Making Population Geography

by Adrian Bailey

Overview

Making Population Geography is a lively account of the intellectual history of population geography. Arguing that, while population geography may drift in and out of fashion, it must continue to supplement its demographic approach with a renewed emphasis on cultural and political accounts of compelling population topics, such as HIV-AIDS, sex trafficking, teen pregnancy, citizenship, geodemographics and global ageing, in order for it to shed light on contemporary society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780340762646
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/28/2005
Series:	Human Geography in the Making
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Adrian Bailey is Professor of Migration Studies at the University of Leeds, UK.

Table of Contents

Ecology and landscape
Spatial demography
Lifecourse
Social constructions
Place
Globalization
Geodemographics
Policy
New Challenges
The future

Editorial Reviews

This book provides an accessible understanding of how and why population geography has developed as it has, and convincingly demonstrates the relevance and need for the subject in the early part of the twenty-first century.

/Population, Space and Place

"Each chapter is clearly structured and contains useful illustrative material ... This book should be required reading for all undergraduates and school students, so that they might better understand some of the major processes at work that will profoundly affect their own lives in the coming decades, whether this is ageing populations, people trafficking, migration policies, emerging diseases, fertility control, resource pressure and so on."

/Geography

"Making Population Geography is well crafted for those interested in both gaining rapid exposure to depth and breadth of population geography research and receiving a very current assessment of the field's potential and import."

Samuel M. Otterstrom, The Professional Geographer, 60:1, 2008

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