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999			_c152619 _d152619
020			_a9781405146951
040			_cCUS
082			_a304.6 _bLUI/A
100			_aLivi Bacci, Massimo
245		2	_aA concise history of world population/ _cMassimo Livi-Bacci
250			_a4th ed.
260			_aNew York: _bBlackwell, _c2007.
300			_axv, 279 p. ; _c24 cm.
505			_aHumans 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.
650			_aPopulation
942			_cWB16