Biodemography: An Introduction to Concepts and Methods

✍ Scribed by James R. Carey, Deborah Roach

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 476
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to biodemography, an exciting interdisciplinary field that unites the natural science of biology with the social science of human demography. Biodemography is an essential resource for demographers, epidemiologists, gerontologists, and health professionals as well as ecologists, population biologists, entomologists, and conservation biologists. This accessible and innovative book is also ideal for the classroom. James Carey and Deborah Roach cover everything from baseline demographic concepts to biodemographic applications, and present models and equations in discrete rather than continuous form to enhance mathematical accessibility. They use a wealth of real-world examples that draw from data sets on both human and nonhuman species and offer an interdisciplinary approach to demography like no other, with topics ranging from kinship theory and family demography to reliability engineering, tort law, and demographic disasters such as the Titanic and the destruction of Napoleon's Grande Armée.

✦ Table of Contents

Summary of Contents
Foreword • James W. Vaupel
Preface
Introduction
1 Demography Basics
2 Life Tables
3 Mortality
4 Reproduction
5 Population I: Basic Models
6 Population II: Stage Models
7 Population III: Extensions of Stable Theory
8 Human Life History and Demography
9 Applied Demography I: Estimating Parameters
10 Applied Demography II: Evaluating and Managing Populations
11 Biodemography Shorts
Appendix I: Visualization of Demographic Data
Appendix II: Demographic Storytelling
Appendix III: Ten Visualization Rules of Thumb
Appendix IV: Management of Demographic Data
References Cited
Index