Topics of population geography in the Asia-Pacific region (Week2)

Part1 Thinking Geographically

Key issue1: How do geographicers Describe where things are?

• Map:Cartographers make especially important decosions in creating a map-scale and porjection.
• Conteporary tools: GIS, Remote Sensing, GPS.
  Global forces, Local Impacts—> Computer mapping services (ex. Google map)

Key issue 2: Why is each point on earth unique?

• Place: Unique location of a feature
• Region: Areas of unique characteristics
  1.Cultural landscape
  2.Spatial association
  3.Regional intergration of culture
  4.Cultural Ecology: integrating culture and environment

Key issues 3: Why are Different Places Similar?

• Scale: from local to global
• Space: Distribution features
• Connectio between places

Part2  2010 World Population Data Sheet

Many countries are facing a shrinking pool of their working-age populations, often considered to be ages 15 to 64, to support the population ages 65+, jeopardizing pension guarantees and long-term health care programs for the elderly.The Population Reference Bureau's 2010 World Population Data Sheet and its summary report offer detailed information on 19 population, health, and environment indicators for more than 200 countries. Let’s talk about these indicators among Asia-pacific regions. (Download the data sheet)

Part3  Social Explorer

Social Explorer provides easy access to demographic information about the United States from 1790 to the present. It is a “conteporary tool” for describing the change of population in US.

http://www.socialexplorer.com/pub/home/home.aspx 

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