Until recently, the world has been preoccupied with over-population, pressure on resources, alarming growth rates, fertility and unemployment. Issues like reduction in population growth rate, increasing longevity, the greying population, reducing fertility rates and overall depopulation have not been considered seriously. Depopulation has led to redistribution. Further, the world economy forces women to choose between career and child. COVID-19 has further aggravated the situation. It appears that population processes are smooth with no major upheavals. But, if we delve deeper, we will find undercurrents happening concurrently which contribute towards population composition. These undercurrents have been swift and cannot be captured by decadal censuses. Hence, one has to depend on alternative sources. Surprisingly, the electronic media has become quite sensitive to population issues. In this book, an attempt has been made to understand these issues differently.
Dr Prithvish Nag was the Vice-Chancellor of the Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith University, India, Director of the National Atlas & Thematic Mapping Organisation, India, and Surveyor General of India. He was also a recipient of the Commonwealth Geographical Bursary and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He was the UN Consultant on Census Mapping in Oman: and the Chairman and a Member of the International Cartographic Association and International Geographical Union Commissions on Population respectively. He has been the author and editor of about 81 books and over 135 research papers, including Census Mapping Survey, Population, Settlement & Development in Zambia, Geography of India, Population Geography, Digital Remote Sensing and Transformation of Survey of India. At present, Dr Nag is the Director of the SHEPA Group of Educational Institutions in Varanasi, India.Dr Amrita Paul is Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Geography in Belda College, Vidyasagar University, India. She has contributed to 11 research papers and co-authored a book.
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