GEOG 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ecological Footprint, Resource Depletion, Thomas Robert Malthus
24 Jul 2018
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Scarcity inputs and outputs in terms of sustainability supply and demand for natural resources. Ecological assets population requirements for those assets . B timeline population growth upon appearance of technology farming medicine fertility rates are dropping : education of women not as much farming labor. Malthus ( 1798 ) population grows exponentially resources grow linearly. Carrying capacity corrections to rapid population growth disease famine. Welfare programs facilitate population growth among the poor . Commons population tragedy self interest in an open - access. Commons leads to ruin positive vs. negative utility collective action vs. free riding. Mass transportation ( buses ) hope that everyone does it you don"t do it. Closed vs . open access ( type of property right regime ) . Hardin "s solution mutual coercion mutually agreed upon education , then regulation ) population vs. quality of life . 1980 : one child policy adopted . minorities were exempt.
