GEOG 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Population Momentum, Mortality Rate, Demographic Transition
26 Apr 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
2 revolutions: agricultural < 10 000 ybp. Most future growth will occur in the developing world. Max population that can be supported on the given resource base, with a given level of technology *look at graph* Malthus assumes a more or less fixed or finite carrying capacity. Carrying capacity is culturally defined, not ecologically defined. Inverts malthus theory that food supply limits population. Argued agricultural methods depend on the size of the population. In times of population pressure, people find ways to increase food production by increasing workforce, machinery, fertilizers, etc. The average number of children that would be born to each woman if during her child bearing years she bore children at the current year"s rate. 2. 1 is the replacement rate for a country with low infant mortality (i. e usa, canada) Fertility = expected number of children (based on averages), while.
