Racial disparities exist in disaster response, cleanup, and recovery. Race plays out in survivors' ability to rebuild, obtain loans, and locate housing. Low-income and people of color disaster...More
All organizations -- businesses, government agencies, and even individuals -- face location and relocation decisions; where to open a new store, where to build a new factory, where to locate a...More
Advances in technology have made widespread and detailed data gathering easier, resulting in a deluge of statistics on subjects as diverse as literacy rates, military spending, overweight...More
All organizations businesses, government agencies, and even individuals face location and relocation decisions: where to open a new store, where to build a new factory, where to locate a new...More
Applied demography is clearly evolving as its practitioners become involved in the emerging trends of the 21st century. Databases, substantive issues and methodological approaches seldom...More
Seeking to demystify the census and explaining the potential of GIS for understanding people, places, and local economies, this guide explains how GIS can significantly ease data management,...More
Ronald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a controversial claim. It...More
A controversial argument that reduced fertility and global aging threaten world prosperity, jeopardize national economies, and will change our way of life for decades to come. Overpopulation has...More
Is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River? Will California soon hold the balance of power in Mexican national politics? Will Latinos reinvigorate the U.S....More