Overview
- Explores the challenges population decline presents for Europe and proposes a way forward
- Features recent demographic data/trends and compares growth/shrinkage from a historical as well as theoretical perspective
- Critically reviews relevant notions from geography, sociology, and public administration
- Complements theories with concrete examples and identifies good practices across Europe
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Population Studies (BRIEFSPOPULAT)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores the challenges population decline presents for Europe’s urban and rural areas. It features recent demographic data and trends not only for Europe as a whole, but also for selected countries, and compares growth and shrinkage from a historical as well as a theoretical perspective. In addition, the book critically reviews relevant notions from geography, sociology, and public administration. It also identifies good practices across Europe.
Throughout, theories are complemented with concrete examples and proposals are made on how to tackle demographic shrinkage in European cities and villages, from attempts to attract new residents to the countryside to innovative ways to guarantee public services. In the end, the authors conclude that solving the challenges caused by population decline require novel ways of thinking and provide answers to such future-oriented questions as: how to ensure the quality of life in an environment that is inhabited by fewer and older people, what investments are needed, and which actors should be involved.
Managing Population Decline in Europe’s Urban and Rural Areas offers detailed coverage of an underestimated and complex governance issue that asks for solutions in which citizens have to play an important role. It concludes that shrinkage requires a rethink of the specific tasks and roles of government and presents a way forward based on initiatives currently underway throughout Europe. The book will be a valuable resource for population policy makers as well as students and researchers interested in human geography, urban planning, rural development, European studies, public administration, and other social sciences.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Gert-Jan Hospers teaches economic geography at the University of Twente and has a special chair in place marketing at Radboud University, the Netherlands. He has published a lot on the urban and regional development of North West Europe. Nol Reverda is sociologist and full professor at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands, where he runs a research centre on social integration. Besides, he is scientific director of the Netherlands Research Centre of Demographic Change, Neimed.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Managing Population Decline in Europe's Urban and Rural Areas
Authors: Gert-Jan Hospers, Nol Reverda
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Population Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12412-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-12411-7Published: 01 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-12412-4Published: 18 November 2014
Series ISSN: 2211-3215
Series E-ISSN: 2211-3223
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 88
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Additional Information: Original Dutch edition published by Boom Lemma Uitgevers Den Haag, 2012
Topics: Demography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Human Geography