This comprehensive handbook provides an overview and update of the issues, theories, processes, and applications of the social science of population studies.

The works selected for this volume provide unique insight into complex demographic issues, as well as highlight many of the growing foci in the discipline.

This comprehensive, introductory text takes an applied, interdisciplinary approach. Because one author is a sociologist and the other a demographer, the text introduces perspectives from many different disciplines.

Prof. K. Mahadevan and P. Krishnan have demonstrated their great skill in being pointed, succinct, clear and selective.... Social scientists will learn a lot about demographic and developmental methodologies discussed in this book.

He also analyzes the problems of women who postpone having children to ages when risks of failure become significant.The author also reviews the two most prominent population theories Malthus and the fertility transition and questions why ...

The book concludes by arguing the case for conducting historical demographic research with a broad, interdisciplinary ideal in mind. Historians and sociologists will find the book invaluable.

Addressing the methodological and topical challenges facing demographers working in remote regions, this book compares and contrasts the research, methods and models, and policy applications from peripheral regions in developed nations.