Lectures
Demography: the end of the transition?
The demographic question lies upstream of most problems associated with sustainable development. We will review the current state of the world population and see how it is likely to evolve over the next fifty or hundred years, and we will examine the theoretical foundations and technical methods behind the projections that forecast a stabilization of the world population at around 9 or 10 billion.
18 March - The demographic transition: theory or process?
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25 March – Methodology and uncertainties of demographic projections
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1er April – Population dynamics: the constraints on change
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8 April – 0 Are the projection hypotheses for developing countries realistic?
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29 April – Models with interactions between demography and economics
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6 May – The "end of transition" in the developed countries
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13 May – Reproductive capacities under threat?
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20 May – Population in sustainable development studies
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Henri Leridon is Emeritus Director of Research at the Institut national d’études démographiques (INED). His research focuses on fertility, fecundity, demography of the family and population dynamics. He is former head of the Epidemiology, Demography and Social Sciences INSERM-INED joint research unit, and currently heads the multi-disciplinary French child cohort study (ELFE).