Geography of Population and Settlements

- selected topics in the history and philosophical approaches in population geography,
- selected topics in the geography of fertility, mortality, migration, population ageing,
- modern demogeographic and geoinformation methods in population geography, population projections;
- examples of applications of population geography,
- the origins of cities and early urban civilisation,
- cities and urbanisation in Europe, North America, Australia and Oceania; common features of cities and urbanisation in the Third World; cities and urbanisation in North Africa and SW Asia, Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America,
- analysis and presentation of a scientific article on geography of population and settlements from a scientific journal of student's choice,
- involvement in at least one of the departmental scientific research projects: participation in data collection,
- teamwork on interpretation of selected results from the analysis of the scientific research, infographic presentation of a selected part of the results.

• Weinstein, J., Pillai, V. K., 2016. Demography. The science of population. Rowman & Littlefield. COBISS.SI-ID – 62477410
• Peters, G.L., Larkin, R.P., 1993. Population geography : problems, concepts, and prospects. Time Life Books. COBISS.SI-ID – 4842082
• Jones, H., 1990. Population geography. London, Paul Chapman Publishing, 321 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 566370
• Rebernik, D., 2019. Geografija naselij. Ljubljana, Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, 301 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 303015168
• Harris, R., Sleight, P., Webber, R., 2005. Geodemographics, GIS and neighbourhood targeting. New York, Wiley, 293 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 30617698
• Livi-Bacci, M., 2012. A concise history of world population. Malden, Blackwell, 271 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 51964514
• Pacione, M., 2009. Urban geography – a global perspective. London, New York, Routledge, 703 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 40680290
• Rowland, D. T., 2003. Demographic methods and concepts. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 546 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 13891558
• The dictionary of human geography. 2009. Gregory, D., Johnston, R.J., Pratt, G., Watts, M., Whatmore, S. (eds.). Wiley-Blackwell. COBISS.SI-ID – 17041672
• Cities of the World. World Regional Urban Development. 2003. Brunn, S.D., Williams, J.F., Zeigler, D.J. (eds.) Rowman and Littelfield Publishers, Inc. COBISS.SI-ID – 25346146

Other current literature available in the e-classroom.