Population policy in modern world history: Challenges from the Asia Pacific

随着地球人口接近80亿，关于人口问题的国际辩论将再次被点燃。该项目旨在利用澳大利亚在全球南方的地位，以独特的区域视角来看待人口政策是如何产生的，以及它们目前的遗产是什么。比较澳大利亚、日本、印度和中国，该项目旨在分析高度多样化的政治，挑战欧洲对外关于现代化和发展的论点。这有望提供一个大大改进的历史模型，使我们能够更好地评估21世纪持续存在的人口-环境-经济关系。该项目将激发一种新的世界历史写作形式，提升澳大利亚作为大思想历史领导者的声誉。

As the planet approaches 8 billion, international debate on population will be ignited again. This project aims to capitalise on Australia’s place in the global South, to lead a distinctively regional perspective on how population policies emerged, and what their present legacies are. Comparing Australia, Japan, India and China, the project intends to analyse highly diverse polities, challenging Europe-outward theses on modernisation and development. This promises a much-improved historical model with which we might better assess the enduring population-environment-economy nexus well into the 21st century. The project should energise a new form of world history writing, boosting Australia's reputation as a leader in big-idea histories.