Demography at the Edge: Remote Human Populations in Developed Nations

ISBN-13: 9781138267992 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 372 str.

Rasmus Ole Rasmussen; Prescott Ensign; Lee Huskey

Opis

Addressing the methodological and topical challenges facing remote demographers, this book compares and contrasts the research, methods and models, and policy applications from remote regions in developed nations. The work draws upon four examples: the far north and desert regions of Australia, the northern provinces and territories of Canada, Alaska, and the Arctic north of Scandinavia.

Recenzje

'Overall, the editors and other contributors to Demography at the Edge provide an accessible and informative introduction to the social demography of remote areas in developed countries. By reviewing a broad set of methodological and substantive topics, and complementing them with numerous case studies, they give readers a necessary baseline of knowledge about remote area demography. Their book contains important lessons for academics, policymakers, and local stakeholders...' Journal of Regional Science

Spis treści

I: Methods, Models and Data; 1: Perspectives on ‘Demography at the Edge'; 2: The Challenge of Enumeration and Population Estimation in Remote Areas; 3: The Forecasting of Remote Area Populations: Numbers Aren't Everything; 4: International Immigration Trends and Data; 5: Indigenous Vitals: Trends and Measurement; II: The Dynamics of Populations at the Edge; 6: Bubbles and Craters: Analysing Ageing Patterns of Remote Area Populations; 7: Transnational Links at the Edge; 8: Indigenous Demography: Convergence, Divergence, or Something Else?; 9: The ‘Problem' of Indigenous Migration in the Globalised State; 10: Labour Migration: ‘What goes around comes around'; 11: Fly-in/Fly-out Resource Developments: Implications for Community and Regional Development; 12: Why the Other Half Leave: Gender Aspects of Northern Sparsely Populated Areas; 13: Education, Remoteness and Population Dynamics; 14: Tourist Populations and Local Capital; 15: The Challenge of Housing in Remote Areas; 16: Weather Hazards, Place and Resilience in the Remote Norths; 17: Population Policies at the Edge: The Demographic Ambitions of Frontiers

O autorze

Associate Professor Dean Carson is the Head of Population Studies at The Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University in Australia's Northern Territory; Associate Professor Rasmus Ole Rasmussen is attached to the Department of Geography and International Studies at the University of Roskilde in Denmark and works as a Senior Research Fellow with the Nordic Centre for Spatial Development (NORDREGIO) in Sweden; Dr Prescott Ensign is an assistant professor with the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa in Canada; Lee Huskey is the Professor of Economics at the University of Alaska Anchorage and Andrew Taylor is a Population Researcher with The Northern Institute at Charles Darwin University, Australia