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This book explores the issues of overpopulation and the resulting depletion of natural resources. The main focus is on the impact that developments in one part of the world have upon people's lifestyles, and the forms of inequality dictated by the relationship between rich and poor countries.The study of wilderness and the notion of empty space are used to introduce questions of national resources, sustainability, and ecology.Sustainability provides the framework for discussion of population change, mortality and fertility and the questions of energy resources and environmental degradation. An Overcrowded World demonstrates how uneven development worsens ecological problems in certain areas and prevents a unified global response. ... Read more

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Contemporary Case Studies feature up-to-date case studies on key topics in AS and A2 Geography. Written by highly experienced authors, examiners and teachers, each title opens with an introductory framework that identifies the relevant key concepts and then follows with a series of short cases that include succinct analysis of the issues raised. In the Using case studies boxes, specific questions are posed and examiner guidance is provided on how the material can be used to tackle them; exercises based on one or more of the case studies are also included. The concluding section provides more detailed advice on making the most of the case studies in the examination. ... Read more

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Six Billion Plus explores world population growth and its implications for the twenty-first century. With a population currently exceeding six billion and expected to reach ten billion by mid-century, the world's demographic situation is more critical than ever, by almost any measure. While the developed world faces its own problems with an aging population and population decline, most of the growth will occur in the developing world. And so the strongest factors shaping the global environment in the decades to come will include population fertility, social and economic impacts of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, legal and illegal immigration, and refugees. The implications are enormous; population growth exacerbates food and resource scarcities, places pressure on institutions, and promotes the potential for conflict. Drawing on a geographical perspective and using examples from around the world, this compact, illustrated, and accessible text is ideal for population courses in geography as well as in areas such as economics, sociology, and politics. ... Read more

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Decent text, but over emphasizes biases
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This is a textbook on demography (a.k.a. population geography).The book covers the major topics in the field, including birth, death, population growth, etc.

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This was the textbook used in a course on demography I recently completed.The main criticism I have of the book is two-part: (1) It spends a lot of time talking about how bad population growth is. (2) In talking so much about population growth, the book wastes time that could be spent explaining common demographic techniques.

1. Though I agree that population growth is a problem for the entire world, I was surprised at the degree to which this was the focus of the text.Yes, I understand, this is a book about populations, but almost the entire book decries population growth.There is also very little discussion of counter-perspectives (why population growth would be a good thing).Essentially, the text begins with the perspective that population growth is bad, "As a species, we have certainly demonstrated our capacity for successful reproduction but it may well be time for us to restrain ourselves before we find a way to destroy our own ecological niche (though not the world-it could get along quite well without us, as it did for most of its history)" (p. 6), and continues this motif throughout, "a reminder that political economy, not food supply limitations, result in a current world in which perhaps 800 million people have either nutritionally inadequate diets or not enough food to eat. Hunger amidst plenty still exists, and it will so long as grinding poverty leaves millions unable to purchase enough food for their needs, even if it is readily available" (p. 336).Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with textbook authors and scientists having opinions on issues, but I think the focus on the issues in this text was so extensive that it resulted in a failure to adequately explain the methodology used at arriving at these conclusions.

2. Thankfully my instructor spent a good deal of time explaining the methodology of demography.Frankly, I think it is important to know the difference between a crude birth rate and a total fertility rate and why both measures are important when trying to demographically describe a population.The text limits this discussion to about 2 pages.That really isn't adequate.

Overall, I think this text is alarming.The basic argument is that the world is currently experiencing a population explosion that may result in eventual devastation when the population exceeds the available food supply.Just because populations in developed countries aren't growing rapidly - the U.S. being the exception - doesn't mean populations in undeveloped countries are not; they are, and at an incredible pace.The authors argue that we can either take steps now to prevent the famines and scarcity that will ultimately result from population increase, killing millions in the process, and work toward a more stable and sustainable population, or we can wait for the cookie to crumble, as it inevitably must, and experience the suffering.Though I agree this is a pressing issue, I wish the authors would have spent more time discussing the methodologies and theories of demography rather than their particular perspectives on the foreboding doom.Yes, it's inevitable.Yes, current U.S. government administrations are doing nothing to prevent and, in fact, are exacerbating the problem.And, perhaps, spending the entire text talking about this is the only way for people to finally realize that there is a problem.But for those of us that recognize it as a problem, it would be nice to know how to replicate demographic studies and do some of the analysis ourselves. ... Read more

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In the first analytical study of where the American upper-class lives and vacations, Stephen R. Higley explores the ways in which upper-class residential places are created and maintained. Drawing on the "Social Register" as a main source of data, Higley examines the intersection of class, status, and geography, and demonstrates the ways in which physical proximity solidifies upper-class consciousness. ... Read more

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ill-informed drivel
It is astonishing that this author is even able to hold pen to paper.The so-called universities from which he received his degrees need to have their charters yanked for bestowing anything to this moron.Where he doesnt know or cannot find facts, he makes them up.This non-sense should be categorized under "fiction."Do not waste your money buying this book.Do not waste your time reading it.I trust the National Inquirer more than this idiot. I gave this book one star because there isn't a way to give it NEGATIVE stars

A rare look beyond the doormen and up the long driveways.
"Everybody has to be somewhere," and Higley has located thesocial upper class.The use of Social Register and Zip Code data is amethodological stratagem.It eliminates much of the confusion betweeneconomic mobility and the enduring role of the social class that requires more than money for membership.If you live within a hundred miles of acity, you will want to know who those people are in the elegant downtown apartment towers with doormen, and behind the walls and fences of themansions of the suburbs and exurbs. If you don't live within a hundredmiles of a city, then how in heaven's name did you get on-line? ... Read more

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This volume consists of three major sections on fertility, disease and mortality, and marriage and family, which together with five introductory chapters combine depth of analysis with breadth of source material. ... Read more

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These papers represent a series of important contributions on the history of urbanization. As well as offering a clear and instructive discussion of fundamental concepts, processes, and measurement problems, the introduction summarizes findings in the latest research and proposes new topics. The papers focus on four principal areas of contemporary research on urbanization: urban networks, town-country economic links, migration, and demographic patterns. New areas of analysis, such as the study of migration flows by age, gender, or social group, and the comparative east/west approach of several of these papers will serve to broaden the international scope of research and stimulate further work in this field. ... Read more

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Lincoln Day assesses the demographic situation, the likely policy alternatives, the significance of future changes in fertility and mortality rates and analyses the likely losses and gains attendant upon an ageing, dwindling people. ... Read more

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This is an exploration of the links between ethnicity and population processes in the context of nation-building. Each chapter focuses on a different part of the world where themes of ethnic-group formation and transformation, persistence and assimilation, demographic transitions and convergences, and the processes of political mobilization and economic development, are described, compared and analyzed. The areas discussed include South-East Asia, Africa, the Soviet republics, and Israel. ... Read more

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Recently, increased attention has been given to the social and environmental context in which criminal offending occurs. This new interest in the human ecology of crime is largely demographic, both in terms of subject matter and increasingly in terms of the analytic methods. Building on existing literature within the social ecology of crime, this study introduces a new approach to developing and examining sub-county geographies of reported crime through the use of existing census place and county definitions coupled with spatial demographic methods. This process of spatially decomposing counties into Census places and what Esselstyn (1953) earlier called 'open country,' or non-places, allows for the development of a unique, but phenomenologically appropriate sub-county geography. The new sub-county geography substantively holds meaning jurisdictionally given the current organization of the criminal justice system as well as demographically in the conceptualization of 'rural' and 'urban' in the demographic analysis of crime. Using 1990 and 2000 Agency-level Uniform Crime Report data in conjunction with recently developed spatial statistics, significant processes of spatial mobility in regards to the spread of criminal activity are identified. This represents an extension and adaptation of current and evolving methods used in identifying processes of the spatial diffusion of crime. ... Read more

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This book is concerned with natural and man-made disasters, and their immediate effects on the populations they afflict. It looks at epidemics, famines, war, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and tornadoes, as well as such man made disasters as Chernobyl, 3-Mile Island and Bhopal. Twenty-two demographers and geographers from all over the world present case studies and general articles on the causes, immediate impact and long term consequences of population catastrophes. The book as a whole focuses on the disasters in the twentieth century, particularly those that have taken place in the last twenty years. The authors examine the demographic consequences of such crises, in terms, for example, of their effect on morbidity, mortality, fertility and migration as well as their impact on social, economic and political structures. They are also concerned to assess the extent of human settlement in potentially hazardous areas (and to consider why people, even when knowing the likelihood of disaster, continue to occupy them) and to identify the range of human adjustments to extreme events.They examine the way in which people perceive and react to disasters, and consider the adjustments and choices people make to minimize the magnitude of disaster impact, as well as the effectiveness of official relief action upon the lives of disaster victims. "Population and Disaster" covers virtually every region of the world: developed, developing, capitalist and socialist, and with reference to both short-term and the long-term consequences. ... Read more

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In the 240 years from contact to the present, British Columbia's population has experienced transformations of a kind and magnitude witnessed nowhere else in North America. The introduction of exotic diseases changed the human landscape almost overnight, as did gold rushes, industrialization, two world wars, a baby boom, late 20th-century immigration from Asia, and a grey wave. Becoming British Columbia is the first comprehensive, demographic history of this province. Investigating critical moments in the demographic record and linking demographic patterns to larger social and political questions, it shows how biology, politics, and history conspire with sex, death, and migration to create a particular kind of society. ... Read more