GEO
101 World Human Geography
Spring 2011
Lecture Outline
Matters!
Population, Resources, and Poverty
Before Lecture
Reading assignment for today:
Greiner pp.78-80
Important Concepts from the textbook you should review
before lecture (write a short definition):
population ecology, Malthus, arithmetic growth, geometric growth, positive
checks, preventive (negative) checks, Neo-Malthusians, carrying capacity,
cornucopian theory, food insecurity,
Part Two: Malthus, Marx, and Others on Population, Resources, and Poverty
Malthus Essay on the Principle of Population published 1798
Who was Malthus?
What did he say?
- Population growth faster than resource growth
- This leads to overpopulation
- Consequences of overpopulation
- "Checks" on population growth needed (and inevitable)
- Positive checks
- Preventive (or negative) checks
- Different checks for rich and poor
Critiques of Malthus
- Neo-Malthusian views
- Marx’s Critique of Malthus
- The problem is surplus population not overpopulation
- Critiques of Marx?
- Malthus, Marx and concepts of Nature
- Cornucopian Arguments
Feminist Arguments
Declining Birth Rates
After Lecture
What was the main point of today's lecture?
Important concepts covered in this lecture (write a short
definition):
One thing I did not fully understand today is:
What did I learn today that I did not know before?