@article{1445750,
      recid = {1445750},
      author = {Skirbekk, Vegard,},
      title = {Decline and prosper! : changing global birth rates and the  advantages of fewer children /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxxiii, 396 pages) :},
      abstract = {Globally, women are having half as many children as they  had just fifty years ago. Why have birth rates fallen, and  how will low fertility affect our shared future? In Decline  and Prosper!, demographic expert Vegard Skirbekk offers  readers an accessible, comprehensive and evidence-based  overview of human reproduction. Readers learn about the  evolution of childbearing across different populations and  how fertility is related to (changes in) our reproductive  capacity, contraception, education, religion, partnering,  policies, economics, assisted reproduction, and  catastrophes. Readers will explore the future of family  size and its impact on human welfare, women's empowerment  and the environment. Skirbekk argues that low fertility is  on the whole a good thing, while recognizing the challenges  of population aging and "coincidental" childlessness. A  balanced, integrative examination of one of the most  important issues of our time, Decline and Prosper! drives  home the fact that we must ultimately adapt to a world with  fewer children. The book will be invaluable to anyone who  is interested in the far-reaching effects of global  fertility, including researchers and students of  demography, social statistics, medical sociologists, family  and childhood studies, human geographers, sociology of  culture, social and public policy.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1445750},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91611-4},
}