Recapturing Space: New Middle-Range Theory in Spatial Demography

Type Book Section - Demography Is an Inherently Spatial Science
Title Recapturing Space: New Middle-Range Theory in Spatial Demography
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2016
Page numbers 99-102
Publisher Springer
URL https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-22810-5_6
Abstract
Demography is, by its very nature, concerned with people in places, although the history of the discipline over time reveals a struggle between the desire to find universal principles (such as the original model of the demographic transition) and the recognition that spatial variation is itself a universal principle. Demography is in the process of evolving from a spatially aware science to a spatially analytic science, and this book is part of that evolution. In this chapter I first offer a general framework for the application of spatial analysis to demographic research as a way of integrating and better understanding the different transitional components of the overall demographic transition. I then illustrate tools of spatial demography by applying them to an analysis of demographic change in the West African country of Ghana, with an added focus on Accra, the country’s capital city.

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