Programme

Demographic Change along the Urban-Rural Gradient

Quetelet Seminar, 7-8 November 2019,

Venue : LouvainHouse, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

8:30 - Welcome of participants

9:30 - Opening and welcoming address

9:45 - Keynote address: Deborah Balk

10:15 - Discutant: Catherine Linard

10:30 - Discussion

11:00 - Coffee break

Session 1: Gradient of urbanicity and urbanisation definition
Session Chairperson: France Guérin-Pace (INED, France)

12:30 - Lunch

Session 2: Population growth along the urban-rural gradient
Session Chairperson: Yoann Doignon (UCLouvain, Belgium)

13:30 - Isabel Pujadas, Fernando Gil-Alonso and Jordi Bayona (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain). Demographic change along the urban-rural gradient in Catalonia: Why are some (small) municipalities growing and others decreasing?
13:45 - Nubia Ruiz (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia) and Alice Amandine Beuf. Croissance démographique el expansion spatiale : des relations complexes, à partir de l'exemple de Bogotá, Cali et Villavicencio
14:00 - Marie Vandresse (Bureau Fédéral du Plan, Belgium). La prise en compte de l'intensité migratoire dans la projection des migrations internes - le cas de la Belgique
14:15 - Dieynaba Ndour (Aix-Marseille Université, France), Sébastien Oliveau (TGIR PROGEDO, France) and Yoann Doignon (UCLouvain, Belgium). Comprendre les différences de croissance de la population au regard du rapport à la ville
14:30 - Ritu Rani and Ankit Sikarwar (International Institute for Population Sciences, India). Peri-urban dynamics in India: A synergistic approach to estimate the ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate (SDG:11.3.1) at village level using census and satellite data
14:45 - Discussion

15:15 - Coffee break

Session 3: Fertility behaviours across rural & urban sectors
Session Chairperson: Philippe Bocquier (UCLouvain, Belgium)

15:30 - Mathieu Buelens (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium). Recent evolution of fertility in European metropolises
15:45 - Yoann Doignon (UCLouvain, Belgium) and Elena Ambrosetti (La Sapienza, Italy). Une approche spatiale de la baisse de la fécondité en Egypte (1960-2006)
16:00 - Bal Govind Chauhan (Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, India). Decomposing the urban- rural gap in utilization of maternal and child health care services in India: Evidence from household data
16:15 - Jitka Rychtarikova (Charles University, Czechia). Spatial or time shift in fertility change over recent decades in the Czech Republic?
16:30 - Discussion

18:00 - Dinner Cocktail

Session 4: Health behaviours across rural & urban sectors
Session Chairperson: Michel Oris (Université de Genève, Switzerland)

9:00 - Carren Ginsburg (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), Philippe Bocquier (UCLouvain, Belgium), Ashira Menashe Oren (UCLouvain, Belgium) and Mark Collinson (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa). Internal migration and its relationship to survival over a gradient of urbanicity in Sub-Saharan Africa
9:15 - Jenny Garcia (INED, France). Urban bias in Latin American causes of death patterns
9:30 - Alex Shpenev (University of Pennsylvania, United States), Has-Peter Kohler and Cristina Bicchieri. Sanitation behavior in urban and rural India: A networks and norms approach
9:45 - Ashira Menashe Oren and Bruno Masquelier (UCLouvain, Belgium). Urban-rural inequalities in mortality across age group: A systematic analysis of survey data in low- and middle-income countries
10:00 - Samuel Mwangi (Tübingen University, Germany). Understanding the root causes: Inequality in healthcare access and irregular migration
10:15 - Discussion

10:45 - Coffee break

Session 5: Changes in living arrangements across rural & urban sectors
Session Chairperson: Christine Schnor (UCLouvain, Belgium)

11:00 - Yoann Doignon, Thierry Eggerickx and Ester Rizzi (UCLouvain, Belgium). A spatio-temporal analysis of cohabitation in Belgium and France since 1970
11:15 - Hideko Matsuo and Koen Matthijs (KU Leuven, Belgium). Rural and urban differences on marriage seasonality from early 19th to early 20th century, analysis based on two provinces in Flanders
11:30 - Jaroslav Kraus (Charles University, Czechia). Spatial variability of single households in the Czech Republic: Findings from population and housing census (2011)
11:45 - Brahim Kidou (Université Ibnou Zohr, Morocco). Les inégalités spatiales du changement démographique dans la plaine du Souss-Massa (Centre Ouest marocain)
12:00 - Discussion

12:30 - Lunch

Session 6: Migration and circulation within countries
Session Chairperson: Ashira Menashe-Oren (UCLouvain, Belgium)

13:30 - Daniel Lichter (Cornell University, United States), David Brown (Cornell University, United States) and Domenico Parisi (Mississippi State University, United States). The rural-urban interface: Growth and change in small towns at the periphery of U.S. metropolitan cities
13:45 - Dinabandhu Mondal and Anuradha Banerjee (Jawaharlal Nerhu University, India). Peri-urban dynamism in India: Evidences from Kolkata Metropolis
14:00 - Maria Carella (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy), Jean-François Léger (Université Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris 1, France) and Roberta Pace (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy). Massification de l’enseignement supérieur et disparités spatiales d’accès aux fonctions de cadre en Italie et en France : faut-il continuer à encourager l’accès à l’université ?
14:15 - Ankit Sikarwar and Aparajita Chattopadhyay (International Institute for Population Sciences, India). Changing land use patterns of rural peripheries of Indian cities and its’ linkages to the environment and migration
14:30 - Discussion
15:00 - Closing remarks

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