Changing Human Populations in Post-Soviet Kamchatka: An Integrated Study of Shifts in Fertility and Net Population

• Main Author: Hitztaler, Stephanie K.
• Other Authors: School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1115, Ann Arbor
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. 2004
• Subjects: Geography; Public Health/Gesundheitswesen; Population Economics; Sociology; Community & Environmental Psychology; Population Decline; Resources; Population Growth Rate; General Fertility Rate; Indigenous Fertility; Post-Soviet Period; Kamchatka Peninsula; Early (But Low) Fertility; Demography; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Population and Demography; Science; Social Sciences; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/43505; https://doi.org/10.1023/B:POEN.0000036484.29688.d4

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