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Research Progress on Spatial Demography

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Demographic research involves the study of demographic processes and outcomes that take place in space. As space is an important element of demographic research, a number of scholars have begun studying demographic issues from the spatial perspective since last century and achieved progress to some extent, while the concept of Spatial Demography hasn’t emerged until 2007. With the continuous improvement of computer and spatial analysis technology based on GIS, Spatial Demography has gained booming development to sophistication and systematism. After elucidating the origin and development of Spatial Demography, this study systematically reviews recent research progress on Spatial Demography from the perspectives of differentiation and isolation, birth and death, migration and urbanization, regional population forecast, population and the environment, as well as spatial analysis technique and its application, thus providing an outlook of the future of Spatial Demography, which will present some enlightenment for the development of Spatial Demography.

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China (grant number 17ZDA055) and the National Academy of Innovation Strategy (grant number CXY-ZKQN-2019-041).

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  1. School of Government, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Hengyu Gu & Tiyan Shen

  2. School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China

    Xin Lao

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Gu, H., Lao, X., Shen, T. (2020). Research Progress on Spatial Demography. In: Ye, X., Lin, H. (eds) Spatial Synthesis. Human Dynamics in Smart Cities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52734-1_10

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