Department of Social Policy and Social Work

University of Oxford

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Dr Sylvie Dubuc

Position:
Research Fellow
Telephone (+01865):
(2)70349
Email Address:
sylvie.dubuc@socres.ox.ac.uk

Personal Info

Sylvie Dubuc joined the department as a research officer in 2006. Her previous work focused on quantitative studies of population dynamics in space and time and their links with the economy, society and the environment. During her thesis at the Geography Department of Paris Sorbonne she analysed the processes of depopulation and repopulation and their geographical patterns in a low density region in her native France with emphasis on the impact of urban dynamics and rural-urban relationships. During her post-doc research in India, she investigated demographic factors as a potential environmental pressure indicator. She is now focusing on demographic trends with emphasis on projections of ethnic groups in the UK. She has identified a rise in the sex-ratio of births to India-born mothers in England and Wales. Her current interest includes studies on the demographic manifestation of and factors related to son preference, seen in South and East Asia. In 2007 she was awarded an ESRC Grant to study 'Demographic characteristics and projections of ethnic minority and religious groups'.

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Publications

  • Dubuc, S. & Coleman, D. A. (2007) 'Recent changes in sex ratio at birth in England and Wales: evidence for sex selective abortion by India-born immigrant mothers?' Population and Development Review 33, 2, pp 383-400
  • Dubuc, S (2005) A GIS Based Analysis of the Human Factors in the Deforestation Process in India The Bulletin of the Society of Cartographer Vol. 39, UK
  • Dubuc, S (2005) Transport cost analysis and optimal location model GIS Planet 2005 Conference, Estoril, Portugal
  • Dubuc, S (2004) Rural Dynamism: the effect of small towns Review I'Espace géographique, No 1, pp 69-85, Montpellier, France
  • Dubuc, S (2003) Human factors of environmental pressure on forest canopy: a case study in Western Ghâts (India) Research report, French Institute of Pondicherry, India 55 p
  • Dubuc, S (2001) The Geographical factors of rural dynamism: a case study in the Aveyron and the Lozère PhD thesis, Denise Pumain (dir.), Paris I-Sorbonne University, France, 333 p
  • Dubuc, S.  (1999) The dynamics of rural areas outside the influence of the large cities: the case of the Aveyron and the Lozere in A multi-scalar investigation into the dynamics of land abandonment in Southern France In van der Leuuw (ed.) Policy-relevant models of the natural and anthropogenic dynamics of degradation and desertification and their spatio-temporal manifestations, Report of the ARCHAEOMEDES II European research programme (1996-1999), Volume 5
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