The new New Zealand : facing demographic disruption /
Spoonley, Paul
The new New Zealand : facing demographic disruption / Paul Spoonley. - 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-267) and index.
Preface -- A reshaped society -- Understanding demography -- Modern families -- Where have all the babies gone? -- 'Here we come' -- The New Zealand diaspora -- The Rise, or Fall, of Regions -- Supercity -- When I'm 64 -- 'OK Boomer' -- What next? -- Twelve : a 'new' New Zealand.
In this timely book, New Zealand's best-known commentator on population trends, Distinguished Professor Paul Spoonley, shows how, as New Zealand moves into the 2020s, the demographic dividends of the last 70 years are turning into deficits. Our population patterns have been disrupted. More boomers, fewer children, an ever bigger Auckland and declining regions are the new normal. We will need new economic models, new ways of living. Spoonley says: 'It is not a crisis (even if at times it feels like it), but rather something that needs to be understood and responded to. But I fear that policy-makers and politicians are not up to the challenge. That would be a crisis.'
9780995122987 0995122989
2020438275
Population geography--New Zealand
New Zealand--Population
New Zealand--Social conditions
The new New Zealand : facing demographic disruption / Paul Spoonley. - 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-267) and index.
Preface -- A reshaped society -- Understanding demography -- Modern families -- Where have all the babies gone? -- 'Here we come' -- The New Zealand diaspora -- The Rise, or Fall, of Regions -- Supercity -- When I'm 64 -- 'OK Boomer' -- What next? -- Twelve : a 'new' New Zealand.
In this timely book, New Zealand's best-known commentator on population trends, Distinguished Professor Paul Spoonley, shows how, as New Zealand moves into the 2020s, the demographic dividends of the last 70 years are turning into deficits. Our population patterns have been disrupted. More boomers, fewer children, an ever bigger Auckland and declining regions are the new normal. We will need new economic models, new ways of living. Spoonley says: 'It is not a crisis (even if at times it feels like it), but rather something that needs to be understood and responded to. But I fear that policy-makers and politicians are not up to the challenge. That would be a crisis.'
9780995122987 0995122989
2020438275
Population geography--New Zealand
New Zealand--Population
New Zealand--Social conditions