GEOG 1HB3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Population Connection, Ecumene, Economic Geography
27 Jun 2013
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Agricultural density: the number of rural residents per unit of agriculturally productive land; a variant of physiological density that excludes urban population. Carrying capacity: the maximum population numbers that an area can support on a continuing basis without experiencing unacceptable deterioration; for humans, the numbers supportable by an area"s known and used resources- usually agricultural ones. Chain migration: the process by which migration movement from a common home area to a specific destination are sustained by links of friendship of kinship between first movers and second followers. Channelized migration: the tendency for migration to flow between areas that are socially and economically allied by past migration patterns, by economic and trade connections, or by some other affinity. Cohort: a population group unified by specific common characteristic, such as age, and subsequently treated as a statistical unit during their lifetimes. Counter migration: the return of migrants to the regions from which they earlier emigrated.
