Population Geography: Social Justice for a Sustainable World

Synopsis

Population Geography: Social Justice for a Sustainable World surveys the ways in which geographic approaches may be applied to population issues, exploring how human populations are embedded in natural and social environments. It encourages students to evaluate population issues critically, given that population topics are at the heart of many of today’s most contentious subjects. Through introducing students to different lenses of analysis (ecological, economic, and social equity), the authors ask students to consider how different perspectives can lead to different conclusions on the same issue. Identifying and tackling today’s population problems therefore requires an understanding of these diverging, and sometimes conflicting, perspectives. The text covers all the key background information critical to any book on population geography (population size, distribution, and composition; fertility, mortality, and migration; population and resources) but also pushes students to think critically about the materials they have covered using the perspectives of sustainability and social justice. In this way, students move beyond simple fact learning toward higher-level skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of materials. This textbook will be a valuable resource for students of human geography, population geography, demography, and diaspora studies.

Copyright:

2023

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781000889390

Related ISBNs:

9781003143253, 9780367697075, 9780367697969

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

07/06/23

Copyrighted By:

Helen D. Hazen, Heike C. Alberts, and Kazimierz J. Zaniewski

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Social Studies, Earth Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.