De Castro, Marcia Caldas. "Spatial Demography: An Opportunity to Improve Policy Making at Diverse Decision Levels." Springer Science+Business Medi 2007 (September 6, 2007): 477-503.
Voss, Paul R. "Demography as a Spatial Social Science." Springer Science+Business Media 2007 (September 25, 2007): 457-71.
This readings was merely suggestion of how history plays a huge role on spatial demography and the importance of this. I believe it has a great role as we need to understand how our population lives and with birth rates and mortality rates. However my concern lies with how it will be used. Id rather it use for the good, but at same time it can have negative results. It was good to see a table but I wish there were examples of how each one is being used. Being a visual person, and potential planner, will I use all these tools or are they used for research only?
I like to think that with Geography major, I am growing into this field I have been able to start the “ability to think spatially” as Castro was saying, I want to see the meaning of recent events such as recession that affected our economy. How does the role of recession help migration, especially in the “new south,” as many northerners moving here in droves since 2000 census. Even the latest low levels of crime, is it because of policing or is it because people are out actively looking for jobs? Just some thoughts...
How would policy making play in a role, for instance social security, many politicians don’t dare to touch the topic but we know the system needs to be taken care of?
How radical are we becoming taking from traditional models of quantitative demography?
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