Population Geography
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Population Geography

Pergamon Oxford Geographies

  1. 188 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Population Geography

Pergamon Oxford Geographies

About this book

Population Geography, Second Edition focuses on the relationships between population distribution and environment. This book aims to introduce population study, explain the geographical approach, and suggest a frame on which to hang regional studies of population.This edition begins by defining population geography, followed by a discussion on the types and problems of data and world distribution of population. The measures of population density and distribution, urban and rural populations, patterns of fertility and mortality, and migrations are elaborated. The patterns of population composition that includes age-structure, sex-composition, marital status, families and households, economic composition, nationality, language, religion, and ethnic composition are also considered. This text concludes with a discussion on population growth and resources.This publication is intended as an introduction to population study for geographers.

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Information

Publisher
Pergamon
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780080168531
eBook ISBN
9781483161402

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Population Geography
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  6. PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
  7. PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
  8. CHAPTER I. WHAT IS POPULATION GEOGRAPHY ?
  9. CHAPTER II. TYPES AND PROBLEMS OF DATA
  10. CHAPTER III. WORLD DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION
  11. CHAPTER IV. MEASURES OF POPULATION DENSITY AND DISTRIBUTION
  12. CHAPTER V. URBAN AND RURAL POPULATIONS
  13. CHAPTER VI. PATTERNS OF POPULATION COMPOSITION
  14. CHAPTER VII. PATTERNS OF FERTILITY
  15. CHAPTER VIII. PATTERNS OF MORTALITY
  16. CHAPTER IX. MIGRATIONS
  17. CHAPTER X. POPULATION GROWTH
  18. CHAPTER XI. POPULATION AND RESOURCES
  19. INDEX