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Latest Issue


No.43
Autumn 2011

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Contents


Population, Education, and Democracy:
Refocusing Global Development Priorities

Opening Symposium on 29 September 2011

Upcoming Wittgenstein Centre expert meetings
• population and sustainable development • education and
demographic transitions • fertility, mortality, and migration
in population projections

Reprint from Science: Global Human Capital
(Integrating Education and Population)

 



Past Issues


No.42
Spring 2011

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Contents


Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital
An agreement to jointly establish the Wittgenstein Centre recently signed by IIASA, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the WU-Vienna University of Economics and Business.

From Demography through Education to Human Capital
The Directors, Leaders, and Research Focus of the Wittgenstein Centre

Towards a New Set of Science-based World Population Projections by Age, Sex, and Level of Educational Attainment

Reprint from Science: Remeasuring Aging




No.41
Winter 2009/10



What Can Demographers Contribute to Understanding the Link between Population and Climate Change?

Reminding ourselves of the findings of The 2002 Global Science Panel on Population and Environment
° Science policy statement of the Global Science Panel Population in Sustainable Development

Reprinted from Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Editorial
Towards a world of 2–6 billion well-educated and therefore healthy and wealthy people

Announcing a major new IIASA project for 2009-2014:
Age and Cohort Change


No.40
Winter 2008/09

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IIASA-VID Projections of Educational Attainment by age and sex for 120 countries, 1970-2050

New Data on Human Capital
° Measuring Human Capital
° The Need for New Age-Specific Data
° The Example of Pakistan

Reprint from Science: The Demography of Educational Attainment and Economic Growth

Announcing a major new IIASA project for 2009-2014: Forecasting Societies' Adaptive Capacities to Climate Change


No. 39
Winter 2007/08

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A World of Simultaneous Population Growth and Shrinking Unified by Accelerating Aging

Article from IIASA’s Options: The growing divergence in population trends and concerns

Conference Announcement: Effects of Migration on Population Structures in Europe

Reprint from Nature: The coming acceleration of global population ageing

Human and Social Capital for Global Development


No. 38
Autumn 2006

 


FOCUS ON EUROPE

The Forces Driving Unprecedented Population Ageing
° European Demographic Data Sheet 2006
° Tempo Effect and Adjusted TFR
° Range of Likely Future Trends in the EU-25

Reprint from Science:

° The Demography of Growing European Identity

Supporting Online Material. This supplement contains: Introductory Text / Materials and Methods / Tables A1 to A4 / References
Download supplement at Science (PDF) or at IIASA (PDF)

Book Announcement: The New Generations of Europeans


No. 37
Autumn 2005

POPNET No.37


FOCUS ON ASIA
° The "Asian Century" Will Be Based on Human Capital
° Population-Environment Interactions in Coastal Areas of Asia after the Tsunami
°Update from the Asian MetaCentre
°Reprint from Nature: Average Remaining Lifetimes Can Increase Human Populations Age
°International Meeting on "Postponement of Childbearing in Europe"
°Asian MetaCentre Conference on "Population and Development in Asia: Critical Issues for a Sustainable Future"

No. 36
Autumn 2004



FOCUS ON AFRICA
° Population, Human Capital, and Water in Egypt
° Cairo Demographic Center (CDC)
° African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)
° Former IIASA Researcher Joins UNECA
° Update from the Asian MetaCentre
° IIASA-AED-World Bank Project on Forecasting Human Capital
° Three IIASA PDE Case Studies in Africa
° The End of World Population Growth in the 21st Century
° How to Deal with Uncertainty in Population Forecasting?

No. 35
Summer 2003


FOCUS ON EUROPE
° Addressing the Challenges of Europe's New Demography;
° Vienna Institute of Demography (VID);
° Update from the Asian MetaCentre;
° Reprint from Science: Europe's Population at a Turning Point;
° Forthcoming IIASA book: The End of World Population Growth in the 21st Century: New Challenges for Human Capital Formation and Sustainable Development.

No. 34
Spring 2002

° Population in Sustainable Development;
° Asian MetaCentre Enters Phase 2;
° New Initiative in European Demography;
° The End of World Population Growth (Nature Reprint)

No. 33
Summer 2000

 


Announcing the Establishment of a New Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis

No. 32
Summer 1999


1974-1999: 25 Years of International Population Analysis at IIASA

No. 31
Fall 1998

Population, AIDS and Sustainable Development in Southern Africa
Please view Options, Fall 1998, as Popnet, No.31 is not available in electronic format.

No. 30
Fall 1997

FAMSIM at Austria
A prototype dynamic microsimulation model for life course projections and an evaluation and comparison of family policy

No. 28
Spring 1997

Population and Environment on the Yucatán Peninsula


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