The population models used in this study show that depopulation was possible, assuming a steady emigration rate.
Rural depopulation was, then, a feature of the area reversed only by an exceptional circumstance like the advent of the coal industry.
Rather than worrying about running short of resources to support our ballooning populations, many experts now view world depopulation as our most urgent issue.
On the day of depopulation, we determined which ear tag colour group would be necropsied on farm and which at the abattoir.
The subsequent decade was a period of great upheaval, which was characterised by rural depopulation and the gradual 'urbanisation' of rural communes.
How far had they moved and, vitally for questions about the nature of rural depopulation, what kind of destination had they moved to?
Villages suffer from depopulation, agriculture is neglected and the cities are full of the unemployed.
Rural depopulation in the late fourteenth century is likewise blamed on a shortage of cash.
