DEMO8002
Population Policy and Planning
Not offered in 2009
Co-ordinator – Prof Terence Hull
6 units
Not offered in 2009
Prerequisite: DEMO8024 Population and Society or exposure to the social sciences and basic demographic concepts at an equivalent level.
Note: students not enrolled in the Master of Social Research or the Graduate Certificate in Social Research require permission of the Masters Coordinator, Dr Robert Ackland, to enrol in this course. Please contact him on adsri.study@anu.edu.au.
Population policy, a subset of public policy, is concerned with envisioning and assessing alternative demographic futures. The implementation of policy requires the modification of demographic processes to achieve more desirable social outcomes. Population planning, a subset of social, economic, or environmental planning, is often used in the implementation and evaluation of population policies. This unit will explore the rationale, design, efficacy, politics, and ethics of population policies, and discuss selected issues of population planning. Fertility and migration will be the main demographic processes of interest, though some attention will also be paid to mortality issues such as HIV/AIDS and prevention of pandemics. The material covered will refer to both developed and developing countries, where feasible treating generic issues that span both. The unit aims to provide a theoretical and comparative basis for critical analysis of population policy and familiarity with past and present political debates on policy issues.
