Overcrowded World?

Global Population and International Migration
By Rainer M?nz and Albert F. Reiterer

Today our planet is home to 6.8 billion people. By the year 2050, the global population will have grown to 9 billion.

Yet the problems that will come with this massive expansion are not universal. Many developing nations will experience high demographic growth, while industrialized countries will have to deal with aging and eventually shrinking populations, as well as with more immigration. Overcrowded World? Global Population and International Migration offers a perspective on the causes and effects of rapid population change, and asks two vital questions: how can  Earth sustain this growth? And what can we do to improve the living conditions of present and future generations?

Rainer M?nz is head of research and development at Erste Bank and Senior Fellow at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics.

Albert F. Reiterer teaches Social Science at the Universities of Vienna, Graz and Innsbruck.

Reviewed in November 2010 CHOICE.

“M?nz and Reiterer are German social scientists, and their compact newreview of the basics of global population has two features thatrecommend it in comparison to the huge existing collection of similartexts. First, as Europeans, they write from a truly global perspectivewithout the inordinate concentration on US empirical examples found inmost books on population by US authors. Second, though mostintroductory surveys of world population concentrate on the impact ofchanging vital rates (births and deaths), both the title and content ofthis book emphasize the growing importance of both internal andinternational migration as key components of population change intoday's world. The book is well suited for library collections onpopulation worldwide and offers a more international perspective forstudents in US universities. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All undergraduate collections.”  -- E. Carlson, Florida State University