scholarly journals Inquiry into population, migration and agglomeration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Leishman ◽  
Nicole Gurran ◽  
Amity James ◽  
Christian Nygaard
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Agglomeration Economies ◽  
Population Migration ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Economic Productivity ◽  
Key Drivers

This Inquiry final research report investigates agglomeration economies and their ability to alter the economic productivity of cities, together with what are the key drivers of population growth and mobility in Australia.

Relationships between metropolitan, satellite and regional city size, spatial context and economic productivity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Leishman ◽  
Steven Bond-Smith ◽  
Weidong Liang ◽  
Jinqiao Long ◽  
Duncan Maclennan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agglomeration Economies ◽  
City Size ◽  
Spatial Context ◽  
Economic Productivity ◽  
Housing Costs

This report considers evidence about the existence and scale of agglomeration economies, including in Australian cities. It examines whether city size affects productivity, and whether economic productivity, city size and rising housing costs are interdependent.

African population growth will add to traffic woes

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Economic Productivity ◽  
The Road ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Exponential Population Growth ◽  
Ssa Countries

Significance The twin processes of urbanisation and middle class growth have driven a rapid increase in vehicles on the road, leading to gridlock in many cities across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Excessive traffic on the continent undermines economic productivity by abbreviating work hours, increasing transit costs and contributing to a range of environmental and health problems. Impacts Projected exponential population growth in SSA will add pressure to already-strained urban infrastructure. Lack of law enforcement, poor roads and reckless driving will likely keep SSA countries among the most dangerous for driving. Radical measures to relocate populations away from urban centres would face stiff resistance.

scholarly journals Population growth and mobility in Australia: implications for housing and urban development policies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amity James ◽  
Steven Rowley ◽  
Amanda Davies ◽  
Rachel Ong ViforJ ◽  
Ranjodh Singh
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Population Mobility ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Actual Growth ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
Housing And Urban Development ◽  
Urban Development Policy

This research tracks Australia’s population growth over the period 2006–16 to examine how actual growth differed from projected growth. It also examined key drivers of population mobility in Australia to inform future urban development policy responses to demands on infrastructure and housing.

scholarly journals A New Approach to Sustainable Development Solution for Global Climate Change Problem

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serdar Altınok ◽  
Emine Fırat ◽  
Esra Soyu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Economic Productivity ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Change Problem

Globalization notion is encountered not only economically, but also politically, culturally, technologically and ecologically. Environmental problems seen national at first glance can cause regional and subsequently global problems. Climate changes create regional, social and economic problems in terms of effects thereof. Many factors such as continuation of rapid population growth, proliferation of water problems, increase of global warming and irrevocable habits of countries can lead to world pollution and impairment of environment. Industrialization, population growth and excessive consumption tendency on the one hand and need for balanced use of natural sources such that energy can meet needs of future generations on the other hand has rendered “environment” and “development” subjects substitute for each other. While increase of welfare and happiness of people are aimed with economic development, socio-economical costs caused by global climate change threaten this welfare cycle. A variety of sources extinct due to global warming and some of them cannot be effectively used in a desirable level. This situation prevents economic productivity. Global climate change problem should be reevaluated with not only conventional sustainable development approach but also in a global plane containing new political ecology notions such as “environmental justice” and “climate justice”. For this purpose, each of us has a role to play and also, novel law and policies are required that will lead global-scale solutions. In this study, relationship between global climate change and sustainable development approach will be handled within the scope of a new tendency.

Compact cities and economic productivity in Mexico

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (10) ◽  
pp. 2080-2097
Author(s):  
Paavo Monkkonen ◽  
Jorge Montejano ◽  
Erick Guerra ◽  
Camilo Caudillo
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Agglomeration Economies ◽  
Urban Spatial Structure ◽  
Economic Productivity ◽  
National Economic ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Service Sectors ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Policy Agendas

This paper examines the contingent nature of agglomeration economies. Existing empirical evidence that compact cities are more productive is mostly from countries and regions with highly productive service sectors, such as the USA or Europe. We hypothesise that this relationship will differ in countries where land-intensive manufacturing activities are more productive than services. In this paper, we test this hypothesis using data from the 100 largest cities in Mexico in 1990, 2000 and 2010. Under a number of specifications, we find that the most common measures of urban compactness are, in fact, negatively associated with economic productivity. This holds even when instrumenting urban spatial structure with the underlying geology of urban areas. The findings suggest a need for greater attention to national economic structure in the study of agglomeration economies, and that policy agendas focused on compact urbanisation take account of the needs of the manufacturing sector.

scholarly journals Population, Migration and Climate Change

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-96
Author(s):  
Ekawati Sri Wahyuni ◽  
Sri Hartini Rachmat ◽  
Dina Nurdinawati
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Global Analysis ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Population Migration ◽  
Disaster Data ◽  
Permanent Migration ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Migration Type ◽  
National Disaster

The objective of this research is to explain how climate change affects and is affected by population growth and migration.  The global analysis will then be followed by a specific study in Indonesia on the relation between population migration and natural disaster events. The research method used a secondary data analysis based on literature review, the 2015 Inter-Census Population Survey (SUPAS) data and 2013 disaster data. To reduce greenhouse gas emissions and ensure the sustainability of the planet's earth, there are three things that should be done, namely to reduce the pace of population growth, to change the pattern of consumption of natural resources, and to increase Earth's carrying capacity by using technologies and innovations. Migration is mostly caused by economic needs, while migration due to disaster events is very small. Migration data records permanent migration type, while the disaster-affected population usually migrates on the temporary bases. The BPS-Statistics Indonesia and the National Disaster Management Authority should have some agreement on defining disasters, including climate change induced-disasters, and on how to collect and store data on the number of people impacted by each of them.  

scholarly journals Tracing the Evolution of Agglomeration Economies: Spain, 1860–1991

2018 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia ◽  
Alfonso Díez-Minguela ◽  
Julio Martinez-Galarraga
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Agglomeration Economies ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Initial Population ◽  
District Population

Using district population in Spain between 1860 and 1991, recorded approximately every decade, this article examines whether initial population affects subsequent population growth. While such a relationship between these two variables hardly existed during the second half of the nineteenth century, this link increased significantly between 1910 and 1970, although this trend was abruptly interrupted by the Civil War and the autarkic period that followed. The intensity of this relationship decreased in the 1970s, a process that continued during the 1980s. Our findings also stress that agglomeration economies were stronger in medium-size districts, especially from 1960 onwards.

Trends in the Relationship between Urbanisation and Development in Africa

1979 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 687-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen A. Laidlaw ◽  
Edward G. Stockwell
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Third World ◽  
Partial Explanation ◽  
Economic Productivity ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The Relationship

It can be suggested that the ‘economic development’ of most Third-World nations today will be reflected in two distinct but interrelated processes: (1) a rise in economic productivity and in real incomes, and (2) a reduction in fertility and a corresponding slowing down in the rate of population growth.1 Historically, an increase in both the number of cities in a country and the number and proportion of the population living there, has been closely associated with both these processes. Accordingly, as urbanisation proceeds in Africa it might logically be assumed that economic growth and demographic modernisation are also taking place. It is our purpose in this brief article to offer a partial explanation for the fact that this historical association has not characterised recent trends in the continent.

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