Abstract
Current demographic developments in the Netherlands and Australia —in particular, the trend toward older age structures and the persistence of low fertility levels— offer these countries both the opportunity and the incentive to achieve more optimal demographic conditions and a more ecologically sustainable environment. They also offer them the opportunity and incentive to achieve more ’supportive’ conditions for their populations with respect to both the natural environment and the built environment.
Hofstee Fellows at the NIDI from May to September 1994. This International Research Fellowship in Population Studies is established by the NIDI, under the auspices o the Social science Council of the royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, in memory of the first NIDI Board Chairman, Prof. dr E. W. Hofstee. This article presents the 1994 Hofstee Lecture as jointly presented by the authors in Amsterdam on June 13, 1994. The authors want to express their appreciation fot being invited to be Hofstee Fellows and for the opportunity the fellowship has given them to share ideas with the staff of the NIDI and to participate in the institute’s scientific work. See for the full lecture Day and Day (1994)
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Day, A.T., Day, L.H. (1996). ’The Lay of Its Land’; Ageing, Environment, and Social Changes in Australia and the Netherlands. In: van den Brekel, H., Deven, F. (eds) Population and Family in the Low Countries 1995. European Studies of Population, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1641-8_4
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