How the Dutch deal with demographic decline
For the past few years, there has been much attention paid to demographic decline in the Netherlands. Initially, the shrinkage of an area’s population was considered as a marginal phenomenon in the peripheral regions, such as Limburg, Groningen and Zeeland. However, now, it is recognized as an omnipresent phenomenon. According to the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, up to 2030 a quarter of the Dutch municipalities will experience a population decline of more than 2.5% (PBL 2014). Furthermore, this decline will not remain limited to areas on the edges of the Netherlands. For example... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Conference paper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2015 |
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Linköpings universitet
Centrum för kommunstrategiska studier – CKS |
Schlagwörter: | Human Geography / Kulturgeografi |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27027050 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-152747 |
For the past few years, there has been much attention paid to demographic decline in the Netherlands. Initially, the shrinkage of an area’s population was considered as a marginal phenomenon in the peripheral regions, such as Limburg, Groningen and Zeeland. However, now, it is recognized as an omnipresent phenomenon. According to the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, up to 2030 a quarter of the Dutch municipalities will experience a population decline of more than 2.5% (PBL 2014). Furthermore, this decline will not remain limited to areas on the edges of the Netherlands. For example, villages within the Randstad conurbation are already having to deal with that now. There is also a demographic decline in the large cities such as Rotterdam and Almere. Here, we usually see that one district is growing at the expense of another.