Actuality of Phenomena and Processes in the Population Development on Regional and Global Level in the Works of Vojislav S. Radovanovic

• Main Authors: Milena Spasovski, Danica Šantić
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography 2015-10-01
• Series: Демографија
• Subjects: Antropogeography; Population geography; migration; world; population; density
• Online Access: http://demografija.gef.bg.ac.rs/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/5.-M.-Spasovski-D.-Santic.pdf

The aim of this paper is to review the actuality of selected phenomena and processes of population development in the context of specific topics in the work of Vojislav S. Radovanovic, through the presentation of the demographic development of the world, continents, major regional entities and examples of countries. Famous Serbian anthropologist in the mid-twentieth century with lot of knowledge pointed out the necessity of developing new scientific theories, methods and techniques of population studies, as well as the new distinctive effects of social, economic, health, cultural and other lines of development, which will affect the transition directions of the elements of natural regeneration and spatial mobility of the population, the transformation of the population structure and model of deployment and redistribution of population. Population geography was developed from Antropogeography after Second World War. Modern Population geography has a wide range of topics and is theoretically grounded in modern general and specific, modern scientific methodology. The most important topics of the modern world impose on the links between population and resources, refugees and asylum seekers, causes and consequences of international migration, the implications of biological depopulation and low fertility levels at one and expanded reproduction, population expansion and an increase in working-age population, accelerated aging population in certain national and regional levels, large disparities in morbidity and mortality, as well as challenges related dispersion and concentration of the population, along with other issues and problems of demographic development.