Geodemography How Population Shapes the Relations Between States Livi-Bacci

GeodemographyHow Population Shapes the Relations Between States\nAuthor(s): Massimo Livi-Bacci, David Broder\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509567867, 978-1509567867\nSynopsis\nThe last hundred years have witnessed the ongoing decline of Europes population and the explosion of Africas, major changes in migratory flows, significant variations in fertility levels across different countries and ethnic groups and the dizzying growth of large metropolises. These changes alter and sometimes disrupt relations between societies, states and regions of the world and influence political choices, with variable and often unpredictable force and speed. Past and current crises, such as the difficulties faced by governments seeking to control immigration and to manage tensions between religious and ethnic communities, now appear as the inevitable consequence of these demographic changes.\n\nGeodemography the study of how po.