GGR208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Population Geography, Human Geography
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The study of the ways in which spatial variation in the distribution, composition, migration and growth of population are related to the nature of places. Spatial variation means that population is different in different places, and they are in different terms of: distribution, composition, migration, growth. The nature of places means that places have characteristics that affect how people live in those places and how they move from place to place or within places. Historical: all of these components interact with each other. Population geographers study groups of people and how and why they grow and shrink. Geographical scale: this is done at different scales. Example: local (mississauga), regional (ontario), national (canada), international (the world) 3 main factors affecting population: fertility > birth, mortality > death, migration > people moving (change of residence) The people who measure these 3 rates are demographers. Population geography studies the meaning behind the numbers (quantitative and qualitative)
