DEMOGRAPHIC IMPACTS ON LANDSCAPE CHANGE - A CONCEPTUAL VIEW OF GLOBAL DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS

摘要: Demographic changes will not only impose new challenges on deve- loping regions, developed countries, and countries in transition alike but also face population without precedence during the next decades. In latter age some cases even decline by number. Related to ongoing demographic change more rural especially remote areas furthermore lose out migration urban areas, often leading an uneven sex distribution of people leaving behind. The influence economic activities such as, e.g. traditional agricultural production patterns therefore modify usage formerly landscapes. same applies urbanized where landscapes be modified incorporating them into growing agglomerations, for purposes housing, industry or transport. For this reason knowledge future developments their related impacts is crucial understanding predicting processes landscape at a whole. Thus paper presents conceptual view relationship demo- graphic based key figures major aspects projected development, contrasting with those developing regions.