What is the benefit of analysis, and forecasting, of population change on the northwest coast of North America in relation to other parts of the world?

• End of European expansion and beginning of contraction
• Horizontal networks to vertically integrated hierarchies
• Character and nature of individuals and communities
• Conflict, cooperation compromise
• Migration of People/ Migration of Ideas
• Innovation
• Resistance
• Adopters
• Changes in Inter racial relations
• Inter racial marriage
• Human Rights
• Inter racial conflict
• Sterilization
• Separation / Apartheid
• Eugenics
• Core / Periphery, and Urban / Rural interactions
• Refinement of raw resources
• Industrialization and Manufacturing
• Transportation
• Settlement patterns
• Impacts of population on the environment and impacts of environment on population.
• Boom and bust economic cycles
• Building: residential and non residential
• Attitudes on development and environmental protection
• Ageing communities and Age dependency ratios
• leads Canada, providing insight into how the rest of Canada, North America and Europe and the world will look and act in the future.
• high turn over versus stable
• gross migration versus net migration
• communities with high turn over (including those with high median age) positively correlated with weaker social networks and higher use of public and private services.
• Migration policies
• Labour versus international in-migration policies
• Measuring indicators of general social well being
• Infant Mortality Rates
• Measuring social and economic integration.
• Metropolitan Influence Zones