Title:	Europe's population
Authors:	Ray Hall
Keywords:	Europe's
Issue Date:	1995
Publisher:	UCL Press
Description:	In the final decade of the twentieth century, two common themes of public debate and of academic discussion in the social sciences have concerned futures research, and the European scene in the context both of developments in the European Union and of post-Cold War changes in other parts of the continent. At the 1992 Annual Conference of the Institute of British Geographers, the Population Geography Study Group organized a session on the future of population change in Europe, bringing together these two major themes in the context of demographic change. The conference session elicited a considerable amount of interest, and it was there that the initial idea for this current volume was first discussed. The resulting book is actually somewhat different in structure and content from the original conference session. Certain contributions to the conference have not carried forward to the book, whereas new authors have been commissioned to produce chapters on topics not originally covered. Where certain chapters originated in conference papers, they have been rewritten for the purposes of publication. The chapter by Maria-Carmen Faus-Pujol is based on the paper she originally gave as the first John Coward Memorial Lecture, in honour of the distinguished scholar of population geography who was killed in the Kegworth plane crash of january 1989. The aim of Europe’s population: towards the next century is to contribute to informed discussion of the demographic futures of Europe as a whole. The whole range of population geography is covered, including considerations of fertility and mortality, household and family structures, labour-force issues, population redistribution and international migration. The authors were each asked to look to the year 2000 and, where possible, beyond. The approach adopted eschews highly technical projections, instead highlighting issues and alternative scenarios within general contexts of societal and economic evolution. The authors have been drawn from several European countries, and the intended coverage is Europe-wide, although in certain chapters the paucity of current data from some countries (especially in eastern Europe) narrows the discussion to the countries of the European Union. The editors express their thanks to the contributors for their work, and to the technical staff of their respective institutions for cartographic and typing support.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/56159
ISBN:	0-203-97541-3
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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