Population Geography: Tools and Issues / Edition 3

by K. Bruce Newbold

Overview

This compact and accessible text provides a comprehensive, issue-oriented introduction to population geography. First grounding students in the fundamentals, 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 U.S. and international cases, he explores such pressing concerns as HIV/AIDS, international migration, refugee movements, fertility, mortality, resource scarcity, and conflict. Every chapter includes both methods and focus sections 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 illustrate and enhance the cases. Newbold highlights the geographical perspective—with its ability to provide powerful insights and bridge disparate issues—by emphasizing the roles 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442265318
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	02/15/2017
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	366
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

K. Bruce Newbold is professor of geography at McMaster University. He is the author of Six Billion Plus: World Population in the Twenty-first Century.

Table of Contents

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: Immigration and Transnational Migrants Chapter 8: Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons Chapter 9: Cities Chapter 10: Population Policies Chapter 11: Population Growth: Linking to Economic Development, Resource Scarcity, and Food Security Conclusion: Doing Population Geography

Editorial Reviews

Brilliantly done. Bruce Newbold combines a comprehensive knowledge of population geography with insights gained from his own work to write a book that presents important population issues at multiple spatial scales in a way that encourages students to seriously engage the material. Just as important as the concepts are the series of exercises designed to teach students some of the methods of population geography and how they can be used to tackle vital issues. This text will save me countless hours of work while providing my students with one of the best introductions to the field. I can’t wait to start using it.

Matthew Shumway

Regardless of their research interests, most social scientists, geographers, and planners at some time in their careers must include population as a variable that must be addressed. For those with little or no formal training in demography. Newbold’s book, although a textbook, is an excellent handbook to consult.

Journal of Urban Affairs

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.

Sue C. Grady

Newbold presents important population research themes at different spatial scales with great clarity, skill, and balance. This excellent text has been extremely useful for my students as well as for me in my capacity as instructor. The Focus sections and the Methods, Measures, and Tools sections at the end of each chapter encourage students to engage with the material through in-depth reflection on real-world issues and case studies. This updated edition will no doubt become an invaluable text for upper-division undergraduates studying multiple aspects of population geography in North America and across the globe.

Carlos Teixeira

A highly approachable text, Newbold’s Population Geography continues to provide undergraduate students with the latest debates and updated information on global population dynamics. Whether seeking to understand mortality figures, fertility trends, or migration flows, readers will come away with the core concepts necessary to understand population geography.

Emily Skop

Population geography is one of the most important subjects out there—key to understanding how communities change, cities grow, labor forces evolve, and social and spatial inequalities persist. Newbold’s book covers all the essentials, from foundational theory and concepts to data, methods, and policy. The book is organized with an intuitive and engaging structure and is sure to prove equally popular with students and established experts in the field.

Rachel Franklin