The geography of population in Western Samoa
Abstract
As long ago as 1953 Glenn Trewartha in his presidential address to the Association of American Geographers complained of the neglect which population as a systematic field had suffered at the hands of geographers(Trewartha 1953, 71). The idea of this research project was formed when his words were fresh; but even now, nearly a decade later, one wonders whether his strictures do not still apply. While more work has been done in this field in recent years the urgency of the problems which population maldistribution and uncontrolled fertility are already presenting in some areas has not been matched by an urgent interest in the topic amongst geographers.