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A second edition of this book is now available. This compact and accessible core text offers a comprehensive, issue-oriented introduction to population geography. Providing a set of functional tools and techniques for studying population geography, K. Bruce Newbold also explores real-world issues such as HIV/AIDS, international migration, fertility, mortality, resource scarcity, and conflict. Every chapter includes both methods and focus sections to provide a more in-depth discussion of the ideas and concepts presented in the text. Newbold highlights the geographical perspective-with its ability to provide powerful insights and bridge disparate issues-by emphasizing the role of space and place, location, regional differences, and diffusion. Arguing that an understanding of population is essential to prepare for the future, this cogent text will provide upper-division undergraduates with a thorough grasp of the fundamentals of the field.

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Newbold presents important population-research themes at different spatial scales with great clarity, skill, and balance. This excellent text has been extremely useful for both my students as well as for me in my capacity as instructor. The Focus sections and the Methods, Measures, and Tools sections at the end of each chapter encourage students to engage with the material through in-depth reflection on real-world issues and case studies. This updated edition will no doubt become an invaluable text for upper-division undergraduates studying multiple aspects of population geography in North America and across the globe.--Carlos Teixeira, University of British Columbia Population geography is one of the most important subjects out there--key to understanding how communities change, cities grow, labor forces evolve, and social and spatial inequalities persist. Newbold's book covers all the essentials, from foundational theory and concepts, to data, methods, and policy. The book is organized with an intuitive and engaging structure and is sure to prove equally popular with students and established experts in the field.--Rachel Franklin, Newcastle University

Population geography is one of the most important subjects out there--key to understanding how communities change, cities grow, labor forces evolve, and social and spatial inequalities persist. Newbold's book covers all the essentials, from foundational theory and concepts, to data, methods, and policy. The book is organized with an intuitive and engaging structure and is sure to prove equally popular with students and established experts in the field.--Rachel Franklin, Newcastle University

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K. Bruce Newbold is professor of geography at McMaster University. His books include Six Billion Plus: World Population in the Twenty-first Century.

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