From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Mon Aug  1 12:13:37 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Mon Aug  1 14:15:47 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]REV: Gottlieb et al's "The Next Los Angeles" / Vale and
 Campanella's "The Resilient City"
Message-ID: <1122920017.42ee665120d7f@webmail.sfsu.edu>

On H-Net:

Nathan Landau, reviewing:

Robert Gottlieb, Mark Vallianatos, Regina Freer, and Peter Dreier. The Next Los
Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2005. x + 279 pp. Photographs, notes, index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-5202-3999-7; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 0-5202-4000-6.

http://tinyurl.com/c67jm

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Andrew Herscher, reviewing:

Lawrence J. Vale and Thomas J. Campanella, eds. The Resilient City: How Modern
Cities Recover from Disaster. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xiv + 376
pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-1951-7583-2.

http://tinyurl.com/96osv

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Aug  2 14:26:05 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Aug  2 13:29:06 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Tsantsa special issue: Anthropology of Poverty
Message-ID: <004701c59787$474ec190$03e0a5ac@toshibauser>


Call for Papers
Tsantsa: Dossier 11
- Articles libres - Recherches en cours - Call for Pictures - Compte-rendu

Tsantsa, annual journal of the Swiss Ethnological Society, will publish a
special issue on the anthropology of poverty in the fall of 2006. Tsantsa is
an anonymous peer-review journal.

Anthropological studies of poverty: definitions, systems, interactions and
the question of reciprocity

How is poverty defined, both by the people who live it and by those who
attempt to eradicate it?  What are the relations between what we call "emic"
definitions of poverty and the critical perspective that anthropologists are
supposed to adopt?  What are the implicit logics of categorization that we
can observe inscribed within systems of assistance and welfare provision?
How do those responsible for welfare programs formulate the difference
between poverty and precariousness?  And anthropologists?  And how do these
different sets of social actors handle such notions as "the poverty
threshold", "fundamental needs", "the living wage", "vulnerability", etc?
As for researchers, to what definitions of social "exclusion" and
"integration" do their analyses of people in poverty lead them?

This Call for Papers seeks field based analyses in Euro-American or ?
exotic ? settings that document both the State-based systems of welfare
provision (public assistance, public health programs, job-training and
workfare programs) and non- or para-State systems of aide (associations,
charitable organizations, solidarity networks and North-South linkages).  We
will be particularly interested in tracing the ways in which welfare and
public assistance programs are currently being transformed through a
rhetoric of ? participation ? in which givers and receivers of assistance
are thought of in terms of reciprocity and ? responsbilisation ?.  What
kinds of relationships between State social workers and aide beneficiaries
ensue; what forms of resistance, control and negotiations develop?
Questions of inequality and power relations are clearly central to this
inquiry.


Interested constributors should send r?sum?s of 5000 bytes (2 pp.) and a
short biographical note by September 30 2005, to:
webmaster@seg-sse.ch (mention: Tsantsa 11 / call for papers poverty).
Accepted articles will be due on February 15 2006.

For more information about Tsantsa and the Swiss Ethnological Society,
please visit our website at
http://www.seg-sse.ch





From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Aug 10 11:28:34 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Aug 10 10:32:23 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: 7th Postgraduate Conference: Inclusion/Exclusion
Message-ID: <028401c59db7$e84f3c10$5e6c9aac@toshibauser>

7th Postgraduate Conference: Inclusion/Exclusion

http://www.ssees.ucl.ac.uk/pgconf06.htm

London, 16-18th February 2006

The boundary changes that have occurred in Central and Eastern Europe over
the past two hundred years have been far greater than any that have taken
place in Western Europe during the same period. This conference seeks to
address the issues of inclusion and exclusion that have arisen from these
boundary changes. The boundaries of Central and Eastern Europe have been
constantly contested from within and without and continue to shift and
evolve in the wake of the fall of communism. This perpetual change is
reflected through the redefinitions and realignments of identities within
the region. The challenge of the expansion of the European Union in the new
century represents a key factor in the ongoing processes of regional
realignment. Every aspect of identity within the new members, the *old* EU
countries, the candidate states, as well as the regions excluded from the
process has to be reasserted in the face of these dynamics.

At the heart of this evolving process of redefinition or reassertion lie the
notions of *exclusion* and *inclusion*. These concepts inform current
debates at all levels of European society, from the attempted spread of
democracy beyond the old borders, to the exclusion of minority groups from
mainstream economic, political and social activity or the place of minority
languages in the new enlarged Europe. The lingua franca imposed by
information technology threatens to exclude those who do not have at least a
passive knowledge of English. This may also contribute to a new barrier
between the old, once influential intellectuals of the region and young
cosmopolitan intellectuals. The re-evaluation of history, especially that of
the twentieth century, may also have a destabilising impact on the old
narratives and intellectual certainties that have shaped our understanding
of Central and Eastern Europe.

This conference is inviting young academics to submit papers that discuss
current phenomena of inclusion and exclusion in the countries and regions of
Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, including but not
limited to the following themes:
Historical: Pre-communist, Communist-led and Post-communist Nationalisms,
Ethnic Cleansing from the Middle Ages onwards, Jewish Emancipation, Women's
Education, Women before, during and after Communism, Fascist and Communist
Politics of Exclusion.

Cultural: Purism, Lexical Cleansing, Rewriting History, Fine and Performance
Art, Popular Culture, Media, Boundary Reshuffling and Canon Redefinition,
The Impact of Poststructuralist/ Postmodern Thought, National Revival,
National Collapse, Religion.
Political: Power Relations and Agency, New Feminisms in Central and Eastern
Europe, Migration, Political Exclusion, Security, Democratic Transformation,
Integration and Hard Border Regimes.

Economic: Health, Welfare and Inequality, Human Capital and the Knowledge
Economy, Corruption and Informal Practices, Economic Growth and Development,
Business and Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance.

Social: Insiders and Outsiders in Historical Context, Minority Relations,
Gender Discrimination, Poverty, Citizenship, Health and Education Reforms,
Social Exclusion, The New Middle Class, Traditional Classes - Peasantry,
Intelligentsia and Workers.

We strongly encourage cross-cultural, cross-national and multi-disciplinary
perspectives, with entries on new research methodologies welcomed.

The Committee invites post-doctoral and graduate students in the Humanities
and Social Sciences to submit original research papers for discussion.
Invitation is not limited to academics; we would also like to invite
professionals with sound academic backgrounds and academic interests.


Paper abstracts of up to 500 words and a curriculum vitae should be sent
with full contact details (E-mail, Telephone, Postal Address) to
pgconference@ssees.ucl.ac.uk and/or to 7th Postgraduate Conference, School
of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, Senate
House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU, UK.

Presented papers should not exceed 20 minutes in length, and must be in
English. The Conference will provide online training in paper presentation
(live 1st November 2005). A selection of the best papers will appear in a
separate Conference publication.

Deadline for submission of abstracts:
31st August 2005

Senior Academic Advisers: Christopher J. Gerry, Geoffrey A. Hosking, George
Kolankiewicz, Alena Ledeneva, Robert Pynsent, Martyn Rady


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Aug 13 23:17:29 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Aug 13 22:21:18 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Undocumented and documented migration within Europe
Message-ID: <005701c5a076$5881bdd0$a78aa8ac@toshibauser>

Call for Papers

UNDOCUMENTED AND DOCUMENTED MIGRATION WITHIN EUROPE

financed by Volkswagen Foundation taking place at the University of Dortmund from Friday the 13th to Sunday the 15th of January 2006.

Particular reference is given to migration between eastern European and western European countries regarding the occupation areas of reproductive work, agricultural work and the service sector. 

Please feel free to pass on the 'Call for Papers' to colleges working in the field of migration studies (sociology, history, social anthropology, demographic studies, economy). 

With best regards

Dr. A. S. M?nst    Prof. Dr. S. Metz-G?ckel                                                             

 
Dr. A. S. M?nst 
Universit?t Dortmund 
Interdisziplin?rer Forschungsschwerpunkt: 
Dynamik der Geschlechterkonstellationen 
Emil-Figge-Str. 50 (Raum 0.110) 

44227 Dortmund 

Tel.: (0049) 0231 - 755 45 92  

SMuenst@fb12.uni-dortmund.de 

Volkswagen Foundation

Project: Borders - Leeways. Migration of Polish Women to the Ruhr Area
Call for Papers for the Conference on

UNDOCUMENTED AND DOCUMENTED MIGRATION WITHIN EUROPE
Friday the 13th to Sunday the 15th of January 2006

The conference is aimed to look at undocumented and documented migration within
Europe. Particular reference is given to migration between eastern European and
western European countries and the occupation areas of reproductive work,
agricultural work and service sector.

We like to consider three perspectives and their interrelatedness:
The perspective on the micro level concerns the migrant's household unit, its
relevance in decision making processes, the changes it goes through e.g. number of
household locations and people involved, changes in role performances, duties and
status; economic and living conditions of the pluri-local household unit.

The perspective on the meso level concerns the migrant's (transnational) network its
qualitative and functional aspects in different stages of migration, e.g. spatial extend,
number and ethnical background of people involved, frequency and quality of (exchange)
relations; tasks performed by network members; changing status positions
in the network. We also like to include here informal organisations, which compensate
the lack of (personal) networks by offering jobs and housing in return to payment
and therefore establish shadow-economy-structures.

The perspective on the macro level concerns structures of societies of countries
involved, how do they provoke and are effected by (documented and undocumented)
migration. This includes processes in regard to economy (e.g. international division of
labour, globalisation, income differences), welfare systems, social mobility.
Finally we also invite papers dealing with particular methodological and
epistemological issues of migration studies e.g. multi sited research, intercultural
research and research with people living partially clandestine lives.
Abstract submission: Electronic abstracts of between 400-500 words should be
submitted by the 1st of October 2005 to:

SMuenst@fb12.uni-dortmund.de Sigrid.Metz-Goeckel@uni-dortmund.de

doszka@argo.hist.uj.edu.pl

Abstract authors will be notified of paper acceptance by the 21st of November 2005.
The conference is organised by a joint research project of the University of Dortmund
and the Jagiellonian University Krak?w (Dr. Dobrochna Kalwa) and part of the
Interdisciplinary Research Program at the University of Dortmund: Dynamics of

Gender Configuration.

Speakers will be offered free accommodation and travel expenses.
Prof. Dr. Sigrid Metz-G?ckel Dr. A. Senganata M?nst Dr. Dobrochna Kalwa


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Aug 13 23:22:31 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Aug 13 22:26:07 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: 2006 SfAA Meetings, "World on the Edge"
Message-ID: <000b01c5a077$0ae5ec80$a78aa8ac@toshibauser>

Call for Papers: "World on the Edge"
65th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology
Meeting Dates: 03/28/2006 - 04/02/2006

The 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology will convene
in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, March 28-April 2, 2006. The meeting
theme -- "World on the Edge" -- is particularly appropriate, given
Vancouver's geographic location and cultural diversity. The city is at the
edge of North America and serves as the dominant gateway to the Pan-Pacific
Region. As such, it provides a real as well as a metaphorical platform for
assessing the central forces that are shaping our world -- globalization,
multiculturalism, boundaries and borderlands, population migration, and
development. Vancouver has served as a crossroads for diverse ethnic groups,
from the peoples of the First Nations to its most recent Asian immigrants.
The cultural richness of British Columbia rests in part on a national
tradition of tolerance and public policy that emphasizes cultural and ethnic
pluralism. The 65th Annual Meeting invites papers to explore how these
forces push populations to "the edge" -- of their environment, their
culture, their political autonomy. We seek to understand more precisely how
culture and identity may be maintained in multicultural settings. We want to
learn more about the tools people employ to preserve family structures,
health, and nutritional behaviors, as people cross boundaries and leave
traditional homelands.

Contact Information:
Orit Tamir
PO Box 2436
Oklahoma City OK 73101 USA
Phone: 405-843-5113
Email: info@sfaa.net
URL http://http://www.sfaa.net/sfaa2006.html


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Aug 13 23:27:40 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Aug 13 22:31:19 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: SSRC International Dissertation Field Research
	Fellowship 
Message-ID: <001301c5a077$c1f66530$a78aa8ac@toshibauser>

2006 International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship
Deadline:  November 10, 2005
Fellowship Amount: $20,000.00

 The Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned
Societies are pleased to announce the 2006 competition of the International
Dissertation Field Research Fellowship (IDRF) program, which is designed to
support distinguished graduate students in the humanities & social sciences
conducting dissertation field research in all areas & regions of the world.
Fifty fellowships of approximately $20,000 will be awarded in 2006 with
funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The IDRF Program is
committed to scholarship that advances knowledge about cultures, societies,
aesthetics, economics and/or polities outside the United States. The program
promotes work that is relevant to a particular discipline while resonating
across other fields & area specializations. The program is open to full-time
graduate students in the humanities and social sciences - regardless of
citizenship - enrolled in doctoral programs in the United States. Applicants
must have completed all Ph.D. requirements except fieldwork and dissertation
by the time the fellowship begins or by December 2006, whichever comes
first. Fellowships will provide support for nine to twelve months in the
field, plus travel expenses. The fellowship must be held for a single
continuous period within the eighteen months between July 2006 and December
2007. Applications for the IDRF program must be submitted electronically
using the SSRC's Online Application Portal.

Eligibility Requirements: The International Dissertation Field Research
Fellowship (IDRF) program supports full-time graduate students in the
humanities and social sciences, enrolled in doctoral programs in the United
States, conducting dissertation field research in all areas and regions of
the world. Applicants must have completed all Ph.D. requirements except
fieldwork and dissertation by the time the fellowship begins or by December
2006, whichever comes first.

 Contact Information
IDRF Program
810 Seventh Avenue
31st Floor
New York NY 10019 USA
Phone: 212-377-2700
Email: idrf@ssrc.org
URL http://www.ssrc.org/programs/idrf


From veronius at rambler.ru  Mon Aug 29 22:28:21 2005
From: veronius at rambler.ru (Veronica Usachyova)
Date: Tue Aug 30 00:41:07 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Seeking panelist for "Hierarchy and Power..."
Message-ID: <web-26422465@mail7.rambler.ru>


CFP: SEEKING PANELISTS FOR FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
?HIERARCHY AND POWER IN THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATIONS?
June 13-16, 2006, Moscow, Russia
http://www.civreg.ru/english/conf/hierarchy2006.html

If you are interested in participating in the panel below, please 
contact
Veronica Usacheva at veronuis@rambler.ru

MODERN MASS MEDIA AND PUBLIC SPHERE: New Challenges and Opportunities 
for Democracy

Globalization has created new challenges in information space. New 
models of communication have emerged. Their influence overcomes 
states? borders and, what is even more serious, they have a great 
potential and capabilities for destroying the basis and cultural 
values of a society. In the classical interpretation by Jurgen 
Habermas the ?public sphere? is the arena within which a debate 
occurs. It is the zone where access to information is sufficient for 
more probable rational discourse and looking for mutually acceptable 
public standards. The public sphere is where ideas, information and 
knowledge are shared, where ideas generated and opinions are 
constructed. Although real and experienced, the public sphere cannot 
be located in a particular place or identified as an object. It is not 
a physical spot where discourse has consequences. For Habermas, 
correctly functioning public sphere restricts state power and gives 
possibilities through which democracy could be realized. Ideally, the 
public sphere should be free from limitations, both private interests 
and state control. Nowadays the public sphere as a zone of modern 
discourse is distorted by unequal access to information, power and 
prosperity. What is the role of modern mass media in the public 
sphere's formation? What possibilities do they offer citizens to seek, 
receive, and impart information? How do mass media provide equal 
access to them for different social groups and individuals? Is equal 
access possible in the modern world? During the 20th century the state 
became a serious player on the public sphere stage, being sometimes 
authoritarian or totalitarian monopolist. Information control can 
serve as a part and parcel of nation-building. At the same time, media 
manipulation can become a weapon of mass deconstruction. What kind of 
public sphere can exist in the situation of increasing influence of 
the state and economic interests on mass media? Where is the solution 
to overcome the elitist character of the public sphere? The progress 
of communications gives new opportunities for people to overcome 
limitations and deficiencies, even social norms and social control. 
The many point out that new mass media are revolutionizing the nature 
of discourse. The crucial question is: Do people receive now more 
information than before? Do we have more zones for public discourse, 
than before? Are there any new possibilities for broad and unlimited 
freedom of expression, including critical to authorities? The panel 
will cover both theoretical and empirical approaches to the mentioned 
above problems and encourages papers that deal with the following: 
public sphere / public sphericules; modern mass media in maintenance 
the institutions of civil societies and democracy; public discourses, 
their competition and hierarchical relations.

Paper proposals are due on November 1, 2005, and should be no more 
than 300 words in English, accompanied  by the information includes 
full name, title, institutional affiliation, full mail and e-mail 
addresses, and fax #. The working languages of the Conference are 
Russian and English.


Convenor: Dr. Veronica V. Usacheva (Department of Cultural 
Anthropology, Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies, Russian 
Academy of Sciences, 30/1 Spiridonovka st., 123001 Moscow, Russia; 
Tel.: + 7 095 291 4119; Fax: + 7 095 202 07 86; E-mails: 
veronius@mail.ru, veronius@rambler.ru)


PLEASE FORWARD TO INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS AND LISTS!


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Aug 30 01:50:45 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Aug 30 01:00:47 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: SANA's St. Claire Drake Student Travel Grants
	Award
Message-ID: <008001c5ad1f$063f72a0$9458acac@toshibauser>

From: Peter Lawson <pjlawson@hotmail.com>

AAA 2005: The St. Claire Drake Student Travel Grant Award
 The Society for the Anthropology of North America announces
 the St. Claire Drake Student Travel Grants Award
 for the 2005 AAA Meetings in Washington, D.C. (November 30-December 4)

To apply, submit your paper abstract, university affiliation, and contact
information to sanatravelgrant@yahoo.com by October 21, 2005.  The student
travel grant will be awarded on a competitive basis and reviewed by a
committee comprised of members from the SANA board.

 . This travel grant is intended for currently enrolled graduate students
without a PhD. Only students who are presenting at the conference will be
considered for the award.
. Papers should relate to the study of North America and-in keeping with the
work of the award's namesake, St. Claire Drake-preferably address social
justice issues such as those pertaining to "race," ethnicity, class, gender,
sexuality, etc.  Priority will be given to those that address Mexico, the
United States, and Canada.
 . Preference will go to those students who have previously applied for the
SANA travel grant and have not yet received one.
 . The total dollar amount allocated to travel grants is limited; therefore,
the number and dollar amount of grants awarded depends on the number of
applicants and their travel needs.
 . Travel grants will not be awarded to any individual two years in a row.
 .  Drake fellows may be asked to assist SANA by helping pass out
informational flyers at sessions or contributing to its newsletter.
 . SANA is an intentionally inclusive community of anthropologists and
encourages every student to apply for the St. Claire Drake award regardless
of society's labels or anthropology's disciplinary boundaries.  Although it
is not necessary for applicants to be members of SANA, recipients of the
award are expected to join SANA.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Aug 31 15:04:57 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Aug 31 14:11:35 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CONF: The Architecture of Archaeology and the Archaeology of Architecture
Message-ID: <014001c5ae56$91484420$d3fc91ac@toshibauser>

From: Alessandro Camiz <alessandro.camiz@uniroma1.it>

Conference
The Architecture of Archaeology and the Archaeology of Architecture
Rome, Italy, September 15 -17, 2005

The objective of this conference is to provide a forum for a dialogue 
on architecture and archaeology, and the numerous ways in which the 
two fields intersect. Of interest are archaeological sites with 
significant architectural artifacts, as well as, the collaborative 
work between architects, archaeologists, urbanists, historians, and 
museologists in the preservation, restoration, and reconstruction of 
these sites.

The conference takes place in Rome, Italy from September 15 to 
September 17, 2005 at the British School at Rome and the Facolta Di 
Architettura, "Valle Giulia," Universita Degli Studi Di Roma, "La 
Sapienza."

This conference is held in concert with the Third International 
Workshop/Seminar "Premio Piranesi" for Villa Adriana, Tivoli and Rome.

See: www.premiopiranesi.net

Conference Organizer: Dr. Diane Archibald

Hosted by the British School at Rome and the Facolta Di Architettura, 
"Valle Giulia" Universita Degli Studi Di Roma, "La Sapienza" with the 
Patronage of the Canadian Embassy, Rome

The full program and other details can be viewed at:
http://www.bsr.ac.uk/ENG/sub_news/BSR_News_lectures_2005Sep.htm

Contact:
Dr. Diane Archibald PhD, FBSR
British School at Rome
Via Gramsci 61
00197 Roma
Italia
diane@alfanet.it

Alessandro Camiz
University of Rome "La Sapienza"
email: alessandro.camiz@uniroma1.it
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Aug 31 15:20:56 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Aug 31 14:28:05 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: World Population Heading Rapidly Toward 7 Billion
Message-ID: <01c101c5ae58$c3efb9b0$d3fc91ac@toshibauser>

WORLD POPULATION HEADING RAPIDLY TOWARD 7 BILLION

Group Ensures Global Population Growth
- By HARRY DUNPHY, Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, August 23, 2005

(08-23) 12:49 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --
Global population growth is ensured for many decades, with most of it in
developing countries, a private group said Tuesday.
The rapid growth in developing countries, combined with declining birth
rates in some industrialized nations could affect the ability of the wealthy
to aid the poor, said a demographer who prepared the group's report.
"The countries of today's developing world are growing almost three times
faster than the developed countries," said Carl Haub, a demographer for the
Population Reference Bureau, a private research group. "The global
population growth today has concentrated in the poorest countries and the
poorest areas of those countries.
"Almost 99 percent of population growth today and for the foreseeable future
will be in those developing countries," he said. "There has been a complete
shift in population growth."
The bureau's study found that in many industrialized countries and in some
developing countries such as China and Thailand, average fertility is below
the two-child average.
"Because these low fertility levels lead to population decline sooner or
later, some reports have sounded alarm about the possibility of a worldwide
'birth dearth,'" the report said.
However, the majority of the world's countries have a fertility rate above
the two child level, the study said, and have large numbers of women of
reproductive age due to high fertility in the past.
Haub said the decline in the birth rate in some industrialized countries
could put them "in less of a position to help developing countries. These
are countries that traditionally have been quite generous in terms of
foreign aid."
The report said the complex and unpredictable nature of fertility rates have
dramatic effects on population size, making the issue the subject of much
debate because national and international health, economic and other
policies and programs may be based on population size.
In a recent analysis of survey data between 1990 and 2003 in developing
countries, demographer John Bongaarts of the Population Council, an
international nonprofit research organization, found that some nations had
not yet experienced fertility decline while others had "stalled" in their
transition from high fertility rates to low fertility rates, the report
said.
The study said use of modern contraceptives is more common among wealthy
women than poor women in nearly all countries and the gap is particularly
pronounced in the poorest countries, in places as diverse as Uganda and
Nepal.
World population growth will continue, the study said, reaching 6.5 billion
in 2005 and going to 7 billion in about seven years. Of that growth, 99
percent will be in developing countries.
The United States is projected to remain the third most populous nation
behind India and China through 2050, with population increasing from 296
million to 420 million, the report said. While China has the world's largest
population in 2005 at 1.3 billion, India, now No. 2, will overtake China by
2050 with 1.6 billion.
Other highlights of the study:
_Africa's infant mortality rate is nearly 15 times that of the more
developed world.
_The more developed world uses more than five times the energy per capita
than the less developed world.
_People in North America use more than eight times as much energy as people
in Latin America.
_Nearly one-third of rural residents worldwide lack access to safe drinking
water.
___
Associated Press Writer Will Lester contributed to this story.
On the Net:
Population Reference Bureau:
www.prb.org

URL:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/08/23/national/a124939D
37.DTL


