Human Geography

By Simon Oakes
April 2010
Hodder Education
Distrubuted by Trans-Atlantic Publications Inc.
ISBN: 9781444107807
100 pages

$13.95 Paper Original

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Table of Contents:
Population & Migration
1 Population distribution
2 Population density
3 Crude death rate (CDR)
4 Crude birth rate (CBR)
5 Natural increase
6 Demographic transition model (DTM)
7 Population structure
8 Age–sex pyramid
9 Youthful population
10 Ageing population
11 Dependency ratio
12 Census
13 Population policy
14 Natural resources
15 Overpopulation
16 Underpopulation
17 Malthus’s theory
18 Boserup’s theory
19 Migration
20 Economic migration
21 Refugees
22 Rural–urban migration
23 Lee’s model
Economic Activity, Globalisation & Development
24 Primary sector
25 Secondary sector
26 Tertiary sector
27 Quaternary sector
28 Sector growth model
29 Globalisation
30 Global networks
31 Global flows
32 Glocalisation
33 Newly industrialised country (NIC)
34 New superpowers
35 Transnational corporation (TNC)
36 Foreign direct investment (FDI)
37 Multiplier effect
38 Division of labour
39 Fordism
40 Trading bloc
41 Economy of scale
42 Deindustrialisation
43 Economic development
44 Social development
45 Informal sector
46 Debt crisis
47 Aid
48 Trade
49 Dependency
50 Colonialism
51 Underdevelopment theory
52 Rostow’s model
53 Cumulative causation
54 Core and periphery
55 Growth pole
Settlement & the Urban Environment
56 Settlement pattern
57 Site and situation
58 Settlement hierarchy
59 Threshold and range
60 Sphere of influence
61 Breakpoint
62 Urban
63 City
64 Megacity
65 Urbanisation
66 Land-use model
67 Concentric growth
68 Urban physical influences
69 Urban functions
70 Urban industries
71 Urban population density
72 Urban services
73 Central business district (CBD)
74 Bid–rent theory
75 Out-of-town retail
76 Inner-city decline
77 Cycle of poverty
78 Urban regeneration
79 Gentrification
80 Ethnic village
81 Shanty towns
82 Suburbanisation
83 New Town
Rural Geography, Agriculture & Tourism
84 Rural–urban fringe
85 Rural
86 Rural functions
87 Rural population
88 Counterurbanisation
89 Rural deprivation
90 Working countryside
91 Intensive farming
92 Extensive farming
93 Agricultural globalisation
94 Agribusiness
95 Farm subsidy
96 Forestry and fishing
97 Tourism
98 Ecotourism
99 Butler’s model of tourism
100 Rebranding