The purpose of this book is to examine the scale and significance of the local dimensions of these developments and the implications for central government complementing the existing literature, which focuses almost entirely on the overall national picture. It contains a set of ten original studies which demonstrate the existence of marked geographical variations in population profiles and trends and highlight the main implications and responses. The focus is primarily on those policy areas where there needs to be a local-scale mechanism for decision-making and implementation, such as education, labour recruitment, housebuilding needs, social services and health care.
Tony Champion is Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. His principal research interests lie in the monitoring and analysis of population and social change in Britain, particularly their regional and local dimensions. He is chair of the IBG Population Geography Study Group and Council member of the British Society for Population Studies.
Introduction - Tony Champion Key Population Developments and their Local Impacts Population Pyramids and Shifting Sands - Keith Dugmore Targeting Future Investments to Give the Changing British Public Their Just Deserts Migration, Places and Quality of Life - Allan Findlay and Robert Rogerson People Voting With Their Feet? The Demographic Component of Local Government Finance - Robert J. Bennett and Gunther Krebs Impacts On Resources, Needs and Budgets Population Change and Education: Schools Rolls and Rationalisation Before and After the 1988 Education Reform Act - Michael Bradford Fall-Out from the Demographic Time-Bomb - Anne Green and David Owen A Spatial Perspective On the Labour Force Effects of the "Baby-Bust" Demography and House-Building Needs - Dave King A Critique of the "Demographic Bulldozer" Scenario Going Into a Home - Anne Corden and Ken Wright Where Can an Elderly Person Choose? Healthy Indications? Applications of Census Data In Health Care Planning - John Mahon Making Waves? The Contribution of Ethnic Minorities to Local Demography - Vaughan Robinson
`This book will provide useful background reading for sixth form teachers, and individual chapters may be of specific interest to sixth formers.... suitable for undergraduates with demographic, geographical or planning interests' - Geography `Very readable, thought provoking and highly topical addition to the urban and regional planning literature. It has much to offer both the sixth former and introductory level undergraduate as well as the more seasoned researcher and practitioner' - Town Planning Review
