How Population Change Will Transform Our World

Robert Mayhew, Literary Review An excellent, succinct guide.

Foreign Affairs ... provides a powerful reminder that debates over immigrations, social welfare, and inequality will intensify in the decades ahead.

L. MacK, Population and Development Review Global Change is a major concern of the Martin Institute, and this book is a solid contribution in that area. It presents a comprehensive and balanced treatment of global demography ... The text is [...] enlivened by brief narratives on the life experiences and aspirations of young persons in the various regions.

Jonathan Cowie, Concatenation Sarah Harper provides a fascinating graphically illustrated and well researched summary of current demographic trends.

Sarah Harper (MA (Cantab.) Cambridge; DPhil (Oxon) Oxford) is Professor of Gerontology at Oxford University and Director of the Oxford Institute of Ageing, a multi-disciplinary research unit concerned with the implications of population ageing, and director of the Clore Programme on Population-Environment Change. Her research concerns globalization and global ageing, and the impact of population change, in particular the implications at the global, societal and individual level of the age-structural shift from predominantly young to predominantly older societies. She has authored, edited and contributed to several books, including Families in Ageing Societies (Editor, OUP, 2004), Ageing Societies: Myths, Challenges, and Opportunities (Hodder Arnold, 2005) and Is the Planet Full? (Contributer, OUP, 2014). She is also the editor of the Journal of Population Ageing (Springer).

1: The Age Narrative 2: How did we get here? 3: The Grey Burden 4: The Peril of Youth 5: Too Many Children? 6: Our Future Selves Afterword Notes and References Bibliography