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GEO 260, Spring 2006
Population and the Environment

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Reading to be done before Class: CES pp. 127-137
Come to class with a basic familiarity with the following concepts and ideas: Come to class with a basic understanding of the following ideas and concepts: Doubling time, exponential population growth, population density, carrying capacity, demography, total fertility rate, rate of natural increase, crude birth rate, crude death rate, growth rate, population pyramid, age structure, demographic transition, replacement level fertility

Population and the Enviornment

Population Trends and Geographical Patterns

  • How many people are there?
  • Population Distributions
  • Population Density

Population and Resources

  • Carrying Capacity
  • Easter Island (Diamond)
  • The Tragedy of the Commons (Hardin)
  • Malthus and Overpopulation


The Demographic Transition

 

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