The More Developed Realm
A Geography of Its Population
Published on 6. June 2016
284 pages
978-1-4831-8185-1 (ISBN)
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The More Developed Realm
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- Front Cover
- The More Developed Realm: A Geography of its Population
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- NOTE
- CHAPTER 1. THE MORE DEVELOPED REALM
- Which Are the More Developed Countries?
- A Minority of Mankind
- Populations and Areas of the More Developed Countries
- Two Main Cultural Realms-European and Japanese
- Local Diversity
- Vital Rates and the Demographic Transition
- Demographic Structures
- Population Mobility
- Urbanization
- Rural Populations
- Population, Resources, and the Environment
- Population Policies
- References
- CHAPTER 2. EUROPE: A GEOGRAPHY OF ITS POPULATION, PAST AND RECENT
- Classical Populations
- Roman Europe
- The Medieval Period
- Late Medieval Population Growth
- Population Decline After 1340
- Modern Populations
- Western Europe in the Twentieth Century
- Conclusion
- References
- CHAPTER 3. EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE
- Introduction
- Population Change
- Vital Rates, Natural Increases, Total Growth
- Population Distribution and Density
- Internal Mobility
- Urban Population
- Age and Sex Structure
- Ethnic Diversity
- References
- CHAPTER 4. MEDITERRANEAN EUROPE
- The Present Settlement Pattern
- Italy
- Spain
- Portugal
- Greece
- References
- CHAPTER 5. USSR: POPULATION IN THE PAST AND ITS PRESENT DISTRIBUTION
- Introduction
- Population Growth and Redistribution in the Past
- Present Distribution of Total Population-Summary
- CHAPTER 6. USSR: CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PRESENT POPULATION
- Vital Rates and Age-Sex Structure
- Nationalities
- Education
- Occupation
- Population Mobility and Migration
- Rural-Urban Composition
- References for Chapters 5 and 6
- CHAPTER 7. THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA: SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT OF POPULATION
- Introduction
- Development of the Spatial Arrangement of Population
- Current Areal Distribution of Population
- Changing Regional Distribution of Population
- Summary
- References
- CHAPTER 8. CHARACTERISTICS OF POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
- Introduction
- Fertility Patterns
- Mortality Patterns
- Migration Patterns
- Components and Consequences of Population Change
- Summary
- Canada, Population Characteristics
- References
- CHAPTER 9. JAPAN
- Racial and Cultural Origins
- Population in Pre-modern Japan (Prior to 1868)
- Population Growth and Redistribution in Modern Japan (after 1868)
- Population Characteristics and Their Regional Distribution
- Population Mobility and Redistribution
- Population Density and Distribution Patterns
- References
- CHAPTER 10. AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
- Population Numbers and Growth
- Population Distribution and Density
- Components of Population Change
- Population Change in the 1960s
- Population Composition
- References
- INDEX
