Rural population growth in Sweden in the 1990s: Unexpected reality or spatial-statistical chimera?

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 171-185

  Amcoff, Jan ^a  

^a Institute for Futures Studies   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Counterurbanisation; Reclassification; Rural population; Urban localities; Urban spillover

Indexed keywords

CHIMERA; POPULATION GROWTH; RURAL POPULATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 33744476404     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.407     Document Type: Article

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