Population - The long view

This special issue of Population Studies is the outcome of invitations to a number of scholars in demographic and related sciences to contribute to an exploration of large-scale, long-term, interdisciplinary population problems. In planning the issue, the editors hoped to help put the ‘population’ back into ‘population studies’. They were concerned that the population dimension had become hidden in recent demographic research, which has mostly become focused on micro-level analyses that often do not adequately engage with the relevance of the ‘micro’ for the ‘macro’ level of population behaviour.