By engaging with traditional quantitative perspectives and newer qualitative insights, the authors engage students from the quantitative macro scale of population to the micro individual scale.Aimed at higher-level undergraduate and ...
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... Further progress in understanding fertility trends requires continued analysis of spatial fertility patterns both to identify additional fertility- related variables, and to assess the role of general models of fertility change ...
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Using a wide range of case studies, contemporary examples and current research, the book links the rise and fall of the key concepts in population geography to the changing social and economic context and to geographys turn towards social ...
This text, dealing with particular themes in the field of human geography, provides a useful introduction to population geography.
This edition begins by defining population geography, followed by a discussion on the types and problems of data and world distribution of population.
These are followed by chapters on the impacts of age structures, including the potential for a demographic dividend, and of the more qualitative aspects of human resource development through formal education and ICTs, with further chapters ...
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Within population geography, there has been increasing concentration on population dynamics, and this text caters specifically for this exciting emphasis.
Arguing that an understanding of population is essential to prepare for the future, this cogent text will provide upper-division undergraduates with a thorough grasp of the field.