Population Geography

Tools and Issues

By (author) K. Bruce Newbold

Publication date:

19 December 2013

Length of book:

340 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781442220980

This compact and accessible text provides a comprehensive, issue-oriented introduction to population geography. After grounding students in the fundamentals, K. Bruce Newbold then explains the tools and techniques commonly used to describe and understand population concepts using real-world issues and events. Drawing on both US and international cases, he explores such pressing concerns as HIV/AIDS, international migration, fertility, mortality, resource scarcity, and conflict. Every chapter includes methods and focus sections, as well as study questions, to provide a more in-depth discussion of the ideas and concepts developed in the book. In addition, a wide array of maps, tables, and figures illustrates and enhances the cases. Newbold 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 field.

Population Geography: An Introduction
Chapter 1: World Population
Chapter 2: Population Data
Chapter 3: Population Distribution and Composition
Chapter 4: Fertility
Chapter 5: Mortality
Chapter 6: Internal Migration
Chapter 7: International Migration Flows: Immigrants and Transnational Migrants
Chapter 8: Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
Chapter 9: Urbanization
Chapter 10: Population Policies
Chapter 11: Population Growth: Linking to Economic Development, Resource Scarcity, and Food Security
Conclusion: Doing Population Geography

Globalization is changing the way in which populations are studied. Bruce Newbold's timely book teaches how geographic principles and techniques are used to measure and understand the changing nature of populations around the world. The chapters are cutting-edge, and the in-depth focus and methods and measures at the end of each chapter make this a very interesting and all-inclusive textbook for graduate and undergraduate students. It's also a great resource for cross-disciplinary researchers and professionals who want to understand and apply population geography in their work today.