Title:
Handbook of population and development in India
Author:
Shiva Kumar, A. K.
ISBN:
9780198069294
Publication Information:
New Delhi : Institute for Human Development : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Physical Description:
xv, 240 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series:
Oxford India handbooks
General Note:
Contributed articles.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Population and Human Development: Contemporary Concerns / A.K. Shiva Kumar -- 2.Reaping the Demographic Dividend / Anamitra Roychowdhury -- 3.Population, Environment, and Climate Change / Sunita Narain -- 4.Why Penalize People? / Mohan Rao -- 5.Population and Food Security / Madhura Swaminathan -- 6.Revisiting India's Population Policies / Pradeep Panda -- 7.National Population Policy 2000: What Can It Achieve Realistically? / A.R. Nanda -- 8.Reducing Maternal Mortality / Rajani R. Ved -- 9.Fertility and Epidemiological Transitions: Cracks in India's Health Policy / Radhika Ramasubban -- 10.Fertility Decline in the South Indian States / K. Nagaraj -- 11.Fertility Transition: Lessons from South India / Leela Visaria -- 12.Understanding the Young Mind / Vikram Patel -- 13.The Unwanted Girl Child / Preet Rustagi -- 14.An Explosion of Aspirations / Meera Samson -- 15.Reproductive Rights and Community Action / Abhijit Das --
Contents note continued: 16.Media and Public Health: Neither Fish Nor Fowl / Kalpana Sharma -- 17.Women in India's National Population Policy: Is Empowerment Enough? / Kalyani Menon-Sen -- 18.The Changing Context and Meaning of Women's Empowerment / Srilatha Batliwala.
Abstract:
The Indian demographic scenario is characterized by large regional variations in population trends, uneven human development, adverse sex ratios, growing urbanization, and internal rural-to-urban migration. This handbook provides a comprehensive understanding of the population-development linkages, through an engagement with human development, human rights, and gender justice perspectives. The linkages between population size, birth rates, economic well-being, environmental sustainability, and economic growth are complex. Using the latest Census and National Family Health Survey data, this volume analyses a wide range of topical issues-food security, fertility, opportunities for the youth and the girl child, media and public health, and women's empowerment. Identifying past trends and future challenges, the volume calls for a more humane approach to population stabilization and endorses the popular tenet-'take care of people and the population will take care of itself'.
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