Contents // 1 Introduction: Population Decline... 1 // 1.1 Population Decline, a New Approach... 1 // 1.2 A Preview on the Rest of the Book... 3 // 2 Demographic Changes... 7 // 2.1 Population Decline and Low Fertility... 7 // 2.2 Population Decline and Ageing... 9 // 2.3 Global and European Trends... 10 // 2.4 Case Study: The Dutch Situation... 14 // 3 Growth and Decline... 19 // 3.1 Growth in the Nineteenth Century... 19 // 3.2 Uncontrolled Development, Planning, and Decline... 21 // 3.3 Population Decline: From Scarcity to Surplus... 23 // 3.4 Bridging and Concentration... 25 // 3.5 Planning Without Plans... 26 // 4 The Geography of Population Decline... 29 // 4.1 Mobility Between City and Countryside... 29 // 4.2 From Rural Migration to Boomerang Migration... 32 // 4.3 Exogenous or Endogenous Development?... 33 // 4.4 Fragmentation of Expanding Worlds... 35 // 4.5 The Silent Revolution in the Countryside... 37 // 5 Policy Reactions on Population Decline... 39 // 5.1 Trivialising: The Numbers Are Incorrect... 39 // 5.2 Countering: We Are Not Going to Let that Happen... 41 // 5.3 Managing: Learning How to Deal with It... 42 // 5.4 Utilising: More for Fewer People... 44 // 5.5 Towards a Decline Policy of Managing... 45 // vii // Contents // viii // 6 Population Decline and Society... 47 // 6.1 Explanations for Population Decline... 48 // 6.2 Population Decline and Social Capital... 49 // 6.3 Institutions and Networks... 51 // 6.4 Government, Market, and Citizens... 52 // 6.5
Population Decline: Hard and Soft Sides... 55 // 7 Population Decline and Quality... 57 // 7.1 Population Decline and Physical Quality... 58 // 7.2 Population Decline and Ecological Quality... 59 // 7.3 Population Decline and Economic Quality... 60 // 7.4 Population Decline and Social Quality... 62 // 7.5 Population Decline and Cultural Quality... 63 // 7.6 Population Decline and Political Quality... 65 // 8 Creative with Population Decline... 69 // 8.1 The Region of Daily Life... 69 // 8.2 Farewell to Narrow-Minded Politics!... 72 // 8.3 Liveable Without Facilities... 73 // 8.4 A Re-use of Human and Social Capital... 75 // 8.5 Transition and System Innovation... 78 // 9 Managing Population Decline Well... 79 // 9.1 Six Statements on Population Decline... 79 // 9.2 Population Decline, a New Way of Thinking... 81 // References // 83