Daniel Courgeau, INED, France
ISBN : 9781789452501
Publication Date : December 2026
Hardcover 252 pp
170 USD
Co-publisher
The modeling of human mobility began nearly two centuries ago and has developed considerably since then, seeking to address the spatial and temporal challenges it encounters. This book reviews these advances by tracing, over time, the paradigms developed by demography: cross-sectional, longitudinal, biographical and multilevel. Geography also plays a prominent role, raising spatial questions that help advance this modeling. Finally, other human sciences are brought into this examination, including economics, history, classical and quantum physics, mathematical modeling, population genetics, artificial intelligence and philosophy. Bringing together such different epistemological perspectives has opened up and broadened the field, enabling a better understanding of human mobility. However, despite these advances, mobility continues to retain a considerable degree of unpredictability.
1. Spatial- and Temporal-scale Problems.
2. The Cross-sectional Analysis.
3. Linking Mobility Measures Over Time.
4. The Event-history Point of View.
5. Contextual Modeling, then Multilevel Modeling.
6. Theoretical Models of Mobility.
7. Spatial Dimension of Human Mobility.
Daniel Courgeau is Emeritus Research Director at INED, France. He is the author or editor of more than 25 books, published by INED, Masson, UNESCO, Clarendon Press, Colegio de México, Kluwer, Springer and others, as well as more than 250 articles.
