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The post‐Trewartha boom: the rise of demographics and applied population geography
Author(s) -
Plane David A.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
population, space and place
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.398
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1544-8452
pISSN - 1544-8444
DOI - 10.1002/psp.334
Subject(s) - demographics , population , baby boom , geography , boom , scale (ratio) , face (sociological concept) , census , population growth , human geography , historical geography , demography , economic geography , economic growth , social science , sociology , cartography , economics , engineering , environmental engineering
This essay focuses on the rise of applied population geography coincident with the lifecourse of persons born 50 years ago when Glenn Trewartha presented ‘A case for population geography’. Applied population geography and demographics came of age along with the post–Second World War baby boom generation. At the present time and in coming decades, new sources of population data and modes of analysis should lead to an ever‐expanding role for ‘geographic method’ in population research, the business world and governmental realms. The paper concludes with some thoughts on geographical education in the face of a robust job market for students trained for careers in demographics and local scale planning. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.