Table of Contents

1: Why does rural demography still matter? : László J. Kulcsár.- 2: Challenges in the analysis of rural populations in the United States: Steve. H. Murdock, Michael Cline, Mary Zey.- 3: Rural natural increase in the new century: America’s third demographic transition: Kenneth M. Johnson, Daniel T. Lichter.- 4: Migration and rural population change: Comparative views in more developed nations: David Brown.- 5: World Urbanization: Destiny and reconceptualization: Avery M. Guest.- 6: Rural aging in international context: E. Helen Berry.- 7: Europe’s rural demography: Anthony Champion.- 8: The demography of rural Latin America: The case of Chile: Leif Jensen, David Ader.- 9: Rural demography in Asia and the Pacific Rim: Gavin Jones, Premchand Dommaraju.- 10: Demographic change and rural-urban inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Theory and trends: Parfait M Eloundou-Enyegue, Sarah C. Giroux.- 11: Demographic structure and process in rural China: Dudley L. Poston, JR., Mary Ann Davis, Danielle Xiaodan Deng.- 12: Rural population trends in Mexico: demographic and labor changes: Landy Sabches, Edith Pachecco.- 13: Rural demography in India: T.V. Sekher.- 14: The aboriginal people of Canada: a rural perspective: Gustave Goldmann.- 15: Rural race and ethnicity: Rogelio Sáenz.- 16: Family matters: gender, work arrangements, and the rural myth: Leann M. Tiggs, Hae Yeon Choo.- 17: Rural families in transition: Kristin E. Smith, Marybeth J. Mattingly.- 18: Rural health disparities: P. Johnelle Sparks.- 19: Perspectives on U.S. rural labor markets in the first decade of the twenty-first century: Alexander C. Vias.- 20: Race and place: Determinants of Poverty in the Texas borderland and the lower Mississippi Delte: Joachim Singelmann, Tim Slack, Kayla Fontenot.- 21: Rural jobs: Making a living in the countryside: Gary Paul green.- 22: The spatial heterogeneity and geographic extent of population deconcentration: Measurement and policyimplications: Joanna P. Ganning, Benjamin D. McCall.- 23: Integrating ecology and demography to understand the interrelationship between environmental issues and rural populations: Christopher A. Lepczyk, Marc Linderman, Roger B. Hammer.- 24: Boom or bust? Population dynamics in natural resource dependent counties: Richelle Winkler, Cheng Cheng, Shaun Golding.- 25: Neoliberal democratization and public health inequalities in Sub-Saharan Africa: A proposed conceptual and empirical design: Moshi Optat Herman.- 26: Divers ruralities in the 21st Century: from effacement to (re)invention: Keith Halfacree.

About the Author

Dr. Laszlo J. Kulcsar is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work. His field of expertise is social demography and regional development, with a particular emphasis on migration, urbanization and spatial inequalities. He does research on population dynamics and social change in rural areas, focusing on two major trends: aging and the impact of natural resource use. Dr. Kulcsar participates in NSF funded interdisciplinary research programs that tie population projections to land use change and the transforming rural landscape in the Great Plains. He also studies the social and demographic transformation of Eastern Europe from a historical perspective, with a particular emphasis on the post-socialist period. Dr. Kulcsar teaches courses on social and spatial inequalities, population dynamics, aging, immigration and sociological methodology. Katherine J. Curtis University of Wisconsin-Madison Assistant Professor PhD, Sociology, University of Washington. Curtis work broadly addresses the demography of inequality. Her analytical approach aims to address spatial and temporal aspects of the demographic features underlying inequality-generating processes. Her work consistently engages multiple literatures across disciplines to gain greater substantive and technical insight. Curtis work has been published in the fields top journal and featured in special publications and conferences focusing on spatial demography.

Reviews

What is the meaning of “rural” in the highly interconnected global economies of the 21st Century?  This masterful book addresses this question and several others by bringing together, in a single edited collection, the most up-to-date research on global rural demographic issues and trends possible.  The editors are to be congratulated, first, for structuring a thoughtful and comprehensive set of highly relevant themes and, second, for recruiting a first-rate team of rural experts to share their latest research and insights.  The book will appeal both to the rural practitioner and the specialist researcher/teacher for years to come.Paul R. VossUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  This handbook is a major contribution to rural demography, at a time of growing interest and activity in this field. The breadth in terms of topics and subjects represents a broad view of rural demography, covering relevant scholarship in the US and across the globe. An important and comprehensive work, this handbook should have a major impact on the continuing strength and growth of this aspect of demography.Glenn V. FuguittUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison