Demographic change in the form of an ageing and slightly shrinking population is seen as a new challenge to society. The introductory chapter highlights the approach of this book: a response-focussed sociological population analysis using systematic theory, empirical mixed-methods research and international comparative analysis. An overview of the book chapters is given. Demographic change is seen as a major challenge for contemporary societies. As opposed to wars, revolutions or economic crises, demographic change is a continuous, evolutionary development, seldom spectacular, but in its effects nevertheless a revolutionary challenge for societies. Societies have to either adapt to the new structural constraints or, if they fail to do so, risk a disruption of such heterogeneous fields as public finances, the labour market, institutionalised solidarity, education, and economic mentalities. From a scientific perspective, current demographic change in OECD countries consists of two components: demographic ageing and a decreasing population. Whereas demographic ageing certainly will hit all OECD countries (and has done so for a number of decades already), decreasing populations are a quite recent phenomena. We still do not know how many societies will experience the latter phenomenon and for how long, but the likelihood is high that most OECD countries will witness some period of shrinking populations in the next 2 decades. As our knowledge of countries with decreasing populations is rather limited, this book will concentrate on this new form of demographic change (without neglecting the effects of demographic ageing). The book series European Studies of Population (ESPO) aims at disseminating population and family research, with special relevance for Europe. It may analyse past, present and/or future trends, as well as their determinants and consequences. The character of the series is multidisciplinary, including formal demographic analyses, as well as social, economic and/or historical population and family studies. The following types of studies are of primary importance: (a) internationally relevant studies, (b) European comparative studies, (c) innovative theoretical and methodological studies, and (d) policy-relevant scientific studies. The series may include monographs, edited volumes and reference works. The book series is published under the auspices of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS).
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/53283
ISBN:	978-3-319-10301-3
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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