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The Impact of Population Change

Category: A-Level Geography

"People ... make up the 'human' of human geography. An appreciation of how and why population grows, how this growth is managed, why people sometimes move, either within their countries or across international boundaries, sometimes across the globe, is necessary to understand settlement, development, economic activities." (Introduction)

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Topics covered include:

Chapter 1: Natural population change; fertility and mortality; Malthus and Boserup; the Demographic Transition Model.

Chapter 2: Migration processes; mobility; measures; migration streams.

Chapter 3: The impact of migration; implications for service provision, economic activity and the physical environment; out-migration from Irish islands; in-migration to Delhi.

Chapter 4: Population policies for fertility and migration; economic, social, cultural and moral considerations; pro-natalist fertility policies in Singapore; anti-natalist fertility policies in Mauritius; immigration policies in Canada; transmigration policies in Indonesia.

The Author

Steve Royle, Senior Lecturer in Geography at Queen’s University, Belfast, studied geography at St John’s College, Cambridge and tool a PhD at Leicester. Formerly President of the Geographical Society of Ireland and the Geographical Association (Belfast branch), he serves on the (Irish) National Committee for Geography and the Council of British Geography.

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Sample Pages

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