Question

explain the nature and scope of population geography.

Answer 1

Population geography is a division of human geography. It is the study of the ways in which spatial variations in the distribution, composition, migration, and growth of populations are related to the nature of places. Population geography involves demography in a geographical perspective. It focuses on the characteristics of population distributions that change in a spatial context. Examples can be shown through population density maps. A few types of maps that show the spatial layout of population are choropleth, isoline, and dot maps. Population geography studies:

Demographic phenomena (natality, mortality, growth rates, etc.) through both space and timeIncrease or decrease in population numbersThe movements and mobility of populationsOccupational StructureThe way in which places in turn react to population phenomena e.g. immigration

Research topics of other geographic sub-disciplines, such as settlement geography, have also a population-geographic dimension:

Grouping of people in settlementsThe way from the geographical character of places e.g. settlement patterns

Answer 2

The early works of George (1951) and the influential statement of Trewartha before the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in 1953 are often considered as the turning point in the emergence of population geography as a separate field within geographical studies. The development, however, was not sudden nor was it unexpected. The roots of the sub-field can be located in developments that were taking place both within geography and outside during some earlier periods.

The scope of population studies is quite wide. On the one hand, this subject is concerned with a quantitative study of the size, structure characteristics and territorial distribution of human populations and the changes occurring in them.

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