Changing Human Populations in Post-Soviet Kamchatka: An Integrated Study of Shifts in Fertility and Net Population
We expect population changes to be closely tied to resource abundance or scarcity. Here, I demonstrate a clear relationship between the widespread socio-economic crisis of the post-Soviet period and declining population patterns in central Kamchatka. These broad patterns, however, vary among populat...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc.
2004
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/43505 https://doi.org/10.1023/B:POEN.0000036484.29688.d4 |
Summary: | We expect population changes to be closely tied to resource abundance or scarcity. Here, I demonstrate a clear relationship between the widespread socio-economic crisis of the post-Soviet period and declining population patterns in central Kamchatka. These broad patterns, however, vary among populations, reflecting particular interlinked socio-economic, ecological, and historical conditions. More dramatic decline is observed in areas where the socio-economic crisis has coincided with a local natural resource crisis. Analyzing population shifts in the context of local circumstances, this paper corroborates the link between resource conditions and changes at the family level. Peer Reviewed http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43505/1/11111_2004_Article_489377.pdf |
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