Week12 Development and Demographic Change in Taiwan(1)

 

Development and Demographic Change in Taiwan(Roger Mark Selya,2004)

This book describes and analyzes the demographic changes that took place in Taiwan between 1945 and 1995. It uses an interdisciplinary methodology so that different approaches to demographic change can be compared and contrasted. It attempts to evaluate Taiwan’s experience so that lessons for the Third World can be extracted. The content and presentation of the material are deliberately designed to replicate the 1954 work of Barclay, Demographic Change and Colonial Development in Taiwan. As such the book seeks to provide the reasons that economic development without demographic change took place under the Japanese while development with demographic change took place under the Chinese. The volume is richly illustrated with some 82 original maps and graphs.

Link:Development and demographic change in Taiwan

Contents:

• Introduction
• Growth, Distribution, Composition, and Structure
• Fertility
• Mortality, Morbidity, and Public Health
• Migration
• Population Policies
• Summary and Conclusions

 

Week11 Where and Why people move

Key points:

1. Many factors stimulate the migration process. They include conflict, economic conditions, political strife, cultural circumstances, environmental change, and technological advances.
   --> Explain these process with the cases of Asia-Pacific regions.
2. Voluntary migrations such as the movement toward the Sunbelt in North America, are Stimulated by " pull" as well as "push" factors.
   --> Think about the Chinese migrations in the early 19 centuries. Where and why they moved?
3. Not all migrations involve long-term relocation; cyclic and periodic movements are common as well.
   --> For example?
4.  Forced migrations result from the imposition of power by stronger peoples over weaker ones. A modern example is the repatriation of illegal migrants by governments that are unwilling to accept them.
   --> Explain the example and discuss the reason.
5. The voluntary migration of Europeans to the New World, the forced migration of Africans to the Americas, and the migration of Europeans to their overseas colonial empires are among migration streams that have transformed the world.
   --> How about the voluntary migrations in Asia-Pacific region?
6. Internal migrations, involving major population shifts, have occurred in the former Soviet Union, the United States, China, and the Large countries. Mobility is among the qualities that define the character of culture, and American society today is the world's most mobile.
   -->Why American society is the world's most mobile ?
7. Among the important contributors to contemporary populations are refugees fleeing their place of residence in the face of international conflict, ethnic strife, or environment disaster.

2.1 Kids: Stable Population

• Which scientists say it takes 1 person to replace another?
• Where does the 2.1 come from? Wouldn't replacement rate fertility be 2.0?
• The population doesn’t decrease that quickly! People stick around.
• What economic hardships will happen if the fertility rate is too low?
• Why is the replacement rate higher in developing nations?
• Where are you getting these numbers?
• Big deal. If future generations need more people, let them have more kids.

Week9 Visiting Academia Sinica

Week8 Process and cycles of population change

Part1 Discussion materails ( Process and cycles of population change)

HOME, a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

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Warming Up~Discuss the population issues in the move 

Discussion1: The debate of  over population growth and food supply started by Malthus 200 years ago, still continues. Neo-Malthusians argue that Malthus wrote about Britain two centuries ago can be applied to the world as a whole day- recent gains in global food suplies notwithstanding. Take pro- or anti- Malthusian position and argue your case, using your geographic knowledge of population distribution, urbanization, resource avalibity, and demographic processes.

Discussion2: Some argue that the demographic transition model is not necessarily an appropriate tool for understanding likely future population trends in Pacific Aasia countries. What is different about those countries at the time they went through the demographic transition? Are those differences likely to render the demographic transition model inapplicable to Pacific Asia? If so, why? If not, Why not?

Part2 Gapminder Desktop

With Gapminder Desktop you can show animated statistics from your own laptop!

Exercise1:Compare the population issues (Life expectancy, income, health, child mortality..etc.) among the Pacific Aasia countries, and discuss the regional differences.

Exercise2: Using Gapminder Desktop to examine your viewpoints on Discussion1 and Discussion2.

Week6 Fundamentals of population: Location, Distribution, and Density

Part1 Discussion materials (Fundamentals of population: Location, Distribution, and Density)

The study of population is termed demography. The focus of the field of population geography is on the spatial aspects of demography. Demographic problems and issues vary not only from region to region and country to country, but also within countries. Our spatial inquiry leads to some penetrating insights into demographic predicaments.

• Key issues in population geography
• Elements of population geography:
  (1) population and space
  (2) population distribution and density
• Major population concentartions

EXERCISE: Download the Urban and Regional Statistics of Taiwan(2009). Describe how demographic indicators were used in this repot.
http://www.cepd.gov.tw/encontent/m1.aspx?sNo=0001452


Part2 Human development Reports

The first Human Development Report in 1990 opened with the simply stated premise that has guided all subsequent Reports: “People are the real wealth of a nation.” With its wealth of empirical data and innovative approach to measuring development, the Human Development Report had a profound impact on development thinking around the world. Featuring the Human Development Index, every report presents agenda-setting data and analysis and calls international attentions to issues and policy options that put people at the center of strategies to meet the challenges of development.

website:http://hdr.undp.org/en/humandev/

A presentation for UNDP Human Development Report 2005 in English and some other languages. Human Development Trends was produced in 2005.

website: http://www.gapminder.org/downloads/human-development-trends-2005/

Part3 TED TALKS: Hans Rosling's new insights on poverty

Week4 World Population Data Sheet

Part1 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)

http://www.prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2010/2010wpds.aspx
EXERCISE: Reviewing the data sheet and compare the indicators between Taiwan and Vietnam.


Part2 Population Data Sheet and Social Explore
Social Explorer provides easy access to demographic information about the United States from 1790 to the present. It is a “contemporary tool” for describing the change of population in US.
http://www.socialexplorer.com/pub/home/home.aspx

Part3 The best stats you've ever seen
You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world."

Week3 Thinking Geographically(2)

Part1 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)

Part 2 Understanding the Conteporary tools

1.What is GIS?

2.What is GPS?

Week2 Thinking Geographically(1)

Part1 Key issues in Human Geography
Key issue : 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 : Why are Different Places Similar?

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

PART2 Historical Maps~David Rumsey Map Collection Database and Blog
The historical map collection has over 26,000 maps and images online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World,Europe,Asia, and Africa are also represented.

EXERCISE: Find a historical map of Viernam in 19 century and identify the historical place names.

Week1 Introduction and Course Objectives

Part 1 Introduction and Course Objectives
This course covers the fundamental concepts of population geography, current research topics and some empirical studies on population issues in Asia-Pacific region. Students will learn to examine the complex population change with demographic indexes, and learn how to apply geographic information system (GIS) behind analyzing important current issues in the field of population geography.
Part2 Background Survey of each Student
1.Background Coursework:
2.Computer Experiences
3.Please briefly describe what your thesis/project/internship is about?
4.What do you hope/expect to get from this class?
Part3 What we learned so far?  Discussion of the world population growth.
The world's population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years -- and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth. This is the paradoxical answer that Hans Rosling unveils at TED@Cannes using colorful new data display technology (you'll see).

Asia's rise -- how and when
Hans Rosling was a young guest student in India when he first realized that Asia had all the capacities to reclaim its place as the world's dominant economic force. At TEDIndia, he graphs global economic growth since 1858 and predicts the exact date that India and China will outstrip the US.