Population and resources 1
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- Created on: 21-04-14 13:29
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- How and why does the number and rate of growth of population vary over space and time?
- Natural Increase
- Natural increase is the increase or decrease in population without human intervention
- Defined as B.R-D.R+ Net Migration
- B.R is number of children born per 1000 per year
- Net migration is net number of people entering/ leaving per year
- 2% or more is high
- Social factors of pop change
- Status of women
- Cultural norms
- Health
- Religion
- Education
- Age of marriage
- Economic factors of pop change
- Economic structure
- Level of industrialisation
- Career aspirations
- Political factors of pop change
- Status of women
- Population management
- Migration
- Effect of pop on resources
- Overpop leads to a strain on resources and technology, and often overexploitation
- Underpopulaiton leads to less efficient or misuse of resources in an area
- Neo-Malthusianism states that more people=less resources per person, and therefore pop decrease
- Resource optimists say an increased demand leads to better technology and supply
- Bangladesh
- Pop of 155 million
- Widespread poverty and unemployment
- However, improvements in healthcare and education
- Massive overpopulation- Density of 1034 per km squared
- However, F.R has fallen from 7 in 1970 to 2.4 today
- However, economy is growing
- U.K
- Tax breaks and better maternal/paternal packages
- Immigration accounts for 2/3 of pop increase
- Net migration rose from 61000 to 200000 from 2000 to 2007
- Pop increase in recent years
- Total pop growth rate is 0.8%
- Recent increase largely due to migration from EU
- Philippines
- Fertility rates remained high
- Government has blamed influence of relgion
- More likely to be low economic growth, lack of education, and unemployment
- Natural Increase
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