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This compact and accessible core text offers a comprehensive, issue-oriented introduction to population geography. Providing a set of functional tools and techniques for studying population geography, K. Bruce Newbold explores real-world issues such as fertility, mortality, and immigration. He highlights the geographical perspective_with its ability to provide powerful insights and bridge disparate issues_by emphasizing the role of space and place, location, regional differences, and diffusion. 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 fundamentals of the field.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Population Geography: An Introduction Chapter 2 World Population Chapter 3 Population Data Chapter 4 Population Distribution and Composition Chapter 5 Fertility Chapter 6 Mortality Chapter 7 Internal Migration Chapter 8 International Migration Flows: Immigrants and Transnational Migrants Chapter 9 Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons Chapter 10 Urbanization Chapter 11 Population Policies Chapter 12 Population Growth: Linking to Economic Development, Resource Scarcity, and Food Security Chapter 13 Conclusion: Doing Population Geography Chapter 14 Glossary Chapter 15 List of Websites
About the author
K. Bruce Newbold is professor in the School of Geography & Earth Sciences and director of the McMaster Institute for Environment & Health at McMaster University.
