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Environmental Effects on Family Size Preferences and Subsequent Reproductive Behavior in Nepal
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2005-01)
This study investigates the relationship between environmental degradation and men and women’s family size preferences and subsequent reproductive behaviors in Nepal. We draw on unique environmental data at the local level, ...
Behavioral Mechanisms in HIV Epidemiology and Prevention: Past, Present, and Future Roles
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2009-09)
Ecological demography: A synthetic focus in evolutionary anthropology
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1993)
The interests of evolutionary anthropologists, behavioral ecologists, and demographers converge on the ecology of human fertility. Ecological conditions influence the optimum pattern of maternal effort. Patterns of abortion, ...
The Impact of Community Context on Land Use in an Agricultural Society
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-01)
As an initial step toward new models of the population-environment relationship, this paper explores the relationship between community context and local land use in an agricultural setting. In this type of setting, we ...
The disablement process
(Elsevier, 1994-01)
Building on prior conceptual schemes, this article presents a sociomedical model of disability, called The Disablement Process, that is especially useful for epidemiological and clinical research. The Disablement Process: ...