TY  - BOOK
AU  - Livi Bacci, Massimo
TI  - A concise history of world population
SN  - 9781405146951
U1  - 304.6 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Blackwell
KW  - Population
N1  - Humans and animals --
Divide and multiply --
Jacopo Bichi and Domenica Del Buono, Jean Guyon and Mathurine Robin --
Reproduction and survival --
The space of growth --
Environmental constraints --
A few figures --
From hunters to farmers : the Neolithic demographic transition --
Black Death and demographic decline in Europe --
The tragedy of the American Indios : old microbes and new populations --
The French Canadians : a demographic success story --
Ireland and Japan : two islands, two histories --
On the threshold of the contemporary world --
Diminishing returns and demographic growth --
Historical confirmations --
Demographic pressure and economic development --
More on demographic pressure and development : examples from the Stone Age to the present day --
Space, land, and development --
Population size and prosperity --
Increasing or decreasing returns? --
From waste to economy --
From disorder to order : the lengthening of life --
From high to low fertility --
European emigration : a unique phenomenon --
A summing up : the results of the transition --
Theoretical considerations on the relationship between demographic and economic growth --
More on the relationship between demographic and economic growth : Empirical observations --
An extraordinary phase --
The conditions of survival --
A brief geography of fertility --
The conditions and prospects for fertility decline and demographic policy --
India and China --
Fertilia and Sterilia --
Explaining a paradox --
Population and self-regulation --
The numbers of the future --
On sustainability of extended survival --
The moving limits --
The emerging limits : resources --
The emerging limits : Environment --
Calculations and values
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