Spatial Dynamics of Human Populations:  Some Basic Models

Robert A. Hanneman
(robert.hanneman@ucr.edu)
Department of Sociology
University of California, Riverside

Jason Martinez
California State University
San Bernardino

Ray Holguin
CHASS College Computing
University of California, Riverside

2005

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• Single-Population Spatial Dynamics
• Fertility, Mortality, Carrying Capacity, and Migration
• Hunting and Gathering: Predator-Prey Interactions
• Game of "Life" models of infection/diffusion; mutualism/competition
• Schelling's residential segregation model
• Turchin's spatial dynamics of political communities