9788176465656 - Beyond Demography: Dialogue with People von Bose, Ashish; Raj, K.N. (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. xxvii + 344.

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Foreword/K.N. Raj. Preface. Acknowledgements. I. Vulnerable people and places 1. Demography of Himalayan villages missing men and lonely women. 2. Ecology economy and society in Himalayan villages. 3. Reaching the unreached in Uttarakhand demography drinking water and technology. 4. Are natural disasters manmade. 5. From population to pests in Punjab American Boll Worm and suicides in Cotton Belt. 6. Fighting female foeticide growing greed and shrinking child sex ratio. 7. Curbing female foeticide doctors governments and civil society ensure failure. 8. Empowerment of women how and when. 9. Rajasthan stalling the March of Thar desert Army's eco Battalion at work. 10. Malaria deaths in Rajasthan Desert. 11. Hunger free India by 2007 need for evergreen revolution. II. Census 2001 12. Beyond a headcount preparing for census of 2001. 13. Census in snowbound areas. 14. Census of India 2001 and after. 15. Census goldmine dissemination of 2001 data. 16. North south divide in India's demographic scene. 17. Consumer demographics people's assets in census 2001. 18. Beyond Hindu Muslim growth rates understanding socio economic reality. III. Data and research 19. Population data Mela dissemination before assimilation. Epilogue market demography. 20. Demographic data overflow and non utilisation. 21. Population research deteriorating scholarship. 22. National population policy 2000 Swaminathan to Shanmugham. 23. HDRs some reflections. IV. International vignettes 24. Towards gender sensitive population census reflections from Kathmandu. 25. Health for all by 2000 broken promises. 26. Migrant women workers victims of cross border sex Terrorism in Asia. 27. Afghan refugees in India. 28. Zeroing in on ground zero Trauma of September 11. 29. South South solidarity reflections from Kathmandu. 30. Dreams dollars reflections from a ranch. 31. Do demographers have a future. Meandering through demography in Morocco. 32. Revisiting ground zero. Book review. Index. This volume is a tribute to the late Krishna Raj the celebrated editor of Economic and Political Weekly. It brings together contributions of the author on a wide range of topics published in EPW during the last five years. It combines analysis of census data with reality check based on the author's field work all over India. It also gives a glimpse of international conferences and seminars which the author attended. 344 pp.