An empty land? On population dynamics and ageing in a North European periphery

Abstract: Based on various empirical investigations, the paper examines the population trends in the peripheral areas of northern Sweden. Though the region has experienced a population decline over the last decades, the population is rather stable and several forces seem to counteract the trends of population decline. Though mobility is a salient feature of today's society, migration trends are not increasing and many people in the remote regions are tied to networks in their home regions. And since non-job related motives are less common also the peripheries may attract migrants. Further, population development is also influenced by temporary mobility, and what is here called the "second population" may be of great importance for the future of the northern peripheries. In conclusion, the most likely future population development for the northern periphery is still a slow and stable decline

Object Details

• Alternative title: Ein leeres Land? Über die Dynamik und das Altern der Bevölkerung an der Peripherie Nordeuropas
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet ; In: Europa Regional ; 16.2008 (2010) 4 ; 191-199

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2010
• Creator: Malmberg, Gunnar

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-47953-0
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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