Search results for: URBANIZATION

• Demography 2024/2025

  e-Learning Courses

  • M. Kuc-Czarnecka

  Discover how global demographic changes shape economic and social values across regions. This course explores population trends, demographic structures, and their volatility, providing insights into factors like migration, mortality, and urbanization. Learn to analyze demographic data, create projections, and understand key concepts like the demographic transition. Discuss current challenges, such as China's one-child policy and...

• Forest management

  e-Learning Courses

  • S. Klisz

  The last ice age ended in Scandinavia about 15 000 years ago. The land was gradually occupied by present tree species. Human settlement followed the vegetation. The first forest uses were hunting and gathering. Animal husbandry and forest grazing came later. Shifting cultivation was a wide spread form of agriculture, especially in Sweden and Finland. Wood was first used for domestic purposes and for construction, In the 18th century,...