
- 188 pages
- English
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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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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Population Geography
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
- PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
- CHAPTER I. WHAT IS POPULATION GEOGRAPHY ?
- CHAPTER II. TYPES AND PROBLEMS OF DATA
- CHAPTER III. WORLD DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION
- CHAPTER IV. MEASURES OF POPULATION DENSITY AND DISTRIBUTION
- CHAPTER V. URBAN AND RURAL POPULATIONS
- CHAPTER VI. PATTERNS OF POPULATION COMPOSITION
- CHAPTER VII. PATTERNS OF FERTILITY
- CHAPTER VIII. PATTERNS OF MORTALITY
- CHAPTER IX. MIGRATIONS
- CHAPTER X. POPULATION GROWTH
- CHAPTER XI. POPULATION AND RESOURCES
- INDEX