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World Population Development - MD360P06
Title: Světový populační vývoj
Czech title: Světový populační vývoj
Guaranteed by: Department of Demography and Geodemography (31-360)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2019
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: summer s.:combined
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Level: basic
Is provided by: MD360P86
Explanation: nahrazeno MD360P86
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Jiřina Kocourková, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): RNDr. Klára Hulíková Tesárková, Ph.D.
doc. RNDr. Jiřina Kocourková, Ph.D.
RNDr. Tomáš Kučera, CSc.
Is co-requisite for: MD360P15N
Is incompatible with: MD360P86
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Annotation -
The course focuses on the world population development and its role in societal development, including important linkages between demographic development, and social, cultural and political development. The course is organized around two major themes. The first part is devoted to the history of population development, the recent trends in the world population dynamics, and the theory of demographic transition. Topics covered include: the concept of social development and the demographic factor, contemporary demographic trends and processes, including age and sex structure, fertility, mortality, family formation and dissolution. A special emphasis is placed on the issue of population growth in the global context, its perspectives and predicting. The second part is devoted to regional demography, in which population development in the world regions is analysed in more detail.

Last update: KOC@NATUR.CUNI.CZ (25.03.2018)
Literature -

1. Caldwell, J.C. (2006): Demographic Transition Theory, Springer.

2. Chesnais, J.- C. (1998): The Demographic Transition. Stages, Patterns, and Economic Implications. Clarendon Press. Oxford.

3. Caselli, G., Vallin, J., Wunsch, G. (2005): Demography: Analysis and Synthesis. Academic Press. Elsevier.

4. Guzmán, J.M., Rodríguez, J., Martínez, J., Contreras, J.M., González, D. (2006): The Demography of Latin America and the Caribbean since 1950. Population-E, 61(5-6), 519-576.

5. Tabutin, D., Schoumaker, B. (2005): The Demography of the Arab World and the Middle East from the 1950s to the 2000s. Population-E, 60 (5-6), 505-616.

6. Tabutin, D., Schoumaker, B. (2004): The Demography of Sub-Saharan Africa from the 1950s to the 2000s. Population-E, 59 (3-4), 455-555.

7. Véron, J. (2008): The Demography of South Asia from the 1950s to the 2000s. Population-E, 63(1), 9-90.

8. Avdeev, A., Eremenko, T., Festy, P., Gaymu, J., Le Bouteillec, N., Springer, S. (2011): Populations and demographic trends of European countries, 1980–2010. Population-E, 66, 1, 9–130.

9. Klein, S.H. (2004): A Population History of the US. Cambridge University Press.

10. Zhao, Z., Guo, F: (eds.) (2007): Transition and Challenge. China´s Population at the Beginning of the 21st Century.OxfordUniversityPress.

11. United Nations (2015): World Population Prospects: The 2015 Revision, DVD Edition. United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division

12. Kocourková, J., Šídlo, L., Novák, M., Sýkora, L. (2018): Growing gap in population dynamics, closing the gap in population size: the European Union and the United States compared. Geografie, 123, 1, 37–62.

 

 www.prb.org

www.unpopulation.org

www.un.org

Last update: Janáková Kuprová Barbora, RNDr., Ph.D. (28.10.2019)
Requirements to the exam

Course continuity: Introduction to demography

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit: prescribed and active participation in class, quality elaboration and successful presentation of own group research project + delivery of individual short essay on a chosen topic (ideally in the form of a popular science article). A detailed explanation of the organization of the exercise will take place at the opening lesson and will be available in writing in Moodle.

Examination: level of written test and oral exam.

Last update: Janáková Kuprová Barbora, RNDr., Ph.D. (28.10.2019)
Syllabus -

Sylabus is available in Czech.

Last update: Janáková Kuprová Barbora, RNDr., Ph.D. (28.10.2019)
 
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