How unusual is Africa’s demography? U.N. estimates of slowing birth rates predicted an economic surge, but trends have fallen short, as have manufacturing and private investment. If you refer to […]
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ARTICLE: Population & Migration
NEWS via TurkishPress: World’s population at risk from organism-borne diseases
World’s population at risk from organism-borne diseases Tuesday, March 11, 2014 GENEVA – The World Health Organization (WHO) has released information stating that more than half of the world`s population […]
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News via India.com: As the world population increases, eating insects could soon become mainstream
As the world population increases, eating insects could soon become mainstream Agencies March 9, 2014 at 7:31 pm How would you react if your neighborhood restaurant serves you a menu that […]
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VIDEO RESOURCE via NPR: Visualizing How a Population Grows so Big so Fast
NPR: Visualizing How a Population Grows so Big so Fast This is a great video clip that shows how populations slow and quicken as certain “checks” are added or subtracted. […]
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NEWS via NewYorkTimes: Some Who Fled Cuba Are Returning to Help
Some Who Fled Cuba Are Returning to Help By DAMIEN CAVEMARCH 4, 2014 At Atelier, foreigners and Cubans find food and service that had disappeared from Havana for decades. Credit […]
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NEWS via Telegraph: The maps which explain the Ukraine crisis
The maps which explain the Ukraine crisis As Russia and Ukraine come ever closer to blows over Crimea, we explain, using maps, the issues at stake 10:35AM GMT 04 Mar […]
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NEWS via NBCNews: First Americans May Have Been Stuck in Beringia for Millennia
First Americans May Have Been Stuck in Beringia for Millennia BY ALAN BOYLE WILLIAM MANLEY / IAAR / UNIV. OF COLO. This map shows the outlines of modern Siberia (left) […]
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NEWS via HeritageDaily: 17th- and 18th-century risk of disease through Migration
17th- and 18th-century risk of disease through Migration HERITAGE March 3, 2014 – No comments The fate of migrants moving to cities in 17th- and 18th-century England demonstrates how a single pathogen could […]
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INFOGRAPHIC via Visual.ly: GLobal Life Expectancies from Birth
MAP via Sentencing Project: How Felon Voting Policies Restrict the Black vote
Cartogram of disenfranchisement rates, 2010. (Sentencing Project) In Florida, more than one in five black adults can’t vote. Not because they lack citizenship or haven’t registered, but because they have, […]
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INFOGRAPH via PRB: 2013 World Population Data Sheet
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RESOURCE via GoogleMapsMania: Google’s Population Explorer-TRY THIS!
Monday, February 24, 2014 Population Mapping Population Explorer is a Google Maps based tool that can estimate the population of any area on Earth, down to an area of 1km2. Draw […]
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Map via WashingtonPost: Where people are moving to and from
Where people are moving to and from The map above comes from Atlas Van Lines and shows where their customers were headed last year. Most states had a steady balance of people […]
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NEWS vía Global Times: Island Migration – Canada Closes it’s Doors
Island migration Recently, Canada announced that it would end its investor program, closing off another path for Chinese immigrants. However, as Canada closes the door, island countries such as St […]
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NEWS via PewResearch: Global Population Estimates by Age, 1950-2050-INTERACTIVE
JANUARY 30, 2014 Global Population Estimates by Age, 1950-2050 The demographic future for the U.S. and the world looks very different than the recent past. Growth from 1950 to 2010 […]
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NEWS via Nat’l Geographic: The Growth of Megacities
Geography in the News: The Growth of Megacities Posted by Neal Lineback of Geography in the NewsTM on February 17, 2014 By Neal Lineback and Mandy Lineback Gritzner, Geography in the NewsTM Megacities’ Expansive […]
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NEWS via the Guardian: Time running out for China’s one-child policy after three decades
Time running out for China’s one-child policy after three decades As list of exemptions grows, experts predict scrapping of rule said to have prevented 400m births Even if the one-child […]
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NEWS via APA: UN: There are 232 million international migrants worldwide
Years later, we still see evidence that Earnst Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration are still at work. -The Human Imprint ▇ ▅ █ ▅ ▇ ▂ ▃ ▁ ▁ ▅ ▃ […]
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INTERACTIVE: Racial Dot Maps via: University of Va.
The Racial Dot Map One Dot Per Person for the Entire United States Created by Dustin Cable, July 2013 Access and Use Policy Link to Full Screen Map The Map | The […]
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NEWS via Pew Research Center: As the population grays, Americans stay upbeat
As the population grays, Americans stay upbeat BY RAKESH KOCHHARLEAVE A COMMENT One-in-five Americans are expected to be 65 and older by mid-century, and this could be a problem for the […]
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NEWS via CNN: Mainland Chinese line up for Australia’s ‘millionaire visa’
Mainland Chinese line up for Australia’s ‘Millionaire Visa’ By Peter Shadbolt, for CNN February 4, 2014 — Updated 1145 GMT (1945 HKT) Chinese immigration into Australia now represents the third largest […]
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NEWS: Indian woman and baby burned alive for dowry, police say
See on Scoop.it – Advanced Human Geography Police in eastern India have arrested the husband and parents-in-law of a 22-year-old woman for allegedly burning her and her 1-year-old baby girl […]
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NEWS via Mlive.com: ‘I used to live here’: Saginaw’s Steep Population Drop hits Neighborhoods
Keyterms: Population Geography, urbanization, deindustrialization, out-migration, white-flight, redlining, push factors, Urban Geography, Economic Geography, Development, Blight, Industry, Manufacturing, secondary economic activity. (¯`·._.·(¯`·._.·(¯`·._.· Article Below ·._.·´¯)·._.·´¯)·._.·´¯) ‘I used to live here’: […]
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NEWS via CNN: Moving map shows Chinese New Year travel rush in real time
As hundreds of millions of Chinese migrate home for the new year, Baidu uses cell phone data to create a real time map of human migration. -The Human Imprint ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ […]
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NEWS vía GlobalPost: Latin America: The Cost of Murder
The effects that crime, violence, and the homicide rate have on Latin America is a model for the rest of the world. The loss of GDP due to a loss […]
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