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Allan and Anne Findlay argue that a nation's human population is a vital resource in the development process. Changes in its composition - increased life expectancy combined with a falling birth rate, for example - can have profound effects upon a society. Warfare and mass migration of male workers also have long-reaching effects on those left behind. The rapid growth of Third World populations has often incorrectly been identified as the major force preventing more rapid economic development. Population pressure has been known to generate technological breakthroughs. Their final chapter examines family planning programmes, and concludes by asking who benefits most from population policies and questioning the right of developed countries to advocate family planning programmes for Third World nations. ... Read more

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Place, Migration and Development in the Third World provides a fresh examination of the nature of Third World development. Lawrence Brown focuses on the characteristics of particular places and regions and their influences on behavior, and appraises the links between population movements and regional and national changes. The perspectives put forward depart markedly from traditional approaches and offer an alternative to conventional thinking. ... Read more

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International population migration has recently become a major topic of renewed interest to the global community. With the ending of the Cold War, many of the physical and political barriers to migration have fallen, and as international economic disparities have widened, the incentive for movement has grown. In many countries new legislative and administrative restrictions have been imposed on the immigration of economic migrants and refugees. Population Migration and the Changing World Order is a collection of 16 papers built around the theme of how global migration systems have been affected by recent geopolitical and geoeconomic changes. It contains general introductory and concluding overviews, and three sections that focus on movements within the Developed World, from the Third World to the Developed World, and within the Third World. These case study chapters draw on original research from a wide range of geographical areas, including Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and North America, and deal thematically with specific migrant categories, both in terms of origin and destination, workers and families, skilled and unskilled, refugees and school leavers, rich and poor. Overall, this collection offers a global perspective by geographers on a widespread phenomenon of growing concern and importance. It presents international migration in the 1990s not as a threat to economic and political stability but rather as an opportunity for migrants and states to react positively to the new and still changing world order. ... Read more

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Contents: Preface: The History and Context of Regional Research, James J. Zuiches and Dennis Oldenstadt; Chapter 1: Migration Research in the West, 1982-1992 ... Read more

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Political scientists, demographers, legal scholars, and historians have come together in this volume, under the direction of the late Myron Weiner, one of the leading scholars in this field, to address three of the major sets of questions in the field of political demography: How changes in demographic variables - population size, growth, distribution, and composition - influence threats (real or perceived) to a country's political stability and security; how governments respond to demographic trends; and how governments attempt to change demographic variables in order to enhance national security. ... Read more

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The rate of population loss of large Western cities has slowed recently after years of steady counterurbanization, raising doubts about the inevitability of this demographic process. Using case studies and census data, this shows and analyzes trends in counterurbanization. The book is intended for second and third year undergraduates studying population and urban geography. ... Read more

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Focusing on the four 'New World' countries - Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States - this book explores key themes and issues in indigenous mobility. In each of these countries, indigenous peoples share a common historical experience of population decline as a consequence of colonisation by non-indigenes, followed by a period of recuperation, and more recently, rapid growth under regimes of welfare colonialism. ... Read more

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With the emergence of fertility declines in the greater part of the developing world, study of the phenomenon has increased profoundly over the last three decades, and a voluminous amount of literature has emerged. Yet our knowledge of the decline is scattered in numerous publications, making sources difficult to find. This bibliography provides a guide to the literature on fertility decline in Latin America, Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. It will be an invaluable asset for population experts and students wishing to do research on fertility decline. ... Read more

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The Geography of Towns provides a concise but thorough introduction to theimportant subject of urban geography. It traces the development of urban areasfrom the earliest sites of Nineveh, Aleppo, and Agade to modern megalopolisesand strip cities, and deals authoritatively with problems of classifi cationand ranking, location and type, origins, and course of development, and therelationship of the city to its region and nation. ... Read more

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Provides a much-needed perspective on the geopolitical, economic and social consequences of refugees, drawing out key global themes and illustrating them with empirical and comparative material. The first section (of three) deals with the background of the refugee crisis; its effects in the countries of first asylum, predominantly in the poorer countries of the ``south''; and the new challenges facing governments and migrants in the richer countries of the ``north''. Prospects for future research on refugees by geographers and social scientists as well as its rising significance for economic development and social welfare in both poor and rich nations are discussed in the final section. ... Read more

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A survey of all the regions in Britain which considers how far politics in the period 1885-1910 can be analyzed in terms of religion, class, geographical area and other factors. The passing of the Third Reform Act meant that elections were less corrupt and that most adult males could vote. ... Read more

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This textbook on the geography of the service sector, a rapidly-growing area of the economy in Western societies, stresses how emerging economist trends have progressed due to technological change, social and political responses, and unprecedented economic transformations to produce a "post-industrial world". An introduction is given to how the various elements of the service industries have produced a new economic geography of location, production and exchange. Case illustrations on a variety of scales from local to regional and national are used. The importance of technological change, the location and impact of offices, the growth of multi-national operations, finance and property development, and accessibility are among the themes tackled within the geographical perspectives of location and structure. This text is intended for use in business studies, management, demography, economics, geography, planning and public administration. ... Read more

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The region that became Roman Arabia had been loosely "unified" and centrally administered by the Nabataean Arabs during the later stages of the Hellenistic period, as Seleucid and Ptolemaic control of Syria/Palestine/Transjordan gradually passed to the Romans. When Herod the Great established himself as the primary political force within Palestine (37-4 BC), by acceptance of a client status with Rome, he was allowed to annex to his kingdom and adminster all the territory collectively called today the Lava Lands (the Hawran) of southern Syria exclusive of the northern Nabateaen city of Bostra. That was the beginning of what became a long and very gradual process of pacification and urbanization of a region traditionally populated by pastoralists and infested with brigands who resisted - often through rebellious activity - royal or imperial encroachment. Governance of that area became Rome's responsibility when the Herodian and Nabataaen dynasties terminated almost simultaneously at the end of the first century AD and their royal domains became part of the ajoining provinces of Syria and Arabia, respectively.There is no evidence that Rome pursued a stated policy of economic and social development in the Hauran region. There is every reason, however, to believe that the provincial authorities supported, and even encouraged, those rural communities to become urbanized. Though few villages ever achieved the rank of formal "poleis" in the six centuries that followed Roman rule, many developed the form and function of the larger provinical city-states (for example Canatha, Bostra, and Philadelphia). The 15 articles included in this volume represent some of the authors research and publications between the early 1980s and early 21st century. The papers on the inter-related topics of geography, urbanization and settlement patterns aim to provide solid groundwork in comparing and contrasting historical development of the Roman Near East with neighbouring provinces of the eastern Roman Empire, as well as other portions of the Roman world. ... Read more