Thursday, September 2 / 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM   •   Room HS32

Session 37:
Spatial redistribution of population in European countries

Chair: Tiit Tammaru, University of Tartu

  1. A ‘recipe for depopulation’? School closures and regional population decline in Saxony • Bilal Barakat, Vienna Institute of Demography

  2. The comeback of the central city in Southern Europe: population growth and sociodemographic change in the Spanish urban cores • Antonio López Gay, Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED) ; Joaquin Recaño Valverde, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

  3. (Withdrawn) Why are people in their early middle-age years moving to rural areas in the 2000s? • Matti Saari, Statistics Finland

  4. Changes and recent patterns in internal residential migration in the Czech Republic, 1989-2007 • Jana Vobecka, Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

  5. Re-urbanisation in Eastern-Germany: a controversial debate inbetween emphatic theories and rigged up data • Bernhard Koeppen, Universität Koblenz-Landau ; Ralf Mai, Federal Institute for Population Research, Germany ; Claus Schloemer, Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung (BBSR)

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