Development implications of demographic trends and projections for an arid region:

Findlay, Allan; Maani, Mohammed

doi:10.1016/s0143-6228(99)00010-7

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“…Indeed, from a perusal of international science and social science bibliographies it is remarkable to discover that in the wake of the 2006 International Year of Deserts and Desertification the vast bulk of research papers on the population of deserts across the world continue to refer to flora and fauna, and not to human populations. Other than the joint efforts of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the International Geographic Union (IGU) and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) ,who focused their attention in 1994 on population and environment in arid regions (Clarke and Noin 1998), together with related demographic analyses in Jordan (Findlay 1998;Findlay and Maani 1999), the only other explicit focus on the human demography of arid lands occurred around the same time in Australia in relation to emerging urban issues (Parkes 1984;Parkes et al 1985). More recently the focus has moved to remote areas identified in the accessibility/remoteness index of Australia (ARIA) (Hugo 2006) and differential aboriginal and non-aboriginal population dynamics (Taylor 2003).…”

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The demography of desert Australia

2008

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In recent years, with the formation of organisations such as the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre, social science interest in the Australian desert has re-surfaced with a research emphasis that is focused on creating sustainable futures for the region. One consequence of this is a demand for detailed demographic information to allow an assessment of different quanta of need in social and economic policy, and for assessment of the impact of these in environmental policy. However, demographic analysis on human populations in the desert to date has attracted very little research attention. In this paper we begin to address this lack of analysis by focusing on the populations, both aboriginal and non-aboriginal, of the arid and semi-arid zones of Australia. We extend earlier analysis by including for the first time demographic information on the semi-arid as well as the arid zone to establish the spatial pattern of population growth within the whole desert area drawing attention to the resulting settlement structure as an outcome of prevailing social, cultural and economic conditions. By examining population structure and demographic components of population change we also present for the first time population projections for the semi-arid zone and, therefore, in combination with the arid zone, for the entire Australian desert. All of this provides a basis for considering social and economic policy implications and the nature of underlying processes that drive change in this region.

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confidence: 99%