The view that when population grows it encourages technological changes that produce increases in output, ensuring that living standards can be maintained for the growing population.
Boserupian theory
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Energy sources that provide an alternative to fossil fuels e.g. solar power
Alternative energy
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Fixed amount. For example, oil is a finite resource.
Finite
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The total wealth created within a country, divided by its population.
Gross Domestic Product
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A measure of development that uses four economic and social indicators to produce an index figure that allows countries to be compared.
Human Development Index
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The view that population growth is the main reason why a society would collapse, mainly due to lack of food.
Malthusian theory
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Once these resources are used up, they cannot be replaced, because it will take millions of years for them to form again. They are also known as finite resources as they exist in a fixed amount.
Non-renewable resources
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These will never run out because they renew themselves. They are infinite resources.
Renewable resources
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The ability to keep something (such as quality of life) going at the same level. From this stems the idea that the current generation of people should not damage the environment in ways that will threaten future generation’s environment (or quality o
Sustainability
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A society with an attitude to consumption that pays little attention to the need to recycle.
Throw-away society
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Unable to be kept going at the same rate or level.
Unsustainable
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Card 2
Front
Energy sources that provide an alternative to fossil fuels e.g. solar power
Back
Alternative energy
Card 3
Front
Fixed amount. For example, oil is a finite resource.
Back
Card 4
Front
The total wealth created within a country, divided by its population.
Back
Card 5
Front
A measure of development that uses four economic and social indicators to produce an index figure that allows countries to be compared.
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