The changing demographic landscape which Europe is facing today and in the next decades reflects the past. These changes constitute important challenges to European populations and societies. Shifts in fertility and family formation, in health, morbidity and mortality, in internal and international migration as well as changes in age structures, in households, in labour forces, and in population growth and decline, will influence the living conditions and well-being of Europe's population directly or indirectly. The demographic challenge also concerns the environment, local, regional and national developments, education, production and consumption patterns, economic competitiveness, social security, housing, employment and transport, and health and social care provisions. These issues, their mechanisms, determinants and consequences also challenge the scientific study of population. As a major forum and 'market place' for scientific demographic debate, the 1999 European Population Conference (EPC99) was organized to take up this challenge. On the threshold of the third millennium, European populations are united in diversity and face major demographic issues.
Editors and Affiliations
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dirk Kaa
Institut National d’Études Démographiques, Paris, France
Henri Leridon
Istituto di Recerche sulla Popolazione (Institute for Population Research), Rome, Italy
Giuseppe Gesano
Centre of Migration Research, Warsaw, Poland
Marek Okólski
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: European Populations
Book Subtitle: Unity in Diversity
Editors: Dirk Kaa, Henri Leridon, Giuseppe Gesano, Marek Okólski
