Population geography

Population geography relates spatial variations in a distribution, composition, migration, as well as growth of populations to the terrain. Population geography involves demography in a geographical perspective. It focuses on the characteristics of population distributions that conform in a spatial context. This often involves factors such(a) as where population is found together with how the size and composition of these population is regulated by the demographic processes of fertility, mortality, and migration.

Contributions to population geography are cross-disciplinary because geographical epistemologies related to environment, place and space create been developed at various times. Related disciplines add geography, demography, sociology, and economics.

History

Since its inception, population geography has taken at least three distinct but related forms, the near recent of which appears increasingly integrated with human geography in general. The earliest and most enduring hold of population geography emerged in the 1950s, as part of spatial science. Pioneered by Glenn Trewartha, Wilbur Zelinsky, William A. V. Clark, and others in the United States, as well as Jacqueline Beujeau-Garnier and Pierre George in France, it focused on the systematic discussing of the distribution of population as a whole and the spatial variation in population characteristics such(a) as fertility and mortality. Population geography defined itself as the systematic examine of:

Accordingly, it categorized populations as groups synonymous with political jurisdictions representing gender, religion, age, disability, generation, sexuality, and race, variables which go beyond the vital statistics of births, deaths, and marriages. condition the rapidly growing global population as well as the baby boom in affluent countries such as the United States, these geographers studied the version between demographic growth, displacement, and access to resources at an international scale.