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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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