GEOG101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mortality Rate, Total Fertility Rate, Doubling Time
1 Jun 2016
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Geog101 migration and movement patterns (including health) Migration (permanent relocation; long distances, can be international or domestic/internal) Controls vs. movement (temporary relocation; cyclical where people move back and forth between places or periodic where people move back and forth but for longer periods of time ie. university) Seasonal migrants; snow birds; typically 4-6months (800,000 canadians a year) Circulation (temporary movement & use of space; work, studies, vacation) vs. migration (longer-term commitment; full time employment, buying a house etc. ) Behavioural geography, causes and effects, implications of society. Mobility applies to all types of spatial movement. Gross migration: total # of the people that leave and enter a country. Net migration: the difference (# people who enter - # people who leave = net) May be collective movement (community -> colonization) Past to future prediction and trends of human population. Arithmetic (crude) density: divide a country"s population by its total land (people per km2)
