Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Population Change in the United Kingdom

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Beskrivning

A quarter of a century ago, Heather Joshi edited a landmark volume (sponsored by the British Society for Population Studies and the Centre for Economic Policy Research) entitled The Changing Population of Britain. In 2014-15, to mark the 25th anniversary of this book, the BSPS teamed up with the British Academy to hold a series of events on population developments in the UK and the policy issues that they raise, and has built on these presentations to produce a new edited collection on the changing population of the UK.This book shows that the UK's population is increasing faster than at any point in the last 100 years, it is getting progressively older and it is becoming more diverse culturally and ethnically. More school leavers are going on to university. Cohabitation has been replacing marriage, more children live in one-parent families and young adults are finding it harder to get on the property ladder. Many women are delaying having children until their 40s. Cities have seen a resurgence in population but there is still pressure on the countryside, while the north-south divide is getting ever wider, as too are local socio-economic disparities. The contributors to this book document these changes, examine their causes and discuss future prospects and their policy implications.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2016-07-27
Mått: 161 x 233 x 23 mm
Vikt: 544 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 276
Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781783485918

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Sociologi

Mer om författaren

Tony Champion is Emeritus Professor of Population Geography at Newcastle University and has a long-standing interest in spatial patterns of population and migration. He was President of the British Society for Population Studies in 2013-15.Jane Falkingham is Professor of Demography and International Social Policy at the University of Southampton and Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change whose remit is to ‘improve our understanding of the drivers and consequences of populations change’. She is the current (2015-17) BSPS President.Contributors:Ann Berrington, Professor of Demography and Social Statistics, University of Southampton Jakub Bijak, Associate Professor of Demography, University of SouthamptonGemma Catney, Dept of Geography, University of LiverpoolErnestina Coast, Assoc. Prof. of Population Studies, London School of EconomicsIan Diamond, University of AberdeenGeorge Disney, post-graduate, University of SouthamptonSylvie Dubuc, London School of EconomicsMaria Evandrou, Professor of Gerontology, University of SouthamptonNissa Finney, University of St AndrewsEmily Freeman, Dept of Health and Social Policy, London School of EconomicsUrsula Henz, Dept of Sociology, London School of EconomicsSarah Lubman, postdoc, University of SouthamptonAlan Marshall, Dept of Geography, University of St AndrewsJames Nazroo, Professor of Sociology, University of ManchesterPaul Norman, Lecturer in Human Geography, University of LeedsLudi Simpson, Professor of Population Studies, University of ManchesterAthina Vlachantoni, Associate Professor of Gerontology, University of SouthamptonArkadiusz Wisniowski, University of Southampton

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[T]he editors have delivered a book that will serve as a benchmark in demographic research for the next 25 years…. Champion and Falkingham have brought together contributions that collectively provide an authoritative portrayal of the transformations occurring over the last quarter of a century. Whilst each chapter offers new insights into changes in the structure and composition of the population or the underlying behavioural processes and their outcomes, the volume as a whole provides a comprehensive and very useful synthesis of the complex and interrelated nature of socio-demographic dynamics. It is indeed a worthy successor to Joshi’s collection published in 1989 and one that I feel sure that many academics and policy makers will refer to in the years ahead.

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