Population and Settlement Geography

Nirali Prakashan

2020

97 p.

It gives us great pleasure to present the textbook of Population and Settlement Geography to our FYBSc readers. This book has been designed as a standard text book on Population and Settlement Geograohy. This book covers the entire syllabus of FYBSc Semester II new course of Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune effective from June 2019 onwards. This book has been written to fulfill the basic concepts. Some of the features of the book are observation, perception, analysis, critical thinking and understand the relationship between nature and human society. The book has been designed in four chapter. The basic knowledge behind this is to present the matter in a systematic way. First chapter deals with the basic concepts of Population Geography, Scope and Sources of Population Geography, Census, NSS and other Resources. Second chapter deals with the Population Dynamics, Determinates, Demography Transition Theory. Third chapter is on the Settlement. It explains the origin of settlements, types and various patterns of rural settlements, Urbanization trend and present situation of world is discussed in this book. Fourth and last chapter of this book is on Classification of Urban Settlements.

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