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=Chapter 2: Population= =__**Unit II. Population (13–17%)**__= A. Geographical analysis of population

B. Population growth and decline over time and space C. Population movement
 * 1) ensity, distribution, and scale
 * 2) Consequences of various densities and distributions
 * 3) Patterns of composition: age, sex, race, and ethnicity [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/editor/insert_table.gif]]
 * 4) Population and natural hazards: past, present, and future
 * 1) Historical trends and projections for the future
 * 2) Theories of population growth including the Demographic Model
 * 3) Patterns of fertility, mortality, and health
 * 4) Regional variations of demographic transitions
 * 5) Effects of population policies
 * 1) Push and pull factors
 * 2) Major voluntary and involuntary migrations at different scales
 * 3) Migration selectivity
 * 4) Short-term, local movements, and activity space

An understanding of the ways in which the human population is organized geographically provides you with the tools you need to make sense of cultural, political, economic and urban systems. Thus, many of the concepts and theories encountered in this part of the course crosscut with other course modules. In addition, the course themes of scale, pattern, place, and interdependence can all be illustrated with population topics. For example, you may analyze the distribution of the human population at different scales: global, continental, national, state or province, and local community.

Explanations of why population is growing or declining in some places and not others center on understanding the processes of fertility, mortality, and migration. In stressing the relevance of place context, for example, you may assess why fertility rates have dropped in some parts of the developing world but not in others, and how age–sex structures vary from one country to another. Analysis of refugee flows, immigration, internal migration, and residential mobility helps you appreciate the interconnections between population phenomena and other topics. Environmental degradation may prompt rapid out-migration and urbanization, in turn creating new pressures on the environment. Refugee flows may be magnified when groups have no access to political power because of the way boundaries have been drawn. Rapid immigration to certain parts of the world fosters regional differences in industrial employment and political sentiment toward foreigners. This part of the course also aids in our critical understanding of contemporary population trends by considering how models of population growth and decline, including Malthusian theory, the demographic and the epidemiological (mortality) transitions, change. Given these kinds of understandings, you are in a position to evaluate the role, strengths, and weaknesses of major population policies. For example, how might increasing the education levels of females lead to lower fertility?

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//__Required Readings: __//
 * 1) Chapter 2 Key Issue 1 [[file:APHG Chapter 2 Key Issue 1.docx]]
 * 2) Chapter 2 Key Issue 2 [[file:APHG Chapter 2 Key Issue 2.docx]]
 * 3) Chapter 2 Key Issue 3 [[file:APHG Chapter 2 Key Issue 3.docx]]
 * 4) Chapter 2 Key Issue 4 [[file:APHG Chapter 2 Key Issue 4.docx]]

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