During the feudal Edo period (1603-1868) in Japan, the shogunate government relied for regional control on hereditary feudal barons as well as its own bakufu bureaucracy. Compared with hereditary lords, bakufu officials had shorter and uncertain tenure. Examining easily available historical data, the paper finds that regions ruled by bakufu bureaucrats are associated with (a) slower population ...

Comparative studies of urbanisation can be characterized by their emphasis on the quantitative and visual aspects of urban growth, which is amongst other things reflected in the analysis of spatial patterns and rates of urban population growth. The visual aspects relate both to the spatial realisation of the demand for urban land use and its functional variation. This emphasis can be understood...

In November 1998, Oregon residents voted on a ballot initiative called the Oregon Forest Conservation Initiative. Known in Oregon as Measure 64, its stated intent was to promote sustainable forest practices and protect forest ecosystems by restricting clearcut logging and the use of chemical herbicides and pesticides on all forestlands in the state (Oregon Elections Division 1998a). Oregon vote...

− Burkina Faso has experienced quite significant aggregate growth over the past two decades, but the economy has done a bad job in transforming that growth into poverty reduction. The key bottleneck preventing people from escaping poverty in large numbers is the still very high population growth in conjunction with the absence of major technological change in agriculture and any significant str...

Cedar Rapids, Iowa is the state's second largest and second fastest growing metropolitan area. Development in the city and its surrounding area are growing at an incredible rate exceeding the actual population growth. This is raising considerable concern among citizen groups and city officials. The Cedar Rapids area resides along the Cedar River corridor and contains abundant gallery forests th...

 In this paper the population for male of rural area in Bangladesh is predicted by using the geometric growth rate method. The predictions are computed in a three-step procedure. In the first step, the prediction are computed using an exponentail model estimated by Quasi-Newton method for the years 1974, 1981, 1991, and 2001 using the package STATISTICA. Using the cross-validation predicti...

We analyzed the effects of population density and climatic variables on the rate of population growth in the guanaco ( ), a wild camelid species in Lama guanicoe South America. We used a time series of 36 years (1977-2012) of population sampling in Tierra del Fuego, Chile. Individuals were grouped in three age-classes: newborns, juveniles, and adults; for each year a population transition matri...