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Post Midterm – Population Geographies /demographic trends
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Weekly outline:
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Introduction to pop geo
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Measuring pop distribution and change
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World pop growth
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Demographic transitions in core and periphery
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Developmentalism
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Popluation in the news:
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1. AARP sponsoring republican presidential candidate
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2. Economic recession and delayed marriage in the US
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3. Aging of pop in core and semi-peripheral economies
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4. pop decline in the Midwest and loss of 6 seats/political power in the house
of rep. as a result of last census
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5. India using cash bonuses to reduce birthrates
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Questions:
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1. What is population geography?
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2. Globalization and uneven-ness in pop trends, impacts
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3. Demographic measurements: balancing equations, distribution, density, age
pyramids, fertility and mortality
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Demographic Transitions in the core and periphery
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Graying of the core
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Continued rapid growth in periphery
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Introduction:
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Population geo is related to demography
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The study of the characteristics of human pop (age, gender, ethnicity,
education, occupation structure, etc NOT JUST fertility, mortality,
migration)

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- Fall '10
- Dempsey
- Life annuity, natural increase, Measuring pop distribution
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