International Handbook of Rural Demography
This is the third in an essential series of Springer handbooks that explore key aspects of the nexus between demography and social science. With an inclusive international perspective, and founded on the principles of social demography, this handbook
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László J. Kulcsár Katherine J. Curtis Editors
International Handbook of Rural Demography
International Handbook of Rural Demography
International Handbooks of Population
Volume 3
Series Editor Dudley L. Poston, Jr. Professor of Sociology, George T. & Gladys H. Abell Professor of Liberal Arts Director, Asian Studies Program Texas A&M University ACAD Bldg. 425B (office) College Station, Texas 77843-4351, USA
The International Handbooks of Population offer up-to-date scholarly summaries and sources of information on the major subject areas and issues of demography and population. Each handbook examines its particular subject area in depth, providing timely, accessible coverage of its full scale and scope, discusses substantive contributions for deeper understanding, and provides reliable guidance on the direction of future developments. Volumes will explore topics of vital interest: Population Aging, Poverty, Mortality, Family Demography, Migration, Race and Ethnic Demography and more. Each volume will provide a state-of-the-art treatment of its respective area. The series will quickly prove useful to a broad audience including demographers, practitioners and scholars across a range of disciplines.
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Editors László J. Kulcsár Kansas State University Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work Waters Hall 202D Manhattan, KS 66506 USA [email protected]
Katherine J. Curtis University of Wisconsin-Madison Community and Environmental Sociology 1450 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 USA [email protected]
ISSN 1877-9204 ISBN 978-94-007-1841-8 e-ISBN 978-94-007-1842-5 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1842-5 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011937704 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Acknowledgements
This handbook would not have been possible without our colleagues in the W–2001 – Population Dynamics and Change: Aging, Ethnicity and Land Use Change in Rural Communities working group under the USDA CSREES. This community of rural demographers from various academic fields has been the conceptual nucleus behind this project. We wish to thank Dudley L. Poston for his confidence and support throughout the whole process as well as David L. Brown and Joachim Singelmann for their continuous advice and encouragement. We would like to acknowledge the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station at Kansas State University and the Wisco
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