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The Role of Regional Science in Migration and Population Research

The Review of Regional Studies

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Title The Role of Regional Science in Migration and Population Research
 
Creator Plane, David A.
 
Description This article considers regional science's role in contributing to migration research, and population research more generally. Beyond the intrinsic appeal of regional science's systems approach, migration analysis was one of our multidisciplinary field's success stories from the late 1960s through the early 1980s because of a widespread production of results that were of inherent interest, that were in some cases controversial, and that were successful in provoking policy discussions. My main argument is that we experience the validation of our belief in the importance of analytical, theory-driven perspectives on the world when the theoretical expertise and analytical rigor of regional science methods can be brought to bear on real-world empirical issues. Consequently, I argue that we should make population analysis an important, foundational element in regional science training.
 
Publisher Southern Regional Science Association
 
Date 2000-06-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journal.srsa.org/ojs/index.php/RRS/article/view/30.1.11
 
Source The Review of Regional Studies; Vol. 30, No 1 (2000); 79-83
0048-749X
1553-0892
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journal.srsa.org/ojs/index.php/RRS/article/view/30.1.11/336