Overview

Addressing the methodological and topical challenges facing demographers working in remote regions, this book compares and contrasts the research, methods and models, and policy applications from peripheral regions in developed nations. With the emphasis on human populations as dynamic, adaptive, evolving systems, it explores how populations respond in different ways to changing environmental, cultural and economic conditions and how effectively they manage these change processes. Theoretical understandings and policy issues arising from demographic modelling are tackled including: competition for skilled workers; urbanisation and ruralisation; population ageing; the impacts of climate change; the life outcomes of Indigenous peoples; globalisation and international migration. Based on a strong theoretical framework around issues of heterogeneity, generational change, temporariness and the relative strength of internal and external ties, Demography at the Edge provides a common set of approaches and issues that benefit both researchers and practitioners.

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Author:   Rasmus Ole Rasmussen ,  Dean Carson ,  Prescott Ensign ,  Lee Huskey
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.816kg
ISBN:  

9780754679622

ISBN 10:   0754679624
Pages:   372
Publication Date:   01 April 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

'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

Author Information

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 Dean Carson, Prescott C. Ensign, Rasmus Ole Rasmussen, Andrew Taylor, Lauren Bell, Per Axelsson, Tony Barnes, Kate Golebiowska, Marko Valenta, Tom Carter, Kim Johnstone, Paul A. Peters, Catherine Martel, Emma Lundholm, Dieter Muller, Marit Aure, Anne Britt Flemmen, Gary Johns, Gregory Williams, Malinda Steenkamp, Audrey Giles, Maureen G. Reed, Sean Markey, Keith Storey, Karen Heisler, Bilal Barakat, Ranu Basu, Lei Wang, Doris Schmallegger, Sharon Harwood, Lee Cerveny, Nick McTurk, Carlos Teixeira, Elizabeth Marino.

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